Flying in the mountains of Norway :-)

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:58 pm

Some pictures from my eastercamp glidingvacation.

Cheers!
Kriss

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:02 am

P-MONKE · Post by **P-MONKE** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:40 pm

Fantastic!

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:08 am

A few more

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:13 am

I'll stop now

Lecro · Post by **Lecro** » Sun May 01, 2011 12:47 pm

Great! please more if you have!

AlexZander · Post by **AlexZander** » Mon May 02, 2011 12:05 pm

Hi!

Yeah, what a stunning area! You're lucky! ^^ But it seems to be pretencious to fly there. I'd love to see more pics as well!

Bye

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Mon May 02, 2011 11:20 pm

Thank you for nice comments!

Flying in Western Norway is very safe and comfortable. We always know excactly were we can land if we're getting low.
These photos are from easter when there is still loads of snow in the mountains. This make the landscape look harsh and hostile for gliding.
Landing at a snow-covered grassfield is not recommended, but it usually only gives small damages to the glider. Typical, is the loss of wheel hatches.
We don't do alot of XC-soaring when the landscape is snow-covered because of the outlandingfields beeing covered by snow. Our XC-season starts off about now.

Beneath are some more photos from my first XC-flights of 2011.

Cheers!
Kriss

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Mon May 02, 2011 11:23 pm

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Mon May 02, 2011 11:25 pm

If you look close, you can spot the Discus. "Alpine skin" is no stupid idea on gliders..

Jarmo K · Post by **Jarmo K** » Tue May 03, 2011 7:50 pm

LLOOOLLL,

must be easy as "thermal helpers" are on.... and then THE question: who was first; left or right?

(very nice views, thanks for posting them)

kristoffer · Post by **kristoffer** » Tue May 03, 2011 11:31 pm

Thanks Jarmo!
The eagle was of course first.

I spotted the eagle and joined in. Afterwards came the rest of the "white birdies".
Annyoingly, the eagle obviously never learned the rules of thermalling because he was switching turningdirection all the time.
He swooped over my canopy a few times scaring the crap out of me.

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