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Oz Report

Volume 22, Number 126
Monday, June 25 2018
Quest Air, Sheets airfield, Groveland, Florida, USA
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"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

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Fri, Jun 22 2018, 6:38:31 am MDT
0.1 km too short

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Corinna Schwiegershausen|record

FAI Records «record» sends:

Category : Female
Type of record : Straight distance
Course/location : Forbes, NSW (Australia)
Performance : 408.1 km
Pilot : Alexandra Serebrennikova (Russia)
Aircraft : Litespeed RX 3 / Moyes Delta Gliders
Date : 2018-01-02
Current record : 407.2 km (2017-11-05 - Corinna Schwiegerhausen, Germany)
Reason for cancellation: Does not outperform with minimum margin

3.2.4 Minimum Increase in Flight Performance

3.2.4.1 Distance flight To be recognised as a new record all distance flights must exceed the previous record by a minimum of one kilometre, speed flights must better the previous record flight performance by 0.1 km/h the gain of height record must show an improvement of minimum of 100m.

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Fri, Jun 22 2018, 6:39:24 am MDT
The first day of winter

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to Table of Contentsto next topic Flytec 6030 Software for WGS84 distance calculation

Fri, Jun 22 2018, 2:25:11 pm MDT
A whole new earth ($50)

Joerg Ewald

Flytec 6030|Joerg Ewald

https://b2b.naviter.com/product/flytec-6030-software-for-wgs84-distance-calculation/

Joerg Ewald writes:

Get your Flytec 6030 / Bräuniger Compeo+ ready for 2018 and beyond.

There is a new firmware available for the 6030/Compeo+:

V5.00b's main addition is the capability to switch between FAI sphere and WGS84 ellipsoid for distance calculation.  To get that, follow these steps:

1. Download the newest firmware from here: https://www.naviter.com/download-manual-support/#Flytec ("Flytec 6030 firmware 5.00b")

2. Install the firmware on your vario (requires a Windows computer). Older 6030/Compeo+ work with everything up to Windows 7. If your vario was produced after August 2014, or has had its communication chip upgraded, it will also work with Windows 8 or 10.

3. Purchase the release code for WGS84 distance calculation (see link above). The proceeds go fully towards continued support and maintenance for the 6030/Compeo+.

4. Once you get the release code by email (be patient please, this step has not been automated yet, so it's manual labor on our end), enter it under Menu - Device settings - Software options - Package 06 WGS84 distance calculation

5. Switch between FAI sphere and WGS84 under Menu - Device settings - Earth model.

So what's going on here?  Currently the 6030 uses the FAI sphere as its earth model for doing distance calculations and to determine if you have entered the cylinder around a turnpoint.  The new version of the scoring system (2018 version) wants you to use the WGS-84 ellipsoid earth model.  See here: http://ozreport.com/22.122.

This will be mandated for category 1 hang gliding competition starting next year.

It will not be required by US hang gliding competitions (at least the ones we run).

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to Table of Contentsto next topic Digifly's CIVL Rules Compliance

Fri, Jun 22 2018, 5:34:30 pm MDT
Earth models

CIVL|Digifly Europe srl

http://www.digiflyusa.com/

Digifly's CIVL Rules Compliance

As many of you may already know, the CIVL recently published its official and finalized document on the model that will be used for distance calculation during FAI Cat.  1 (World and Continental Championships): the FAI SPHERE.

This is not necessarily the rule for Cat.2s, where organizers may decide not to use the FAI Sphere and continue to use the WGS84 model instead.

In case any of you are wondering if this affects the coordinates in any way, don't worry, it doesn't. The coordinates remain the same and it is simply the model used to calculate the distance that differs.

Digifly is committed to being fully compliant with CIVL rules and regulations and to enable all of our customers to be compliant as well; this is one of the reasons why our firmware upgrades are completely free.  In order to be ready for the peak of the competition season, our team decided to implement this feature a while ago.

The REMINDER in this case, is to make sure that you are well aware of the fact that our 502m firmware version, officially released some months ago already comes with this important feature!  On the Digifly AIR's MAIN SETUP you will be able to choose between FAI Sphere and WGS84.

Moreover, the next parameter down, will allow you to set the tolerance, another feature that was implemented with firmware version 502m!

Actually I think that they have it backwards.  It should read:

As many of you may already know, the CIVL recently published its official and finalized document on the model that will be used for distance calculation during FAI Cat.  1 (World and Continental Championships): the WGS 84 earth model.

This is not necessarily the rule for Cat.2s, where organizers may decide to use the FAI Sphere and not use the WGS84 model.

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