Norwegian Hanggliding

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On day 2 We got a 84km task to the South, back north past Köping and back again. The weather was a little better than the day before, with less winds. Still it was clearly going to overdevelop, so we all got ready early. I towed as number 4, but had to release just after [...]

We arrived in Köping last night, after driving trough some very strong wind and showers. Arnt got his first two tows in a calm period last night. Today it was about half the strength of yesterday, about 10 m/s, and it calmed down during the day. We set a 84km task to the south, but [...]

More wind from NW, but we went up to takeoff after the second briefing on Sunday. It was quite flyable, but it got canceled when a paraglider pilot tested the conditions and found some turbulence. It was probably the right thing to do, since it was not launchable most of the time anyway.
Monday seemed nice [...]

The winds were from the North West, and we had to go up to the takeoff on the other side of the valley here. It was windy and some lenticularis clouds on the sky. I’ve never been at the takeoff before, and the walk up there was too far and wet through the marshes. We [...]

This weekend it’s Hjardal Cup, I will travel there tomorrow morning. It will probably be a good competition unless the wind becomes too strong. The forecast is OK, but might make it difficult at the takeoff if the NW winds become strong.
The cup is for both hang and paragliders, I think it’s fun when we [...]

I’ve added some pictures from Frya Cup in the album, and all the pics from the Worlds should also be there now since someone very persuasive asked me to put it online yesterday :-) I’ve not sorted or annotated the worlds pics, that will take a while…

I had to work Thursday and Friday, so I had to skip the planned Acro course in Voss. It was overdeveloping Saturday so no flying, but the weather cleared up and I went for a bike ride around Oslo instead.
Sunday looked very promising, I was up at 8:00 to get ready to go to Ringerudkollen [...]

We got some good days flying this weekend at Frya. Hedemarken hanggliderklubb made a well arranged competition, and I think everyone had a good weekend. I drove up on Friday afternoon and met Robin at takeoff. It was clouded, but the sun broke through as we got ready, and I got a 20 minute flight [...]