Norwegian Hanggliding

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I’ve been running the same look on this site for quite some years now. The gray/blue theme was something I started with way back in 1998 for the first static pages I made on my old ISP’s homepages, but I lost those pages in a harddisk chrash.
In 1999 I got my own linux server online, [...]

Originally the weekend plan was to have an aerotowing meet at Kongsvinger, but the grass strip was still to wet after snow melting. We moved the meet to Vågå since the forecast was good for Saturday. In the morning we did a briefing where we discussed the possible tasks and the best way of solving [...]

The weather deamons scored 3-0 last weekend on Frya. Fredrik and I drove to get some flying under a grey sky. We arrived at takeoff just as Sven took off. The conditions were OK, with some turbulence caused by wind shear. As we started to set up the rain came in. So we took lunch [...]

Fredrik sendt this picture of me at Rubbio takeoff the first comp day.

Sorry for the lack of updates, the Italian GSM networks still suck, so I could not connect to the internet easily. I’ve talked to Lolita at Tilly’s, and volunteered to help her set up a wireless internet zone in the hotel next year, that will make it much easier to get on the net.
This Easter [...]

A quick update, more later.
We arrived in Bassano at 04:30, did not get into the hotel and spent the night in the car. Weather was OK, so we got a 70 km task with some overdevelopment around the course. My glider had a nasty right spiral, too much to handle for me after no real [...]

We arrived in Garmish after about 18 hours on the road through Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Very good test for the road navigation part of the GPSMAP 60CS, it performed very good, and gave us directions all the way to the parking lot outside the expo in Garmish.
The free flight expo 2004 was nice, [...]

Nils Åge and I drive south to the thermals in a few hours. The plan is to drive to Innsbrück and see the Free Flight 2004 expo there (and probably buy lots of “nice to have” stuff). Then we will pick up our gliders who should arrive from Australia in München on Monday, and after [...]