Norwegian Hanggliding

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A rather slow weekend in Oslo, I had to work and could not go flying in the great conditions during the week. Saturday I worked for a few hours. Bjørn H went to Ringerudkollen, but it rained there as well as in Oslo, so I stayed inside in front of the PC.
Today seemed to [...]

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There have been quite a few long flights in Vågå lately. The XC seminar have had good attendance by HG pilots, they have flown from Vole, Bøverdalen, and Heidal. Jon Gjerde did another good 110km from Bøverdalen to Tretten, and Olav Opsanger did the longest flight so far this season with 141 km from Vole [...]

Since the forecast was negative we packed up and went home before the last day. We drove through some massive overdevelopment on the way back to Oslo, huge CB with rain and hail in the whole area. I talked to Thomas on the phone and they had flown the last day, but no one made [...]

Rather cloudy and wet this morning, the briefing was postponed to 13:00 as the forecast was positive about the afternoon. At 13:00 it’s still raining, and we cancel the day. I checked the charts at http://www.wetterzentrale.de and it does not look positive for tomorrow. I guess we go home tonight unless we get a much [...]

It was still quite cloudy this morning, and quite windy. We set up to get off early to avoid the forecasted front. The task was difficult to set, with weak conditions, low cloudbase and strong winds blowing us towards controlled airspace in Västerås. I was the first pilot to take a tow at 12:20, towing [...]

Canned today, it’s been raining all day until now. There’s a blue hole in the west and the clouds are breaking up as I write this. Still there’s lots of water on the ground that need to dry up before we can have really good conditions again. The forecast for tomorrow is good, seems like [...]

Today we had nice blue skies again, with a front predicted to come in by noon. We first got a 92 km task towards the NE, but it was changed to a 55km straight line to goal at Sala. I was drawn late in the take off line, and got a tow straight through sink [...]

It was nice conditions on Saturday when we woke up and went to the airstrip, blue skies and quite windy from the west. We hung around for a while and finally set up to test the aerotowing set up. They have a very powerful and fast BMW trike here, the first tow behind it I [...]

Tonight Nils Åge and I will drive to Köping in Sweden to fly the Nordics. The competition start on Sunday and finish next Saturday, it’s an aerotow only event. I’ve never been in Köping before, but the Swedes are very positive about the flying there. The forecast for the next few days seem fine, I [...]