Norwegian Hanggliding

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We all went to Bøverdalen today as it was still quite windy in Vågå. We went up to Juvass and Dugurdmålskampen to fly. Sadly the strong NW winds in Vågå made it dangerous to set a open distance task for the Hanggliders as someone would fly to Vågå and end up in the turbulence. We [...]

We woke up to blue skies and some wind from the west. It quickly became clear it would be too windy to stay in Vågå, so we sent the Paragliders to Branstadkampen and we Hanggliders went to Lensmannsvangen. Some cirrus clouds spread wery quicky, and shut down the conditions, so we waited until 15:30 when [...]

We have around 25 Hangglider and 35 paraglider pilots who have entered the competition. Lots of freeflyers here as well. I would guess there’s around 70 pilots in Vågå.
The weather today was gray, and we have had a few showers. We postponed until 12:00, and then went up to Vole. It was some sun [...]

The annual Milslukern XC competition in Vågå starts tomorrow, the forecast looks very good for the weekend. Registration tonight and tomorrow morning. Make sure you catch Frode Halse’s introduction to XC flying in Vågå tonight from ca. 22:00 at the center. We have a lot of pre-registered pilots, both HG and PG.
Results will be posted [...]

I went to Hallingdal and Gol this weekend. I’ve never been flying there before, and the weather forecast looked nice enough to attempt some triangle flying. The valley have a 90 degree bend at Gol, really nice for triangle tasks. I woke up at 7 and looked out at fast developing cumulus… It did not [...]

I forgot to link to the results, http://www.kkpg.no/index.php3?id=372
No flying for me this weekend as a friend of mine is getting married and I arranged his stag party in Harstad on Saturday. He got a tandem paraglider flight and seemed to enjoy that!

Sunday arrived with traces of sun and winds from SE. It quickly became clear it would overdevelop and shut down, so we cancelled the day. Some pilots flew ridge soaring in between the showers over Frya. All in all a good comp, just too bad we only got one task out of the long weekend.

On Friday we got very unstable and good conditions. Winds from N made it difficult to decide on take off, but we finally went to Brandstadkampen and set up. It looked like it might OD, and we set a short task of 42 km straight line to goal at Lillehammer. Conditions were strong, but Robin [...]

This morning it rained hard in Oslo, so I was not in a big hurry to get going to Frya. As I drove North it gradually became better, and at Frya it was quite dry, but cloudy. We hung around for a while, about 8 pilots showed up. After lunch and lots of coffe at [...]