Norwegian Hanggliding

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It’s been great weather the last few days here, sunny and warm for the season. Yesterday we flew at Ringerud in the morning and then Sundvollen in the afternoon. It was thermal activity at Ringerud, but just a little to weak to get up in the stable conditions. I borrowed the Falcon, and then Bjørn’s [...]

The HG2K video is now updated with a higher bitrate, and de-interlacing. Looks much better, but the file grew to 156MB. Download HG2K.avi

Johnny Jr. is at it again, his last Australian record stood for a short time until Rohan beat him the day before the Worlds started. Yesterday he took it back with a cool 496km! More in the Oz report.

Something different, very cool commercial

I made a hanggliding video in 2000, from the flying that summer. It was filmed with DV and cut down to around 15 minutes. Great fun to make, but it takes a lot of time to cut and edit the film into something that’s short and enjoyable. Recently I dug it out and had a [...]

Check out the Italian birdman Angelo d’Arrigo’s site http://angelodarrigo.com/ A true adventurer.

I’ve uploaded some pictures from the Nordics 2004 in the album. Took a while…
There’s also a Divx version of the HG2000 video coming up in the next few days, stay tuned.

I’ve started using Picasa 2 to organize and display pictures on my computer. It’s the best application I’ve found for handling huge amounts of digital photos, with just the right features I need. Best of all it’s free! Download from http://www.picasa.com

Jetta LSK is rebuilding the takeoff-ramp at Espesetra. The new ramp is much bigger and better placed for takeoff, if we can get some gravel to fill in the back it’s perfect for paragliders too.
Espesetra in springtime is a good site with some very strong thermal conditions on the good days. Last May, Arnt [...]

Having to reinstall a server is a good opportunity to make changes and patch up old software. I have made some changes both visible and “under the hood” of the website. Hope you find the new look attractive and easy to use. As always let me know if there are things not working as expected. [...]