Olav Opsanger and Olav Lien Olsen have been flying the Florida Ridge and Flytec championships in Florida this easter. Olav Opsanger did well at Quest with 13. place, up from 18. place last year. It was a total of 70 flex wings in the comp. Oleg won, Brett second and Jon Jr. third.
Olav Lien Olsen came 45, improving from 59. place last year. The weather did not seem to cooperate in Florida this year, ref. the Oz Report, with high winds and overdevelopment cancelling many days.
In Bassano they had 2 days flying, Nils Åge was the only Norwegian and came in 10. place of total 40 pilots. Robert Reisinger won in front of Frisi and Hans Kiefinger.
Frya Cup is the first competition in Norway, and it starts this weekend. Hope we get a good start of the season with perfect weather.
And a little off topic news – I got married to Georgia 16/4. I traveled with family and friends to Brasilia this easter, thus no flying news. It was a fantastic event with around 150 guests from Brasil and Norway.
Nice clouds over Brasilia today, it’s getting close to the end of the rainy season here. This was at 15:30 local time, earlier today it overdeveloped and rained from some cells.
I had a two day stopover in Rio on my way to Brasilia, Fritz and I went to Pepino beach, to see if it was possible to fly. Fritz had brought his lightweight paraglider and harness, I rented a hangglider and harness from one of the local tandem outfits. They set up the glider, you just preflight and take off, and after landing you just park the glider and they will pack it up. Nice to be a tourist sometimes :-)
Conditions were not strong enough to soar, but it was a nice flight down to the beach anyway. Rio is set in quite spectacular nature, with huge granite peaks and green valleys ending in long beautiful beaches.
Fritz tooke some pictures, but we did not have a card reader to put it on my computer yet. I’ll update with pics when he gets to Brasilia.
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