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Flying in downtown Oslo

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That is the coolest flight I have done in a very long time! A new site and downtown landing really enhances the whole hanggliding experience.
Steinar have been planning this flight for a long time, but I could not hold back, and took the maiden flight from him. This [...]

Streaming videos, course progress

Yesterday Steinar and I were instructors again. Our student did 10 tows, I did two, and Steinar one flight. All in less than three hours including setting up and packing up. The student did his first full tows, learned to turn around and set up a landing pattern, and spot land.
I did a test to [...]

More towing

I finally got my Litespeed RS back from Texas last weekend, and what a better way to test it than hooking up to the scooter tow?  Here’s a short video from that test, (135MB) great success!
(Sorry for the bad light, but the sun is getting low here up north)
Next up is getting a more powerful [...]

Video from Scooter-towing

Video from Scooter-towing

A short video from our scooter towing at Lillestrøm on Tuesday. Only one student so plenty of time for the instructors to play around. Unfortunately the nicest clips would not transfer from the camera to the computer, but some of these are cool.
One of the more interesting landings…

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