I had instructor duty this weekend, it was nice to get a break and get out in the cold after a week of 18 hours work days. Saturday was nice with nil wind and perfect conditions to have sled rides down for the students. They did well and got 3 flights each. One student flew hanggliders until 15 years ago, and then have done paragliding in the last years. He got his first flight on our Aeros Target training glider and made a very nice takeoff and landing.
Bjørn and Jan Erik waiting for the tailwind to die
Today it was strong tailwind and fog, so no flights were possible.
In the Pre-Worlds in Oz it’s been a windy day as well, with no flying today. Brett Hazlett won the first day yesterday, with Rohan and Kraig on second and third.
The Hay Open competition have had 4 days of flying out of 6 so far.. Craig Coomber is in the lead right now, with John Jr. hot on his tail. The conditions seem to be the normal blue and inverted, while the winds have died down enough to make an out&return for task 4. Results from the Moyes website
I have planned next years season, if it all comes through it should be a good one with lots of flying.
I’ve signed up for the US Nationals in Florida in April, and might go to Bassano the week before that if there’s a competition on. After Florida there’s a few competitions in Norway, and then the Europeans in France. The Nordics and Nationals will be arranged in Vågå the last week of July. After that I will have a long break until December when the preparation to the Worlds in Australia kick off.
CompeGPS is my program of choice for displaying and working with GPS tracklogs. It’s also the program we use for scoring competitions with GPS. The developers have been very active adding new features and format support to the progam, it supports a lot of different map formats.
The latest version 5.3 have a plug-in to support the newest 3D data from the US Geological Service, with a resulution of 100×100 meters. The maps cover almost the entire planet, with the notable exception of landmass north of 61° north. A lot of our flying in Norway is done above the 61° line. (Yes we have very good thermals) I have some GPTOPO30 3D data that covers all the world, but these have 1000×1000 meter resolution.
Wishlist for 2004 – Free vector based 2 and 3D maps for Norway with 10×10 meter resolution.
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