Norwegian Hanggliding

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17000 km and 26 hours later I’m back in Oslo. Wading through hundreds of email, and huge amounts of spam (Got to get the Spamasassin up and running again) It’s nice to get cold water in the tap and shower again, but I could do without the snow and freezing temperature outside. Life is a [...]

I wish it was another comp after Hay to start all over again, but now it’s time to get back home. It’s been good, but too many canceled days. Tha last day in Hay was fantastic, we had cloudbase at 3700 meters, loads of 5 m/s thermals and a long task. Just as I remember [...]

We did get to fly two days ago as the wind finally calmed down a little in the afternoon. The task was 167 km west. It turrned out the goal was in the middle of nowhere as the coordinates were wrong. I flew with Bo after the TP, conditions were OK with a strong inversion [...]

Yesterday it was blown out. We set up and waited for a long time being sandblasted in the dust and sand picked up by the gusts. Today looks pretty windy as well, we have had two briefings, and the next one at 13:00 to finally decide if we go out to the paddock. The temperature [...]

Short report before we go out to fly again, it’s been late before we get back, so I write this in the morning before we head out to the paddock.
I bombed out on task one, difficult conditions in the start of the task, where I could only get to 800 meters. I made a bad [...]

Finally we can leave the smoke filled Kiewa valley behind and get up north to the Australian National HG Championships in Hay. The last two days of the Bogong Cup was cancelled because we had nowhere to take off. All the sites facing north were on fire, and it was tail at the Pines. It’s [...]

The forecast for task 4 was that it would be northerly and unlaunchable at the Pines. But when we got there it was fine, and quite good conditions. We got a long one way task of 160 km, as the next day would surely not be flyable with strong northerly. I’m back on my old [...]

The thunderstorm that passed on the second day set off lots of fires to the areas around Mount Beauty. The Emu launch has been burning, Buffalo is on fire, and there’s a huge fire near Falls Creek just up the valley. The Corryong cup have also been threatened by the fires, last we heard the [...]

We arrived in Mount Beauty and found a great place to stay, a big house with large kitchen and apartement units. We met up with our driver Carla who drove up from Melbourne on her motorbike. After a disorganized practice day we went up to Emu and had a really nice evening flight. I took [...]

Task 4 saw a great sky, cumulus streets forming all over the flats. We got a triangle task a little over 100 km, stronger that expected headwinds on the last leg would make it very difficult to make goal, and only 4 flex and 2 rigid made it, I never made it out of the [...]