Fred’s new colours…

Posted on March 18, 2010 by admin.
Categories: Ã…re.

Yihaa!!!

Today my new glider arrived with UPS. I now fly a UP Trango X-light. Green and white. Since i tried it in Brazil in october i have wanted one.

But no fly today, it’s raining and that’s actually realy good. Get rid of the snow, and then some sun and thermals will be the way i like them… Going UP!!!  ;-)

The glider is open class but said to be EN D-ish. Aspect ratio 7.0. Topspeed 62 km/h. This is the model Alex Hofer flew to Monaco and second place during the 2009 X-alps.

Right now there’s a bunch of UP Trango X-lights crossing the Himalayas with Brad Sander under one of them. You can follow them on http://www.himalayanodyssey.org/

And now i have one here in Ã…re. Sooo please bring on the thermals!!!

Happy Fred :-)

Yesterday :-)

Posted on March 16, 2010 by admin.
Categories: Ã…re.

Yesterday was a very nice day here in Ã…re, Sweden.

Me and Jonna went for some powder skiing/boarding and found some good stashes of the white fluff. The last snowfall was good but the wind transported it to the eastsides. Abit unstable but nice as long as U avoided steep stuff. Oh yeah, the sun was shining too…

After some hiking we met up with Jonnas parents and after some more skiing we had a coffe and chilled in the sun. :-)

I took this photo of Jonna with my Iphone using the Hipstamatic application. Fantastic! Soo nice colours. Oldschool in a new way.

At the end of the day my legs were tired and we went home for sauna and beer ;-)

But where is the flyingweather??? I’ll get my new glider anyday now… Thermals, please come!!!

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Time for a new harness? Generation X is here ;-)

Posted on March 13, 2010 by admin.
Categories: Ã…re.

I’d check the new line from Supair. At the moment i’m flying the NEW Hybrid2 and loving it! The hybrid2 has new buckles, new backsupport, new reservepocket, and some other small things that makes it perfect.

But the seasons real news is the new Shamane, a racy reversible harness. Finally!!!

A new generation harnesses is about to storm the market! Light and fast! Advance Lightness is another superlight racy thang.

I’m shure this is the future of harnesses. Light and reversible. :-)

Spring is here!!! Sweet!

Posted on March 7, 2010 by admin.
Categories: Ã…re.

Today it’s sunday, it’s snowing and cloudbase is low.

So i will update my blogg.

me and Jonnas crib.

The most important coffe. The morning one…

During the last week we have had bbq on our veranda twice! Spring is here finally. Thanks, i had enough of winter.

The last two days we had nice weather and some good flying. On friday i did 6 tandemflights and alot of people flew from the mountain. It’s been week 9, the schoolholiday for the people of Stockholm. Highseason for Ã…re.

Me and PÃ¥l finished the day with tandemflights from tha actual top of Ã…reskutan. Two very happy girls got the pleasure of taking of from the fantastic backside of the mountain. Very scenic indeed. Check out these pics:

Yesterday the meteo promised at least morningflights. So it was to be. I did a tandemflight with my good friend James Holm. We had a nice little flight from Valvet in sunshine and ok conditions. He got som nice pics from the flight. Larsa also flew with us. Though he took a different route… ;-)

2 Photos above by www.jamesholm.se

Later me and James took a Audi A5 Sportback for a spinn down on the icetrack on the lake. Needless to say we got stuck aside the track… haha. Good fun was had.

Earlier in the week i went for two evening skateboardsessions. On wednesday i started out realy lame. Managed fuck all… Then i had a sweet slam on a frontside boneless, and wips, i was back on track doing my stuff nice and easy. Happy Fred.

Micke at SvartstÃ¥l.se needed a hand to lift a gearbox out of a pickup. So now i have done that too. Intresting for me to see how it works. It was a 4×4 car soo an extra piece on it. haha…

Other things that have happened this week is that i got a parking ticket. That sucked. 60 euros. :-(

Still havent sorted xc glider for 2010, all i have is an old Gin Boomerang3.

Today i chated with the Swedish dealer for Gin and he told me he’s about to recive the 3 first Gin Boom GTO in a week or soo. Intressting. He also told me he’s been flying a proto for the up and coming Gradient Avax xc3 and he says it rocks!

Here’s an old picture of Pierre flying in Hammars backar, Sweden.

Here’s a photo i really like from a trip to the south of Sweden. Beautiful huh?

On the Little Cloud side of the world, we are still waiting for the classification of the Bidule. The Bidule is a 31m2 small tandem that will be perfect for alot of pilots. For us big boys it will be both single and tandemglider since the weightrange will be 100-200 kilos. The weight of the glider is 6 kilos. Easy to carry when traveling. So perfect for tandemcouples traveling around. Remember, two gliders in one… For the price of one:-)

Nick, Micke, Brett have been up flying their Spirulines lately and all are saying the same. It’s soooo much fun!
Lars at Skysport has tried it in Schooling for groundhandling. Worked perfect!

I have a Spiruline 18(2009) demo in mint condition for sale. Send mail for price and info.

Take care and see U in the air

Fred