Norwegian Hanggliding

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Task 1 results
Very good day yesterday. 23 pilots showed up for the comp, and more than 25 freeflyers. We set a 68km task up and down the valley, with goal at the main landing. 8 people made goal, with Arnt as the day winner.
Today looks grey and slow, looks like a day at the cafe.

Learn to fly here (Picture)

I went to Vågå this weekend for a party, and only brought my harness in case it would be flyable. Saturday turned out to be a great day, and Fredrik and me decided to go up to Vole and try to get a flight. It’s still some snow on the road up the mountain, so [...]

Jeff O’Brien is at Quest in Florida, taking good pictures as always.  Check out the top surface of that T2. That does not look very clean, even with loose glider…
http://hang6.blogspot.com/2007/04/friday-afternoon-folks-are-showing-up.html 

Terne S and me took a flight towards Sweden today to look at the XC possibilites in that direction. It was a very stable day today, Trond Olsen did two tows but it was not much thermals above 3-400 meters.
The inversion layer is quite clear, this is at 3500 feet.

I wrote a short summary from [...]

The results from the competition in Bassano are now online. The scorer had big problems getting CompeGPS to work, and we could not get results or downloads the second day. I’m hoping we can have Stein Tore’s new system up and running for Frya Cup in May.

Short update as we had a busy night packing up; We got a 90 km task, very similar to yesterday. Blue skies with some clouds forming today, and a weak NW wind. Quite low cloudbase at 1500 meters. The whole gaggle joined up on the ridge just at the start circle, and it became “interesting” [...]

We woke up to a grey and cloudy morning, and it seemed we would get a marginal day if we got in a task before overdevelopment and rain. At takeoff it seemed to be better, and we got a 90 km task, similar to yesterday, with start at the observatory at Possagnio, west on the [...]

We had really nice weather the last few days, with sun from blue skies and not much wind. It’s been quite stable though, so we did not get very high.
The first task today was 108km, mostly along the ridge. We all got off nicely, and joined up in the gaggle before the start gate. It [...]

Nils Åge, Speidern and me arrived in Bassano Monday night, driving our rental car from Milano. After checking in at the new hotel at the landing field we had Pizza at the regular place. The guys that arrived earlier in the weekend had nice flights earlier in the day until it started to rain.
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