Mönchsheide Glider Airfield

Mönchsheide Glider Airfield

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Mönchsheide Glider Airfield

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Location: Bad Breisig, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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July 16, 2022

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This is where the gliders and microlights of the Air Sports Club Mönchsheide e.V. take off and land.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

September 13, 2021

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The Mönchsheide owes its name to the former management of monks from the Marienstatt monastery in the Westerwald. At the small airport you can see many gliders on the weekends that are pulled up by a winch.

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Waldgänger

April 19, 2023

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In good weather you can admire the daredevil recreational pilots here

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View of the Vinxtbach Valley – View of the Eifel Hills loop from Bad Breisig

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Mitten am Rhein Viewpoint – Mönchsheide Glider Airfield loop from Bad Breisig

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