This site is managed by Hvittingfoss Luftsporklubb. !! Remember the TMA, height limit, 3500 feet (1067 meters) and the short distance to the 762 meter limit towards east. Pilots at the landing will explain how to find the start and tell you what you need. This is one of the most popular paragliding sites in Norway and you will probably find pilots here whenever the conditions are good. The landing field is partly surrounded by trees so during strong wind keep distance from the trees. The landing might be turbulent, both thermal and mechanical. The road goes all the way up to the take off, but only 4WD are allowed the last section (about 600 m). The barrier is closed with a combination lock, you need the code to open it (ask local club or other pilots). You will find the road to take off about 1,5 km at RV32 from the roundabout in Hvittingfoss, direction Hof, small road on the left hand side, you can see the road barrier from the main road. The landing field is located on the right side when driving from Hvittingfoss towards Kongsberg, about 1km from Hvittingfoss. For international transfer see details at. You can pay with "Vipps", foreign visitors may also use our PayPal solution at: There are almost always pilots around to give you the boom gate code and show you how to pay.Įntry fee NOK.65, - per pilot, per day (to cover some of the road, take-off and landing rent). Enough room for 6 gliders to layout at a time. The Associated Press contributed to this report.Start Direction South. Spokesman Antonello Laveglia of the Federal Office of Civil Aviation said it planned to “reconstruct the events” of the flight and would hear the pilot’s account. Switzerland’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday it will question the hang-glider pilot. Gursky did not respond to requests from the Guardian for comment.īut on social media, he concluded: “Still can’t cross hang gliding off the bucket list till I finish a successful flight!” he told his Facebook followers. But he told Cross Country Magazine he bore the pilot no ill will. He said that he fractured his wrist in the incident and tore his left biceps tendon. “I looked down to see my feet hit first, which ripped me off at about 45 mph as it was a hot landing and I was under the landing gear.” In the video, the pilot appears to have trouble bringing the glider in for a quick landing at this point, and the two end up flying over a steep wooded hillside. “I ended up holding on to the bar with the left hand and the lower part of his leg with the right when we were nearing the ground.” “The pilot grabbed my hand, but like in the movies it was a slow-motion slipping of the grip until my right hand slipped off and I grabbed another strap on his left side for a bit, but this slipped off also. ![]() As we were going down for a hot landing I was slowly losing my grip with my right hand as I was swinging in the wind with the glider. ![]() “I was losing grip with my right hand that was holding onto a strap on the pilot’s right shoulder … my left hand was on the crossbar. “I remember looking down and thinking, ‘this is it’,” Gursky wrote in a Facebook post, since deleted, in which he described his 2min 14sec ordeal from a mountaintop in Interlaken. The Go-Pro footage shows the pilot’s frantic efforts to keep a grip on his passenger with one hand, once he realises he is unattached, while trying to control the glider with the other and frantically looking for somewhere to land as quickly as possible.Gursky, 53, dangles beside and below him and reaches out with his own right arm for anything to grab on to. ![]() ![]() It then turned into Gursky’s miracle flight, which ended with a 45mph “hot landing” that shattered the photographer’s wrist, has been viewed 1.5 million times in a video that has gone viral on YouTube. Gursky’s grand adventure quickly turned into a terrifying fight for survival, with him grasping desperately at the instructor’s leg, shoulder and a crossbar to avoid plunging to his death. “I was expecting to level out above the pilot as we went, but quickly discovered that my harness was not attached to the hang glider or anything else.” We waited a bit for the updraft to pick up and then we ran till we left the side of the 4,000ft mountain edge. Then my pilot and I lined up for take-off. “Gail and her pilot took off first … looked cool as hell. Gursky, a Florida-based vehicle parts manager and photographer, told his story on Facebook soon after the incident. On Monday Gursky posted the footage to YouTube under the title “Swiss Mishap”, including the warning: “Content may be disturbing to some. The incident happened in October while Gursky and his wife Gail were on holiday in Interlaken in Switzerland, from their home in Florida, according to Cross Country Magazine.
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