Norwegian Hanggliding

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The new instrument range from Brauniger and Flytec seems to be aimed at the pilots buying their first instrument. The instruments have the most basic features, and looks more user-friendly than before. There is not much info on the websites yet (Flytec only have a picture, no info)
The display is as usual different between [...]

A new meteo satelite is getting ready to be deployed, looks very impressive, and it will provide us with lots of new good data. I just hope the data will be made available on the net for free. (Articles in norwegian.)

I spent the weekend flying and working on the Dragonfly tug. It was nice weather for flying both days, and not much movement in the air even with clear blue skies on Saturday. It was cold to fly, but covering all exposed skin and adding some ekstra layers of clothes made it tolerable.
I used my [...]

I went to Sundvollen on Sunday, it was windy, and I spent some hours checking over the Falcon that one of our students had landed in a tree. The glider looked suprisingly fine, it just had some marks in the sail. No holes or rifts, I disassembled both leading edges to check them thoroughly and [...]

I want one of these for my eehhh.. “personal protection”! Actually I did play with something similar in the Airforce, only it was no gun, just a remote infrared camera mounted on a beam radar.

Litespeed S 4,5 Smoke Inlaid Interesting solution, I asked Brett if it works.

Kenneth Karlsen was the most accurate in the pic contest, he had been flying sailplane in the area with a turnpoint just east of where the photo was taken. Here’s another picture that explains the PG view :-)

I took off from the strip at Kongsvinger with the Dragonfly, flew to Kirkenær and back again in [...]

You can have lots of fun in a sailplane, just have a look at this video.

Frode thought it was too difficult and did not want to try this on fridistanse.no Should not be that hard, eh? Where is this picure taken then? Answer in comments.
I am facing north, and it’s cold. Typical PG pilot perspective, with the boots sticking up in every picture :-)

I’ve been negative to Sony since they did the DRM rootkit stunt, but this Suberbowl commercial with 250000 bouncy balls in the streets of San Fransico is worth a look. (Quicktime video)