Pictures from Surfers Paradise

Pictures from Surfers Paradise

Some pictures from two days of surfing class;

Stick flying, surf, apartment hunting

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 [...]

Bogong Cup, the rest

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 [...]

Bogong Cup, Day 1 – 4

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 [...]

Forbes 2010, day 9 and 10

Forbes 2010, day 9 and 10

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 [...]

Forbes 2010, Day 8

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 [...]

Forbes 2010, day 7.

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 [...]

Briefing day 7

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 [...]

Forbes 2010, Day 6, good race day

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 [...]

Pictures from Day 4

Pictures from Day 4

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