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Gliders => Slope Soaring => Topic started by: selleri on August 10, 2015, 16:24:04 PM

Title: Hvolsfjall - Just so you don't think it's all rocks and sea!
Post by: selleri on August 10, 2015, 16:24:04 PM

Finally got the right wind to test out a mountain about an 90 minutes drive from home.
It actually has grass on the top side and a drivable path up the side.
So who knows maybe a certain Ka3 or a Straton might end up flying there in a not too distant future!

No sound of wind this time, just for you Keith!  :wink:

(http://frettavefur.net/Forum/uploadpic/2015/1439167146_0.jpg)

(http://frettavefur.net/Forum/uploadpic/2015/1439167146_1.jpg)

(http://frettavefur.net/Forum/uploadpic/2015/1439167146_3.jpg)

(http://frettavefur.net/Forum/uploadpic/2015/1439167146_4.jpg)

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/v/7mzAqj58cx4[/youtube]

Title: Hvolsfjall - Just so you don't think it's all rocks and sea!
Post by: Fred on August 10, 2015, 20:08:15 PM

That looks like a very nice slope Sverrir!  :clap:

Looks like more than one wind direction is possible no?  :?:

Title: Hvolsfjall - Just so you don't think it's all rocks and sea!
Post by: selleri on August 10, 2015, 20:40:41 PM

It is! Should be flyable in V-NA wind directions.

Title: Hvolsfjall - Just so you don't think it's all rocks and sea!
Post by: Happy Days on August 15, 2015, 08:32:11 AM

I'm amazed! I had no idea there were such massive flat grasslands in Iceland. Bit of a surprise, being such a geologically active country. Is it a river flood plain?.Good to see the people in Iceland wear the same sort of summer cloths as in Ireland

Anyway, looks a super place to fly. And someone had the sense to bring a flying wing along to the party. Pity we didn't see any combat, never mind! Looks like a good time was had by all regardless.

Oh! and I much prefer the sound track to that of wind over mic'. Nice one Sverrir :clap:

L Keith.

Title: Hvolsfjall - Just so you don't think it's all rocks and sea!
Post by: billscottni on August 15, 2015, 16:10:37 PM

Keith, they weren't wearing the same summer clothes as Ireland! I didn't see any waterproofs  :wink:

What was the funny blue stuff in the sky? Not much of that around here this year  :(

Title: Hvolsfjall - Just so you don't think it's all rocks and sea!
Post by: selleri on August 15, 2015, 20:31:08 PM

It's all the earthquakes we have there, they tend to level things out!  ;)
There is quite a bit of lava under the soil but after the last "ice age" ~10.000 years ago, this part was largely under water and when the land rose it left a lot of arable soil behind.
Today this is the largest farming area  of Iceland.

That wing is quite famous you know!  :D
http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3493

Glad you like the music Keith, it's by a fellow countryman, Olafur Arnalds, he does a fair bit of composing.
Might have heard some of his work if you've watched series called Broadchurch on the telly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadchurch#Music

Ah, yes the blue stuff, I brought some of it from Ireland on my last visit, do you want it back?  :twisted: