Norwegian Hanggliding

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It was the last day of the comp, with good looking clouds early in the day. The task committee wanted us at takeoff early, to make a short final task with landing at the center. They set a 47km task, in the area in front of Salknappen takeoff, with Vole, Blåhø, Vole, Tordkampen, Vågå bru [...]

Another blue day, with moderate to strong south-east winds. Task to the north via Dombås, Lora, and back to goal at Dombås. Only two pilots made it, I landed halfway. The day seemed good around takeoff, and I just flew too agressively for what turned out to be slow conditions.

It was blue and no wind in the morning. We went first to Vole, but the wind was southeast and conditions seemed quite stable, so we drove up to Salknappen which is further up the mountain and 400 meters higher.
The task was 90 km, to Heidal, north to Otta, back south to Kvam, and to [...]

A nice day from the morning, but cirrus cover delayed the task until 14:45. We got a short task due to late takeoff and stable blue conditions. It was an out&return of 62km, from Vågå to Sjoa and back.
I wanted to fly a safe and fast task, without taking too big risks after yesterday’s loss [...]

It was grey this morning, and a layer of Cirrus clouds made the conditions very weak. The window was opened at 14:00, with a 78 km task from Vågå to Dombås, Sel, and back to Vågå. The first pilots all fell through, and we all waited for the Cirrus to break up.
At 15:15 it was [...]

By nine in the morning it was already overdeveloping, and it was some heated discussion at takeoff on what to do with the day. The weather forecast was for nice weather in the afternoon, and at 11:30 it was lots of showers around us. Eventually the decision was to open an early start window at [...]

I woke up at 06:00 and it was raining hard outside, by 9:00 the sky was blue but it was very windy. We postponed until 1:00, and then went up to Vole. It was flyable, with some showers from collapsing clouds in the area. The task of the day was the annual one way to [...]

About 35 pilots here in Vågå, including 5 Swedes. Today was forecasted rain and overdevelopment. We had a second briefing at 12:00, and decided to try to fly from Vole. The conditions gradually improved and the task committee made a 50km triangle task towards Otta, then Heidal and goal at Sørem.
I got off early, and [...]

It was a good comp! Despite some tricky weather conditions at takeoff both days we got 13 PG pilots over 100km distance, and 6 HG pilots over 100km on Friday. The main gaggle of PG pilots crossed south of Rondande mountains, they reported following a 60 km perfect working cloudstreet.
Saturday saw some pre-frontal activity with [...]

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