Christoph Barniske
Born in Stendal, Christoph started gliding at our airfield back in 1996.He was lucky to spend more than 2000h in gliders since then, participating in numerous competitions in Club-, 18m and Standardclass. Since 2015 he is flying an LS8 “8A”. At the competitions in Stendal, Christoph covered different roles in the organization, was the meteo-man and did the task-setting since 2017. He started a carreer in the internet business.
Sieghard Geyhler
Sieghard is the chairman of the AERO-Club Stendal. He was one of the founding members of our club back in 1992 at the times when the Russian airforce left the airfield. He was later appointed as the CEO of the airfield company until his retirement. Sieghard spent many hours in the cockpits of agricultural aircrafts and the Cessna of our club.
Matthias Jahn
Matthias is the CEO of the airfield company. Together with his team, he is preparing the airfield infrastructure for our event. In his previous life, Matthias was a pilot on MiG-21. Nowadays he is an active aerobatic pilot with significant experience in aerobatic competitions.
Walter Hermann
Walter worked as a weather consultant for the German airforce for 30 years. He is an active glider pilot since 1970 with more than 4,500h. During more than 40 gliding competitions he gained significant experience on all the bits and pieces of weather forecasting for glider pilots. He was the team meteorologist for the German gliding team on several occasions.