Norwegian Hanggliding

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It feels like we had very unstable weather the last month, usually we have some really good days in May, with high cloudbase and strong lift. Last year we had an extremely good period in late May, with lots of record breaking flights.
Last weekend there was a competition in Köping in Sweden, we chose not [...]

Mine and Olav’s glider finally arrived from Florida last week, with no transport damages this time. I picked them up and drove to Vågå for the national team meet. The plan was to set XC tasks and do a detailed debrief every night after flying. Unfortunately the weather was not very good for flying tasks [...]

I took this picture at Olav’s house in Vågå this morning, guess it explains why we did not fly today. Unstable weather indeed.

It’s early spring and with low pressure systems all around us we have had some rather unstable weather the last few days. On Thursday it was nice in the morning, but became overcast as we were setting up at Frya. It was not possible to set a task and we cancelled and glided down. Late [...]

Seems like our gliders are still in Florida, one week after beeing picked up for shipping home. Bax global are shipping the gliders, but did not send them because some papers were missing. (Papers that had been emailed twice already so there should be no problems…) Why could they not just pick up the phone [...]