Naked pilot: Thomas Friedrich
Bastienne Wentzel


"I've been flying all my life. I grew up in Graz, Austria, where my dad, Willi Friedrich, ran the Flugschule Steiermark. I'm 19 years old now and I still live in the house where I grew up."

"My dad took me on my first tandemflight when I was five. I was at the training hill with him nearly every weekend and after school with my younger brother. My dad looked after us, I was groundhandling a Swing Savage 13 m2. Later I got a Gin Bolero 3. I was in heaven because it was superbig and I could do short hops with it."

...read the full interview in Cross Country magazine 216, Dec/Jan 2021.