Norwegian Hanggliding

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Spring is here! Bjørn Hammer and I went up to Sundvollen this afternoon for what looked like a sledder. I got off first, found sink for a while, and flew out towards the hotel in search of thermals. Got some very weak stuff over the road and started turning in broken weak lift. It gradually [...]

Shitty weather and no flying lately. I spent last weekend at the Generalt meeting for the Hang and Paragliding organization, too bad as Sunday was a great day at Sundvollen. Yesterday was overcast, showers and SSE winds, which is quite useless. Today was forecasted windy, and it came through with too strong westerlies. Maybe tomorrow!

The forecast missed, it was gray and SW instead of sun and NNW at Sundvollen. Quite flyable though, we got nice take off conditions for the stundents. Lots of people taking flights down and going back up for another one. I flew down twice, did some testing of gliding in groundeffect along the ice. I [...]

Instructor duty this weekend, nice weather but very stable. All students got two flights each. I’ll fly tomorrow, it’s forecasted better weather, maybe even ridge soarable!

No flying lately, the weather’s been shit. Forecast for the weekend is quite good, I’ll try to get in some flying, maybe on Mjøsa. Hedemarken have their annual winch tow meet this weekend, I might go there if I can borrow a winch tow release somwhere.

I drove up to Vågå for the yearly general meeting in my club, Saturday was nice with sun from a blue sky. Sunday was grey and not very tempting to go flying. Rolf, Olav, and I got a flight from Visdal on Saturday, Stig and Herleif did set up but they were too slow to [...]