Klaus Ohlmann
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Klaus Ohlmann (born 1952 in Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany[1]) is a German glider pilot who has established 36 world records approved by FAI. Among these is the record for a free distance flight with up to 3 turn-points by flying 3,009 km from Chapelco Airport at San Martín de los Andes (Argentina) in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM on 21 January 2003[2] with his co-pilot Karl Rabeder.[3] On 9 January 2003 at El Calafate in Argentina he made a flight of 2,247.6 km in a Schempp-Hirth Nimbus 4 DM. This set a new world free distance record, breaking the record set over 30 years earlier by Hans-Werner Grosse.[4]
On 1 February 2014, he became the first–ever pilot to fly over Mount Everest in a glider.[5]
He is a member of the Mountain Wave Project of the meteorological section of OSTIV.[1] Flying in wave conditions is his forte. Klaus lives in southern France, near Serres, Hautes-Alpes.
