Cross-Country from the Engadine

St. Moritz sits at eighteen hundred metres and the mountains around it push another two thousand above that. For a cross-country pilot this geometry is a gift: the plateau acts as a warm floor, the peaks as a series of turn points, and the wind almost always sets up along the same corridor. We fly the Engadine to teach patience. A hundred kilometres from launch is not achieved by aggression but by conservation — climb high, glide long, resist the temptation to chase the sunniest slope. The pilots who complete the loop are the ones who treat the sky as a budget rather than a race.