Norwegian Hanggliding

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The conditions were variable during the Hjartdal Cup this weekend. Saturday was blue, and the hangglider pilots waited too long to get a good task going. Nobody made goal, and only Tommy and Johnny got to the first TP. Sunday arrived with cirrus covering up the sky, and nobody got up. Moday it rained.

We only got one task of four days in the Milsluken XC comp, sadly the weather demons did not cooperate with us this time. Tor Erik Moen won by flying 101 km from Vågå to Åndalsnes, beating Trond Olsen by 300 meters. Frode Halse won the PG class with 64 km. The same day Werner [...]

We had fantastic conditions on Saturday, the first task of Frya Cup was Frya - Otta - Frya, an Out&Return of 71.3 km. Cloudbase was at 2100 meters and strong thermals everywhere, 12 of 14 pilots completed the task, with the quickest pilots spending less than 2 hours on the task. On sunday the wind [...]