The 2006/2007 USA On-line Contest (Segelflugszene)
GOAL. The goal of the 'US Hang Gliding and Paragliding Online Contest' (HOLC) is to encourage cross country flying by the timely scoring of cross-country flights, free from the burden of
preflight declarations, to allow an easy and up-to-date comparison of cross country flights.
The proposed rules are
here.
1. Registration. There is no registration or participation fee. Register
here.
Click "Registration" on right side of the drop down menu bar. If you were registered before,
click "Contest Registration Update." If you are new to the HOLC, click "Contest
Registration," in the drop down menu item. Fill out the forms.
2. Login. You can ease things a bit by logging onto the HOLC before you make a
flight claim. You do this after you register the first time or after you update
your registration. When you registered for 2007 you entered a username and
password. When
here
enter your username and password in the fields located on the left under "MyOLC
login." Then click the "OK" button just to the right of the password field. Now
you are logged in.
3. Creating a track log (IGC file). You'll want to fly with a 3D GPS that can
store a tracklog. This tracklog needs to be downloaded to your computer using
software and a cable to create an IGC-formatted file on your computer.
You
can use Compe-GPS (www.compegps.com) or SeeYou (www.seeyou.ws)
or the free program Maxpunkte (www.maxpunkte.de
- sorry the web site is in German but you can use Google to translate it, the
program is in English) to create IGC files on your computer which you can then
upload to the HOLC web site. You can perhaps find more software
here. (See below for more information on these programs.)
4. Evaluation and scoring points. The software on the HOLC server will check and
optimize your flight for you from your uploaded IGC file.
5. Uploading flights. Flight claims will be accepted
here.
Or go
here, click "Claim Flight" in the drop down menus, then click "Direct Claim
(IGC-file)."
6. Contest period for 2006/2007. October 10th, 2006 to October 8th, 2007.
7. The US Hang Gliding and Paragliding Online Contest Champions for 2006/2007 will be the three participants who score the highest number of points with
six flights in paragliders (Class 3), flex wings (Class 1), and rigid wings
(Class 5).
8. All of your flights used in the US portion
of the Online contest must have started within the US.
HOLC Secrets
1. You'll notice that you have to upload a 3D
tracklog (IGC file) to the HOLC. Depending on your flight instruments the free program Maxpunkte 4.8,
FlyChart (which comes with your Flytec or Brauniger instruments), SeeYou 3.6, CompeGPS or other program found
here will be able to create
such an IGC file for you. If you have a 3D GPS, its easy to download it with Maxpunkte or other software to place a 3D IGC tracklog on your computer.
Maxpunkte also let's you combine some varios with 2D GPSes to create a 3D
tracklog.
2. If you wish to use Maxpunkte 4.8 (or later) to create 3D IGC files from your instruments
go to www.maxpunkte.de. This web site is in German. If
you wish to read it in English go to here
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
or click on the translate button found at the Maxpunkte web site and follow the simple instructions
to translate to English or any other language supported by this site.
3. To download MaxPunkte 4.8 (or later) right click "MaxPunkte Setup" at
www.maxpunkte.de. Click "Save Target As" and then
click "Save," (in Internet Explorer).
4. Install Maxpunkte.You can use Maxpunkte to download an tracklog to your
computer.
5. If you are downloading flights from your Flytec 5030 or Compeo, use the
FlyChart software to create the IGC files on your computer. Don't use SeeYou
which often doesn't download the files correctly from the 5030 or Compeo.
6. Once you have created a IGC file for your flight you can easily upload it to
the HOLC using the Flight Claim menu as indicated above (step 5).
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