Norwegian Hanggliding

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Bjørn have some pics from the Vågå Open, mail me links if you have some online.

Damn those Austrians and their RedBull and vodkas, the party lasted until 07:00 and it was hard to get up, pack up and go home on Sunday…
I’ve put the final scores online, http://hp.nlf.no/vaagaaopen

Short update;
Yesterday we finally saw the sun again. It was flyable in Bøverdalen, and we made a local task of around 55 km. Unfortunately some clouds shaded the valley for a long time, and the early starters all fell through. I took off around 19:30, when I saw Seppi and Johnny who had just taken [...]

Bad weather, not much flying. Yesterday we went to Bøverdalen after the day was cancelled to see if the site is suited for a speed-gliding course. Olav, Seppi, Gerolf, Michael, and Jon flew down from Dugurmålskampen and landed at Galde. It was too windy and unstable to do some real speedgliding, but it turned out [...]

Yesterday was forecasted to be really good, we got up to Vole and had a look before deciding to go to Salknappen because of the easterly winds. The task comittee set 70 km to Otta and up to goal at Lesja. It looked very good early, but some big clouds shaded the whole area in [...]

Day 1 saw no-fly conditions. It was too windy from the North in Vågå, and too low cloudbase in Bøverdalen to make any task there. We had a nice 4 hour session where Gerolf Heinrichs talked about the design and construction of topless hanggliders.
Today the forecast was pretty good, with weak northerly winds, and unstable [...]

A Norwegian pilot is making news in India, flying close to a ministers helicopter. Probably a paraglider and not a hangglider. Stein Edgar is in South America, so he’s innocent :-)

There’s been some updates to the various software we use for flying relates stuff, I’ve reinstalled my computer and discovered new versions of software as I was reinstalling.
Brauniger have released 2.19a for the Compeo, should fix the “going silent in lift” bug.
Stein have made a new version of GPSDump that fixes a few problems with [...]

Saturday was another classical good day in Vågå. We got a layer of cirrus making it challenging to get up and away early, but the day improved and conditions were very good later in the day. The window was open from 12:30, the first gaggle hat problems when crossing to Grimsdalen and most landed there. [...]

We got a great day for XC flying, the weather was classical Bismo with high cloudbase and weak SW winds. Longest PG flight was Arne Kristian Boiesen, with 97km to Atna. Kjell “Speidern” Keogh got the best HG flight with 118km south to Fåvang.
Nice takeoff at Bismo