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New Flytec 5030 and Compeo firmware and functions

Update in beta test (Quest Air)

Steve Kroop at Flytec USA <<info>> writes:

The new version is a beta test version and is not released yet.  I will put it up on the Flytec USA (www.flytec.com) website as soon as it is released.  If you use FlyChart, version 4.52.6 (http://www.flytec.com/Products/Software/FlyChart_452.htm) or later is recommended.

The improvements are:

New user field: L/D to required to goal (over several waypoints)
Display of the acoustic gap for McCready
Bug fixed if if more than 100 flights in the memory
No recording of flight if flight time is less than three minutes

New flight recording rules:

If GPS is on and (Avg.  60s of GPS Speed is greater than 10km/h or Delta height since Start greater than 30 meters) then flight is recorded.

If GPS is off and (Delta height since Start greater 30m) then flight is recorded.

User-field compatibility ->New user-fields always at the end of the list for the external interface (FlyChart).  In the instrument, the order can be arbitrary

Additional Speed offset 0-10km/h if the 5030 is configured to use the pitot tube.  This is there to correct the influence of the slower air speed under the wing.

New User-field XT Error (Cross track Error).  This user-field shows the perpendicular distance to the active leg of a route.  The precision depends on the length of the active leg and is poorest in the middle of the leg between two waypoints.  For example if the leg is 50km, the fault can be 400m in the middle of the leg.  This because the angles between the line between the two waypoints and your new heading to the waypoint becomes very small.  The user-field shows positive values if you are right of the track and negative values if you are left of the track.

Discuss 5030 at the Oz Report forum

Setting paraglider records in South Africa

On Thursday (de Aar, South Africa)

http://www.fly-safari.com/

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5486 

Urban and Aljaž Valic made two new world records each.  They set new distances for:

- Straight flight to declared goal, which is now 368 km,

- Free straight flight, new the longest flight is approximately 425 km.

Urban's flight here and Aljaž's here.

Discuss Records at the Oz Report forum

Fires in Victoria

A fire storm? (Mystic Hill)

Heather <hmull> writes re the Bogong Cup, coming up in January:

We're expecting a windy weekend of 40 degrees here (NE Victoria) and the fire services are getting ready for what they say will be the worst fire weekend ever recorded.  The predicted northerly winds should keep us out of trouble, but further south towards Gippsland is a real problem for people there with the many approaching fires predicted to join up into a superfire.

Fire hazard has been a real enough threat in past years at the Bogong Cup, but for pilots who smoke, this is advance warning that smoking out in the open on launch or in a landing field will likely result in removal of the pilot from the rest of the competition.

We're looking forward to a great competition with possibly the highest pilot calibre field we've ever had!

Gilbert Griffith <gil> writes:

For the last two days we have had less than 1km visibility here in Bright.  Pretty smoky.  But the fires are well away from us and the coming winds should push them further away.  Lots of ash falling, but nothing alight.  Been picking up leaves and cleaning up the garden as well as the garden next door.  The bush needs a good burn out.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1807044.htm

Discuss Fire at the Oz Report forum

Clarification from CIVL re upcoming meets

The CIVL competition calendar was mistaken, but the Oz Report reports were correct (Lausanne, Switzerland)

A couple of readers wrote in to say that the CIVL calendar contradicted my reports from the CIVL Bureau meeting.  I checked with CIVL President, Flip Koetsier <f.koetsier>, and here's what he says:

Thank you for drawing my attention to the competition calendar.  Something is terribly wrong on the competition calendar.  I don't know what caused the mistakes.  I have taken actions to correct the information on the calendar.

To make things clear:

At the next plenary (early February 2007) the next championships are supposed be awarded (this is from the bid guidelines and this information has been sent to all CIVL delegates and FAI member countries) for the following meets:

- World hang gliding championship in 2009

- World paragliding championship in 2009

- World Accuracy paragliding championship in 2009

- European hang gliding class 2 and 5 and Women's class 1 championships in 2009

In the competition calendar you found that we have received bids from Italy to organise the women's, class 2 and class 5 world championships in 2009.  That is not correct (also see the to be awarded championships; there, of course, would be no worlds hang gliding class 2 and 5 and women's class 1 in 2009, as that would be scheduled for 2008 and 2010).

We have also not received bids for the European hang gliding class 2 and 5 and women's class 1 championships.

"No word about the 2008 worlds hang gliding class 5", because:

At the 2006 plenary (last February) we could have awarded the 2008 world championships hang gliding class 2 and 5 and women's class 1, but no bids were received and we have not been able to find an organiser.

CIVL internal regulations 3.6.4 states: If CIVL was not able to award a scheduled championship two years ahead of the competition, the CIVL bureau should try to find an organiser.  If an acceptable organiser is found and he delivers a bid, the bureau may award the competition to this organiser.  This decision is subject to approval of the CIVL plenary meeting.

The plenary meeting has approved that the bureau should try to find organisers for the championships that no bids were received for.  The bureau has not been able to find an organiser for the world championships hang gliding class 2, 5 and women's class 1.

By the way, we also did not receive a bid for the European hang gliding championships 2008.  I then contacted Wolfgang Sattleger, and as you know the Europeans will be in Greifenburg.

We have also not received a bid for the World hang gliding championships in 2009 yet, so the bid from Italy (that you refer to and that you found on the competition calendar) is not correct.  Italy made a bid to organise the paragliding World Championships and that is it.

Sorry for the wrong information on the competition calendar.  It will be corrected.

Discuss CIVL at the Oz Report forum

The other paragliding world record set in South Africa

On Thursday also (de Aar, South Africa)

The FAI reports:

Sub-class O-3 (Paragliders)
Multiplace Category
Type of record : Straight distance Course/location : Vosburg (South Africa) - Krompoort Farm (South Africa)
Performance : 356.2 km
Pilot : Richard WESTGATE (UK) Crew : BIBBY Phil
Paraglider : Gradient Golden Bi Date: 07.12.2006
Current record : 299.7 km (17.10.2003 - André Luis GROSSO FLEURY, Brazil)

Discuss Record at the Oz Report forum

The 2007 pre-European Flex Wing Championships

(This topic is in: Dec.11 Dec.8 )

A better web site. (Greifenburg, Austria)

http://ozreport.com/10.246#2

Koos says to go to this web site here or better yet here for English.

Discuss pre-Europeans at the Oz Report forum

Class 2 ATOS

Fly your ATOS in a fuselage (FlyDesign, Germany)

Thanks to Steward Midwinter who sent this link: http://www.fliegen-ist.de/html/charly_produkte.htm

It's already made its first test flight, from a tow-launch.  It will be foot-launchable, stick-controlled, with the pilot in the wing, and promises a significant performance boost over stock Atoses.

Christoph at AIR writes:

We will show our ATOS Cage at Thermik, the project we have worked on for years on it where the pilot is in the wing.

Discuss ATOS at the Oz Report forum

Jonny's story

Of his 500 km flight (Canungra, Australia)

http://ozreport.com/otherblogs.php#jonnydurand.blogspot.com

Discuss Jon Durand at the Oz Report forum

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