Norwegian Hanggliding

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Olav Opsanger flew concistently good in the European championships in Croatia, and got 18. place in total as best Norwegian. “Frisi” won, in front of Oleg and Primoz Gricar. Total results (pdf)
Seemed to be a very challenging comp, with many top names changing places all the time.

Zwok is a flash game, very easy to play, but addictive and fun.

I’ve finally posted the tracklogs from Milslukern, you can get them at the Jetta LSK homepage. It’s zip files with all the tracklogs in one, so you can check out what everyone else did. Results are also online at the same page.

Serious mammatus couds, more with videos

Saturday Bjørn and I tried tandem towing for the first time. We got a wheel assemby with tailboom on a WillsWing Falcon tandem. I was pilot and Bjørn passenger, Alf towed us with the Tug. It was almost no wind from the south, and we rolled for a long time before taking off. The flight [...]

The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, (Flash movie) probably old, but I saw it just now. The Chuck Norris part is hillarious.

More pictures from Milslukern.

I did not have the time to write about the competition here, as the weather turned good and we had flying all days and looong nights with retreives and scoring. I’m running the comp more or less as a one man show, so there’s not much time to spare.
A high pressure area moved in and [...]

The meteo did not forecast rain today, but as we opened the start window at Vole it was gray, and around 13:00 it started pouring down. So the first day of Milslukern went on without much flying. Some pilot flew late in the afternoon, and scored around 5 km :-)
Around 45 pilots here now, we [...]

Might be good for soaring in mountain wave?