Hanggliding course in Oslo

The hanggliding club in Oslo will as usual run a beginners course this fall. I have been one of the main instructors the last few years, and I will help out in this course too, but not as much as before. I have to prioritize my time differently this winter with work and the worlds in Australia coming up. I will probably do some of the first high flights with the students, as we must have two instructors present then. And it’s always fun to yell “PUSH!” in the training hill.

If you know someone who are interested in taking the course, now is the time to convince them to give it a try! Contact me or Bjørn Hammer.

I’ve set up the weblog for the course again.

Tracklogs

Some users have problems opening the IGC files in GPSDump when there is more than one day of tracklog. You can open the IGC file directly in a text editor like Notepad, and remove the lines of log from the wrong day. Save as IGC file again, not .txt.

It should then be possible to open and convert to DL format in GPSDump. You need a recent version of GPSDump, it can be downloaded from Stein Sørensen’s homepage

No Manfred in Oz, flying in Lithuania, tracklogs

Manfred Ruhmer said he would probably not go to Australia to fly the worlds when I talked to him in Millau. Now it’s confirmed according to Gerolf and the Oz report. At least there will be some competition about 1. place again.

Lihtuania
A pilot with .lt domain emailed me asking about my glider. I asked about flying in Lithuania, here’s what he wrote, would be fun to go there some day;


Yes I’m from Lithuania. We have here some active and passive winches, also airtowing trike. Usual cloudbase is abaout 1500m (varies 1000-2800m). During season paraglider pilots flies 5-7 times more than 100km (http://www.skrydis.lt/varzybos_lspsf2004.html). Hangglider pilots don’t like open distance so much as paraglider and flies mostly in competition. There are only 8 hangglider pilots in our country that can take part in competition, not every pilot have enough time, so during our championchip there are 5-7 pilots. There are only few hills 50-35 meters high where we fly in winter when there are no thermals.

Our Lithuanian open championchip usualy is in the end of spring or begining of summer (may-june), starting fee ususally is not more than 50eur (winch towing included – some lottery to get a thermal), air towing (500m) is 7-10eur after than it’s not a problem to get a thermal.
My hanggliding club is in Seduva (between Panevezys and Siauliai), we fly winch and after airtowing trike.

You are welcome to come to our club to fly for fun or Lithuanian open hanggliding championchip. Prices in our country is about same as in Slovakia.

Tracklogs
The logs from Milslukern 2004 is available for download. ms2004-tracklogs.zip
All logs from both HG and PG are in there in IGC format, they can be converted with GPSDump, or analyzed directly in SeeYou or CompeGPS

Ringerud, glider for sale

Fredrik and I went to Ringerudkollen today as the weather was really good, and forecast for easterly winds. Over the takeoff it was good clouds with high cloudbase, but we could not see of feel much thermal activity. It was 0-2 m/s, and too warm. I took off and found the air to active but a strong inversion kept all the hot air from rising. It was only a extended sled ride to the landing. I think the conditions were good if we could get to a higher takeoff.

It was nice to be swimming in the Sperillen lake, the water was very warm, and the dinner at Vik was good too :-)

My Litespeed S 4 is now for sale, it’s got the new sailcut compared to the “Worlds” version, which makes it the best performing Litespeed ever. The glider have all extras including carbon outer leading edges, carbon tips, carbon sprogs, and carbon inserts. The A-frame is Zoom aluminium uprights, and carbon Zoom speedbar.

The glider looks like new, it’s flown about 50 hours, no crashes, original uprights, no acro flying.
Litespeed S 4

Link to the results from the Nordic Open