Czech pilot Tomas Suchanek has flown ten flights of over 900km between November 2024 and 2 January 2025 from Narromine, Australia – and counting. More flights will be added as he makes them. So far, he has flown four flights of over 1,000km including three in a row, 30 and 31 December and 1 January. His highest scoring flight so far was 1,108km at 119kps on 1 January in a Ventus 2 scoring 1239 Weglide points.
He has mostly been flying a 15m ASW20 with some flights in a Ventus 2. His first flight of the season was in a Ventus 3T 15m, when he flew a distance of 1,178km at 124kph.
Since then, he has consistently been flying long distances from 500km to well over over 900km.
On 30 December he flew 1,040km at 125kph in a Ventus 2a. The day before he flew 972km in the Ventus 2. His longest flight in the ASW 20 was 949km at 112kph on 24 November.
Tomas has had a very strong competition career with his first major competition listed on the IGC Ranking list as WGC Buyreuth in 1999. He took 3rd place in Club Class at WGC Gawler. Since then he has won numerous European and Czech national championships and competed in many World Gliding Championships, taking 1st place in Club Class at WGC Musbach 2002.
He is currently ranked 30th competition pilot in the world. You can see his competition history at
tinyurl.com/IGC-Ranking-List
His recent Australian flights on Weglide at
tinyurl.com/Tomas-Suchanek
Tomas' highest scoring flight so far.
30 December 2024, Ventus 2a, 1,040km at 25kph, 1159 Weglide points.
