What a week it’s been, I’ve had a infection in the mouth since last week, then I got the flu on Sunday, and then had a major operation to remove a tooth Wednesday. I looked like Marlon Brando in The Godfather movie on my left side of the face. Finally on Sunday I had no fever and felt like doing something more than walking from the bed to the TV couch, so I went flying.

Lots of people at Sundvollen today, mosty HG pilots since the forecast was for some wind. Frode took a few pictures, here’s me over takeoff on the Target trainer.

It was nice and slow conditions in the morning, the first pilots fell through. Then some huge snow squalls made it very windy, before it slowed down and became very soarable. I flew for 20 minutes before I got too cold and went down. I felt the first thermals today, still wintery though…

It’s been snowing a lot in Oslo the last few days, and the weekend forecast is for even more snow until Monday. Good for the skiers though.
This is the view from my office on Friday afternoon, the snowdrift is about 1,2 meters high.

Remember the Fritjof Arngren mailorder catalouge from the 80s’s, with the flying car? I always wanted one of those. Now some MIT students are working on the idea, but with no facts or even a prototype this is seems even less realistic than Arngrens flying car.

Guess it’s a good thing that we do not have to share airspace with every old geezer that can afford a flying car :-)

I spent last weekend in Lausanne, Switzerland, at the CIVL plenary meeting. I attended the HG sub-comitte working group all Friday, and had a short meeting with Scott about the records and badges rules on Friday night, more on that later. Knut Nygard and Stein Tore Erdal traveled with me, and attended the PG working group. Saturday and Sunday was set aside for the plenary meeting. Stein Tore Erdal was there to work on the new web-based scoring and ranking systems, as well as Jan Nielsen that represented the organization for the Acro World Chapionships 2008 bid.

The DHV proposal about measuring sprogs was put on hold until a working group has worked more on the issue, DHV admitted it was too early to implement any rules about it now. The working group want to start trials during the Europeans in Croatia.

Jan came well prepared and made a very professional and good presentation. Norway was awarded the Acro World Championshps for 2008 to be held at Voss! The dates are not set yet, but it will be in June or August 2008.

The European PG XC and Accuracy championships 2008 was awarded to Serbia Montenegro. There were no bids for the European HG championships, but Flip said he had contact with some organizers that might do it. The bureau was given the power to select a organizer.
The CIVL officials were re-elected with no changes.

All in all the meeting was OK, but quite inefficient with very detailed and long discussions. The CIVL bureau recognize this and have made some new guidelines to make the working groups more efficient.

More info on the CIVL web

Big boys, big toys.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqcDJGlfAGE