Norwegian Hanggliding

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Why two are better than one - Very good visualization. (It landed safely after a fuel dump)

I just dropped off Olav, Nils Aage and Jon at the airport. Olav and Nils are heading home, while Jon is going to Thailand for a few weeks of vacation. Georgia and I are flying home tomorrow afternoon. It’s sad to pack up and travel home, we met a lot of the other pilots at [...]

You can have a hanggliding competition anywhere in the world, and it will rain there. We are professional drought breakers now, any farmers needing some rain can just arrange a big international competition where pilots travel around half the world to fly.
Actually we got to freefly after the task was cancelled yesterday because of rain [...]

Not much flying here lately, we went to Mystic (Or Septic as some call it now) again, under grey and rain-laden clouds. We got a little rain on us while we waited there until 14:30 when Heather gave up and announced a spot landing comp. The winner would get $500. I went down with Olav’s [...]

Day 3 saw lots of smoke, and we went to Mystic in Bright in case it would clear up. It was pretty grim there with loads of smoke, and none of use were really keen on flying. In the end it cleared up a little, and we got a task back to Mt. Beauty via [...]

Here’s a few pictures from this afternoon. We went to Bright in case it would be brighter (heheh) there, but there was no point going up the hill in dense smoke. It’s become even worse here tonight, and many teams are concidering leaving for clearer air. The forecast is not very good regarding clearing the [...]

I’ve really needed the 20 + hours to get friendly with the glider, mostly due to me being out of flying shape. The glider looks and feels quite different from my last S4, the sail has a lot more double surface, the frame and span is larger. I’ve only done some minor adjustments to it [...]

The tasks were quite long, I flew 23 hours and more than 1110km in 5 tasks, Vicki mentioned at the prize giving that we had flown more than 80000 km in total. We saw quite high speeds on the tasks too, we are gliding at much higher speeds than before, and the glides are longer [...]

The last few days we had very good conditons, and since the wind died down enough to fly back home we got some out and return tasks. Task 5 was 177km north to Tullamore and back, with totally blue skies and predicted 30-35 km/h crosswind it looked like a hard day. I got in line [...]

Another long task, 237km dogleg. I had two weaklink brakes, the second at 100 meters, but I hooked on to the thermal that came off the towing strip and managed to climb out. From there it was slow in the beginning and better and better during the day. I took the first start gate as [...]