Today’s comp was cancelled because of heavy rain all day. The forecast for tomorrow looks good though, and we will hopefully have quite nice conditions. Briefing at 12:00 on the strip.

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Det blir tauing på Flisa til helga, Tugen blir flydd opp på Lørdags morgen og det blir mulighet for utsjekk for de som ønsker det. Sørg for å ta med hjul og utløser! Værmeldinga er bra så norgesrekorden henger i en tynn tråd nå!

For at vi skal slippe inn på området må vi ha en viss peiling på hvem som kommer. Ta kontakt med meg eller Bjørnar Ryeng for å si fra at du kommer.

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Norgescupen er i rute, det blir påmelding på Haslemoen på Lørdag, evnt. ring meg og si fra at du vil delta. Vi må ha en deltagerliste før 16 mai 12:00, det er siste frist. Det blir treningsdag 17 mai for de som ikke går i tog, og konkurranse 18-20 mai.

Med det været vi har bestillt blir dette årets konkurranse, termikkforholdene rundt Flisa er berømte i seilflymiljøet. Vi kommer til å ha minst en dag med fri distanse, flere hvis det er rekordforhold. Ta utsjekk til helga hvis du ikke har, og meld deg på!

– Øyvind

The weather forecast for the Frya Cup last weekend was very good, but the conditions never got any good. I lost my first flight back from New York and did not make it to Oslo until Saturday afternoon, but I lost no points since the day was cancelled. Sunday looked more promising with blue skies and little wind. Eventually it turned out to be too blue and slow conditions. Tommy took off 2 seconds before the window closed at 15:00, and flew 17 km. Some of the pilots drove to Heidal and got some flying there, Terje Brønstad flew to Frya.

Monday was a little better in Heidal, I slept in the sun on the ramp for one hour and then the thermals started coming up to takeoff. Olav and I flew back to Vågå, but Erlend got stuck with tailwind. Totally blue, and maks height around 2000 meters.

Seems that there have been a few good flights earlier than I thought, Ingar Johansen flew 85 km from Flesberg in Easter, and Dag Ring flew 90 km from Frya 22/4. I have not had the time to go flying and then I won’t get to hear all the info. Good flying guys!

I’m in San Jose in California for some technical training this and next week, so there’s little news here. The first XC flights of any distance was flown last weekend. Nils-Åge and Olav flew from Vågå to Frya.

Back in Oslo again, the last two days in Bassano had fantastic flying conditions. It was bitterly cold at height though, – 15° at 2800 meters. Lots of pilots in the air flying all day. I took off on the last day and flew out over the plains in zero and lift for 10 km before I turned around and came back higher than I left, all without turning once. Driving back it rained all the way from the Brenner pass to southern Sweden.

I made a Moyes logo for my Siemens GSM phone, it might fit on a Nokia? Let me know if you use it (Right click and download)

Borso, Bassano, Italy
Yesterday Olav and I flew a short XC to try and cross over to Mt. Cesen. It was quite turbulent and it got windy when we came to the river. I landed on the Bassano side, Olav crossed over and got to the Observatory on the way back. The day before it rained all day.

The German leauge comp is here, yesterday was cancelled. We wanted to fly in the comp, but they would not let us join today. We waited until quite late before we went up this afternoon as it looked like it might overdevelop, and it sure did. As soon as we had our gliders rigged it was lightning and rain all over the sky. Tomorrow looks good, Sunday a little worse on the forecast.

Semonzo, Bassano, Italy
A quick update from Bassano, it rained as hell all the way from Inssbruck. The next day we flew a nice afternoon flight in slow termal conditions. Yesterday was good an we had a small out and return to the observatory and back. This morning it is quite gray, and looks like overdevelopment will occur during the day.
Our students have flown 4 flights each and is landing on their own now.

I have uploaded some pictures from Vågå last weekend in the photo archive, nice shots by Nils Åge.

Now it off to Bassano, Italy. We are leaving tonight, and will stop in Garmisch to have a look at the fair since nothing much is happening in Bassano this year. We’ll probably be in Bassano late Friday night if things go as planned. I’ll update these pages whenever I can if the Italian GSM networks work better than last year.

We have had nice weather lately, I was in Vågå this weekend with good conditions and some early spring thermals from Visdal.
Yesterday Fredrik Hoffman and I flew a sled ride from Sundvollen. It was a nice flight in still conditions.