Norwegian Hanggliding

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I drove down from Vaagaa, arriving in Oslo at 03:00, and slept for a few hours before getting up at 7:30 to repack my bags. I loaded the glider box back on the car and picked up Fredrik, after 7 hours of driving through sweden in massive rain we crossed over the Oeresund bridge and [...]

More rain. Last day today, cancelled.
Weather’s been crap with 2 good days out of 8. The week before the comp was perfect, heard that one before?
On the last task Robin chrashed on landing near Otta, we do not know the details as he broke his jaw in two places and was scheduled for an operation [...]

Rain.

Yesterday we finally got some reasonable good weather, with some sun and light winds. We set a one way task to goal at Frya. I took off early, and waited in cloudbase to take a little later start time as some pilots started on course. I watched them glide for a long time, and disappear [...]

Rain, overdevelopment, more rain, canceled at 12:00 today. Unstable forecast.

The first day of the Norwegian Nationals was canned, we got overdevelopment and rain after setting up at Salknappen.
Yesterday we got perfect conditions with cloudbase above 2000 meters and weak winds. The task was set to be a 82.8km out and retur, Vole - Kvam - Otta - Vågå centre - Vågå landing. [...]

Robin emailed that it would be towing at Trøgstad on Sunday, I was at work all day Saturday, and had to get back to work on Sunday eveneing as well. I planned and declared a 50 km FAI triangle, where the flight took me northeast along the Gardermoen TA, south and back northwest to [...]

Got a nice flight from Trøgstad, declared 50 km FAI triangle.
Now sleep…

All work and no flying lately, and more to come as I’ll be upgrading a network at a customer site this weekend. We were supposed to do it last weekend, but some equipment got delayed. Today seemed like a perfect day for flying, but I was in a meeting all day. Otto and Johnny [...]