Norwegian Hanggliding

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Erik asked if I could take instructor duty for him this weekend, so saturday morning I and Pål Øyvind went to Årvoll to meet the students. The wind was way to strong to do any training, so we sent them home. I drove to Sundvollen myself to check out if it was remotely possible to [...]

Fredrik and I went flying Wednesday afternoon, it was nice weather but a front was forecasted to come in with high winds and rain. We first drove to Sundvollen, as it was westerly winds. At launch it was flyable, but too weak to soar, so we stuck to the original plan and went to Brandbukampen. [...]

Today seemed to be a good day for flying at Ringerudkollen, Bjørn J and I met up at the landing and drove up to get a flight. Bjørn wanted to try his new used Laminar for the first time, and I just wanted a flight. We did not expect more than a glide down. As [...]

Mine and Johnny’s hanggliders have arrived in Oslo, I got a call from the airport on Friday that they were ready to pick up. I had to work all day, and would be instructor for this weekends beginner hangglider course so I decided to wait until tomorrow. Fingers crossed for the gliders to be whole.
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The results from the worlds can be found at http://www.dclaveno.com/Brasilia2003/Brasilia_2003.htm The official results page seem to be non existent at the moment.
I’m killing time in Sao Paulo, deleting spam and catching up on work email. It was quiet when I left Brasilia, no hangglider cars outside the hotel, and no pilots hanging out [...]

The final day we had a gray day with a high layer of cirrus clouds, we drove out to take off and set up after waiting for a while. Cumulus clouds were building and we got a task of flying straight back to Brasilia, 72 km. I took of quite late, as the conditions were [...]