Norwegian Hanggliding

It’s been really heavy rain in southern Queensland with some massive flooding in some areas. The competition in Dalby have been postponed due to the floodings. Dalby itself was not too bad hit so far, but there is more rain to come in the next few days. The new dates are 18 to 24/3. It’s [...]

Some more pictures from the last days;

Out and return’ish task, to Barraba, back via a few turnpoints on the west and south site of Borah, and to goal at the Manilla airfield. Conditions were tricky at lauch, with tailwind and cross, but some launchable periods now and then. The forecast predicted North East so Grant, Niel and I went down to [...]

Similar conditions to yesterday, but with clouds. We got a direct line task to goal, 120 something km, 5km goal circle. I got off and up easily, and waited around under the clouds for the next start gate. Many pilots took the first start gate, and I was in the position to do so, but [...]

I started with Johnny, Grant, Dave Sieb, and a few others, we stuck together for the first few thermals, struggled a little around Barraba, and then I went more to the left under good clouds but over bad terrain for a while. We then met and split up again a few times until the turnpoint [...]

The road up to Borah was fine even after the 30mm rain yesterday, so we drove up and set up on the West facing launch. Some of the paragliders launched early and stayed up, but did not get very high. We got a 94km task with two TP, where the last two legs would be [...]

I drove from Sydney to Manilla on Saturday night, after stopping by the Chinese new years party at Bill and Mollys place in Bronte. It was a long drive as the GPS sent me up the tourist drive road, which is a 100 km of very winding and narrow road. It’s probably very pretty in the daytime and good [...]

Some pictures from two days of surfing class;

After a few days on the Beach in Jervis Bay (Check out the link to see the world’s whitest sand) we headed back to Sydney, to see if we could find a place to stay permanently. The property market is not easy in this city, and we have not found anything yet, but if we [...]

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 [...]