Norwegian Hanggliding

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On Saturday Bjørn and I decided to take two of our students to Flesberg. It was forecasted light snow and easterly winds, which turned out to be an accurate forecast. It was perfect conditions with almost no wind and only light fog at times. Both Petter and Lars got 3 flights each, they both [...]

Oh yeah, scroll down and check out the weather applet in the right menu. It pick up the latest METAR from Gardermoen airport.

I talked to the owner of Hay Carvan park where we will stay during the worlds in Australia. It was forecasted 38 degrees, and the cumulus couds were starting to form at 10:30. With weak northerly winds it sounded like a very good day for flying in Hay. He also said it had not rained [...]

This website is now running on the 3. generation of hardware. I’ve upgraded from a Pentium II 300Mhz server to an Athlon 1400Mhz. The old server had 450MB RAM, the new one has 1Gig. The speed increase it quite nice when doing searches and adding more pictures and content.
The first server back in ‘98 [...]

Bjørn and I went out to take some high flights with the students this weekend. Saturday we went to Vikersund as it was forecasted NW winds. It turned out to be mostly NE, and way to strong to fly in. We went up to the top of the ski jump tower and had a look. [...]

Jonny Durant Jr. did a very nice flight in Australia yesterday, 443km from the family’s home site in Beechmont. The Oz report have more on the flight

It’s been a good season for record attempts in Norway, the period in late May and early June provided some fantastic flying conditions. Here’s a summary of the records set or broken this year;
FAI triangle speed over 50km
Pilot: Olav Opsanger
Dato: 2004/04/29
Takeoff: Vole, Vågå
Landing: Sørem, Vågå
Distanse: 50 km
Oppgavetype: FAI triangle speed over 50km
Oppgavetid: 1:18:52
Gennomsnittshastighet: 38 km/t
Antall [...]