Norwegian Hanggliding

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I always tend to forget some important stuff when it’s been a while since the last competiton. During the season all my gear is packed in the harness all the time, or charging in very close proximity. I have not been competing since July, so now much of my comp gear have been packed away [...]

With weak northerly winds, and high pressure systems we can get some super nice conditions at out local site close to Oslo, but more often than not it’s foggy below the inversion just under takeoff. There was a clear inversion yesterday too, but not much fog.
I had kept Sindre’s Litesport that he bought from a [...]

Seems like the mediaplayer works fine with the 264 encoding, here’s the Ekeberg video in original resolution and high quality.

It’s that time of the season where we mostly just get to talk about flying. This weekend is the last board meeting in our federation, and we do a combined meeting with both the operational and political leadership of hang and paragliding.
Here’s the participants, from the left – Bjørn Hammer – rules and airspace, Olav [...]