Norwegian Hanggliding

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We have had some slow days of relaxing and doing nothing, we have flown some days. The weater have been a little unstable with overdevelopment and thunderstorms in the evening. I flew two days to adjust my glider a little, and hae otherwise done nothing. Today was registration for the worlds, and we have the [...]

Day 3 was a more difficult day, it was blue and very slow at the take off, lots of pilots went down below takeoff, but few landed. Olav and I took off at the same time, I was a little to low to go in over takeoff in the thermal and flew out towards the [...]

Two good days of flying here, the first day we got a 106 km task via two TP back to Brasilia. It was a little slow in the beginning, and I got stuck on the ridge low for a while. We thought there was the normal 15 minute start gate, but after landing we learned [...]

Quick update before dinner - I´ve flown 3 days now, good conditions every day. Today I landed in goal in the center of Brasilia, quite a sight to do the final glide over skyscrapers and highways. In the centre of the city is a large square park, where we have landing space. It is still [...]