Norwegian Hanggliding

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The competition at Sportavia is finished, 4 out of 7 days flying. The last proved to be difficult with overdelvelopment on the course, only Crag Coomber made goal. Jon lost a few overall places by landing after only 11km on the last day, and he got 7. place overall. Jon jr. won the comp, with [...]

The pilots are in Tocumwal at Tove’s Sportavia soaring center. There will be a week long aerotowing competition that starts on the 21. Tove is running a training camp for new pilots these days before the competition.
According to the Oz report there was a fatal accident there today, where a pilot tucked and spun to [...]

It’s nice to be able to analyze the tracklogs from the Bogong Cup soon after each day is scored. I was looking at the best flights, and found Jon’s choice on day 4 to be interesting…

Jon’s track is the green on the left, he chose to go all alone, way off course to the first [...]

After another good day yesterday with 6. place, Jon seemed to have a bad run today with only 38km of the 104km course. He’s now in 13. place overall.  Gerolf won the day today, with his apprentice Michael 9 seconds behind. Atilla is still way ahead after 3. place today, Andreas on 4.

Looks like it was another difficult day in the Bogong Cup, Jon did not make goal, but landed 20 km short on the 134km task, at 17. palce. He dropped down to 11. place again in the overall scoring. Atilla won the day again, showing great form and now have a comfortable 339 point lead [...]

After day 3 Jon moved up to 7. place overall! He did really well with 6. place on day 3, according to the Oz report it was a very slow day with total overcast conditions. Only 9 pilots in goal, Andreas missed it by a few km in 10. place. Atilla is still in the [...]

Jon Gjerde is the only Norwegian in Oz this year, he is doing well after two days of the Bogong Cup with 11. place overall of 66 pilots. The Hungarian mafia of Atilla and Balaz did really good on the first day and are in the lead in front of Olli.
Andreas is the only Swede, [...]

I got a link to some cool free games at BinaryZoo, very fun and addictive. I liked Mono the most, it’s like Asteroids on acid and speed. Reminds me of old school arcade machines (1 or 2 Kr. per play) and some of the Amiga classics. Quick and no-brainer games for instant fun in the [...]