Norwegian Hanggliding

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Me on final glide towards Greifenburg, as seen from the Swift.

Manfred is on my tail

Olav with the Alps in the background

The class, a international team, from the left; Phil (New-Zealand/Germany), Leigh (South Africa), me (Norway), Olav (Norway), Bob (Flying Dutchman), Marcus (Sweden), Manfred (Austria), Duncan (England), Arnt (Norway)

Finally the winds died down and we got a good day for flying. We got up quite early and set up among the rest of the pilots at takeoff. It was quite crowded, but plenty of space compared to during the German open. We got a 133 km task from Manfred, with a 3 km [...]

It was windy and not flyable. We went Go-Carting and then to a bird-show at an old castle about 1 hour from Greifenburg. It was an impressive show with trained birds of pray hunting for stuffed animals beeing dragged or thrown around the area. The king eagle and hawk swooped just centimetres above our heads. [...]

Mostly it’s been huge amounts of rain. We flew on Thursday, but it was weak and hard to stay up. Olav got off early and flew parts of the course with Manfred, the rest of us slowly sunk out in the shade and landed at the main field. We had lots of time to do [...]