Norwegian Hanggliding

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Windy, cancelled. We flew the last day though.
I had a very good run in the beginning, we had to cross the Kiewa valley and fly over to behind Bright, then back to Kiewa and to Mt. Beauty goal. I got to 2800 meters before crossing the valley, way above the rest of the pack, and [...]

We drove from Forbes to Sydney, and dropped off Olav since he was going home. Lars and I went looking for used cars to buy, and Lars soon scored a Mitsubishi station wagon for $1500 at the used car street in Paramatta. I was looking for a Subaru Forester or Outback, but could not find [...]

We got a 167 km dogleg task to the east and then north to Wellington. The forecast was for similar conditions as day 8, with base at 3000 and good thermal, not much wind. I took the last tow again as it was just too hot to wait in line, Bobby came over and towed [...]

Seems like everyone else had a good and easy run to the TP, while I was struggling in shitty air. I teamed up with Jeff Shapiro and Zac at the start gate, and we waited until the third start time before we were in a good position. The first few thermals were extremely broken and [...]

The staging system in our towing line B is not working at all, it’s chaos and pilots just line up wherever they want so those in front cannot get in the line as we are supposed to. Lukas and me just waited until the end before getting in line today. Standing there in 35 degrees [...]

140km zig-zag task, crosswind. Base at 3000 meters, 20 km winds. Much the same as yesterday.
Gerolf suggested a rest day, which would have been really good, but the vote failed 26 to 16  where the majority of pilots wanted to fly every day. Easy when you are warm and adjusted, hard for us coming from [...]

129 km task today, almost a triangle back to the worlds paddock.
I took the first start with a gaggle of pilots, saw some go back to wait for the next, but I did not want to wait, the early finishers get more points in the OzGAP system. The first themal took is to cloudbase at [...]

Davis showed us a forecast for lift up to 3000 meters today, so I dressed up for the 3 degrees there. That was a big mistake… We did get to 2000 meters twice, but it just got lower and lower as we flew south towards the first TP in completely blue conditions. I was sweating [...]

149km out&return, but to the old Worlds paddock just south of Forbes. The airport complained that we were crossing the runway too low all the time, and we have to move to another goal field. As long as we get to fly back home I’m happy with it.
Weather looks good, forecast for base up to [...]