Last meet of the season at Tronfjell, and Rygge Airshow

Saturday we went to see the Airshow at Rygge airport, it was spectacular with loads of interesting and nice displays both on the ground and in the air. The weather was nice, and everyone seemed to have a great time. Unfortunately the Hanggliding part of the show had to be canceled as the weather did not permit us to move the tug to Rygge before the show.

Georgia posing as a pilot, the F35 is a bit dull full-size model/mock-up. Interesting to see the engines and a simulator on display in the hangar behind though.

Georgia, pilot of the F35
Georgia, pilot of the F35

Yours truly in front of an aircraft I hope I never will have to wait for. (It belongs to the Airforce SAR wing)

In front of the SeaKing
In front of the SeaKing

Every year we have the last meet of the season in Norway, at Tronfjell in the Østerdalen valley, near Tynset. It’s a very nice site to fly, and the conditions were fantastic again this year. Audun “El Loco” Etnestad and me drove from Rygge to Tynset Saturday night, and had a great day of flying on Sunday with around 35 other pilots.

Knut Løndal setting up
Knut Løndal setting up

Smooth thermals, safe ridge soaring, and perfect weather. A good way to end the season.

Just landed
Self portrait - Just landed, what a perfect place to fly hanggliders.

I did some filming from the air, and takeoff, have not had the time to see through it yet, might post some of it here later. A few photos from the air;

Video from Ringerud last week

A short clip from flying, and a high-speed de-rigging. Nice to see the cumulus development and clouds drifting by in the background. This is the first video I cut from my new Canon HF200 HD camera. The full-HD version looks really good on my HDTV screen at home, that’s way too big to post here, but I’ve made a more internet friendly version and posted it below.

The trees at launch are getting big again, I need to bring a saw next time. My wingtip did hit the bushes when I took off.

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Driver for Compeo+/6030GPS

The newest instruments from Brauniger and Flytec have a USB interface, and needs a driver to work in Windows/MacOS. I’m running Windows 7 both at home and on my laptop, and had some problems finding the right driver.

If you have problems connecting to your instrument in Windows 7 you might want to try this driver from Prolific. Prolific makes the chipset in the USB to Serial chip in the instruments.

I’ve just used it to download tracklogs with GPSDump and that works fine, but using the firmware upgrade flasher program does not work. For the firmware upgrade I need a PC with Vista or XP and  the PL2303drivers supplied by Brauniger/Flytec.

The Flasher program seems to be poorly written in the way it handles the serial port, it’s always been a problem using it with USB-Serial adapters.