Norwegian Hanggliding

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Windy today, looks like thunder tonight. No flying so far.
Yesterday was pretty good, but we were a little unorganized and had no radios working. We set a 78km task. Olav landed 14km from goal, Jon landed near the first TP. I had two tows, and got of too late. Strong headwind going back. I [...]

Yesterday we flew a triangle task around Quest, it was blue in the morning and we waited until 15:00 until taking off. Pretty good conditions but far between the good cores, cloudbase at 1600 meters. Tove picked up Jon at the airport last night, so the team is complete now. We went to get another [...]

It was NE winds today, which makes it a bit difficult to get up around Quest because of some large lakes to the NE. We had to wait for the XC course to tow up first, then we could take off. I had two tows, on the first I released at 500 meters into zero [...]

After having out flight rebooked to 06:40 from Oslo it became a rather stressfull Thursday night and Friday morning. Olav Lien Olsen met us at the Orlando Airport, after we had spent 2 hours going through immigration and lots of baggage checks, and drove us to the motel where we stay.
Yesterday we found and assembled [...]

Last weekend was the bi-annual meeting for the national airsports federations. Friday was a board meeting for the hang and paragliding section, Saturday all the representatives from the clubs meet, and Sunday is the representatives for all the different airsports. I was there Friday and Saturday. We did not have any big cases, and [...]