Norwegian Hanggliding

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We woke up to the sound of thunder this morning, after getting the gliders into the rain-covers we got some heavy showers. Todays task is cancelled, the forecast is good for the next days. It’s still very warm and humid, the air does not feel unstable at all, but maybe the forecasted northerlies will bring [...]

Yesterday we got a 133km task with 4 TP, taking us north and back to the goal here at the camping. I got low into the start circle, and flew out to take the second start at 15:00 after thermalling up to 2500 meters. From there it was very good and fast to the first [...]

123 km task today, some cirrus and stabilizing conditions during the day. We got up and took the first startgate at 14:45, from there I had some troubles with getting up at the second TP, but finally got a good thermal with Nils Åge. After the third TP I did not wait for the gaggle [...]

No task today, the day was cancelled due to bad weather forecast at the morning briefing. I got Gerolf to help me tune my glider this morning, we shortened one outer carbon leading edge, and made adjustments to the tip setup, inner cocentric rings, as well as the sprogs to compensate. A lot of changes [...]

Despite the bad forecast we woke up to blue skies and no wind in the morning. We went to a south-facing takeoff just outside the city. The takeoff is quite low and it was marginal conditions in the beggining. We got a 87 km task, to the north-east via 2 TP and back south-west to [...]

Today was registration and opening parade in Millau. It’s the usual chaos, with all the teams and long speaches no one listens to. There is around 120 pilots here for the competition. The weather is getting worse and colder every day. Today was flyable, but we got some small rainshowers. A lot of the local [...]

No flying today, it was raining this morning and even though the rain ceased it has not been taskable conditions. Lars Bo (Aeros Combat L) from Denmark won the competition, Gordon Rigg (Moyes Litespeed S) on second and Steve Elkins (Avian Cheetah) on third. I felt we got good training and knowledge of the [...]

We went up to Punte takeoff, but it was way to windy to do a task. We waited until 14:00, and then the day was cancelled. We have spent the day in the pool at the camping, and swimming in the (cold) river.
Nils Aage and Johnny arrived last night, so the full team is here.
Lars [...]

We first went up to Punte takeoff, but when we were set up and ready to go the wind switched to the north and became stronger (Sound familiar?). So we all packed up and went to the Brunas takeoff, we got a 76km task with first start gate at 16:15 We took off just before [...]

Yesterday we finally got everything in order with driver, car and roofracks. We got a task from the local takeoff to the south, back north past takeoff and a little triangle back to the landing next to our camping. The forecast was good, and no rain. But as we set up it clouded over and [...]