Archive for June 2008
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New glider ordered
So I just ordered a new hangglider, the new Moyes Malibu. I bought it to see if I like to have two gliders, the Malibu is just for pure fun flying when I do not need the performance of the Litespeed RS. If I do not fly it much I can always sell it without [...]
Video fra Nettavisen
Videoen som er omtalt i nettavisen;
Europeans, finally some flying
Seems like they finally got a good day in Greifenburg, with a task around 156 km. Check out the Norwegian National Hanggliding team blog for updates from Olav (In Norwegian)
European Championships, cutting the losses
After 6 canceled days in the rain, the first task stopped because of dangerous conditions, the second task with a fatal accident, and a forecast for even more rain it was time to take stock and make some hard decisions. All in all it seemed quite pointless to waste more days in Greifenbug, and we [...]
The European Championships 2008, Day 8
No task today due to bad weather and the fatal accident yesterday. The forecast for tomorrow is rain and no flying, and a small possibility of flying on Wednesday with thunderstorms and north wind. Thursday and Friday looks bleak too.
My condolences to the family and friends of the Swiss pilot that died.
Back down to 1:100 [...]
The European Championships 2008, Day 7
So finally we woke up to sun and blue skies, and an early task before the warmfront shut us down. We got a 101km task to the east, to try to stay out of the shade. It was also the first day with the new rule about a max height at the start gate.
I got [...]
The European Championships 2008, Day 6
Our hotel is at 1800 meters, and we woke up inside cloudbase this morning. It was not raining, but lots of high clouds stopped any sun from drying out the valley. We went down to takeoff at 10:30 expecting to see few other pilots, but the organization believed it would be taskable, and everyone was [...]
Other pilot blogs from the Europeans
Not that many that I know of yet, send me links if you have them.
Corinna (GER)
Rich Lovelace (UK)
Matjaz (SLO)
The official competition website
Video from Greifenburg - Day 3. Day 4 and 5 rained out
Lots of rain cancelled day 4 and 5. We drove to Skyline in Germany, where Bjørn and I had a few upgrades and maintenance done on our harnesses. The Skyline crew is very helpful and worked overtime on finishing off the work so we had everything done in one day. I had my rescue repacked, [...]
