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Investigation into 2D fixes

September 6, 2018, 6:50:03 pm MDT

Investigation into 2D fixes

Wesley still finding issues with the Flytec 6030

Flytec 6030|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill> writes:

I am still finding position errors, which are consistent with 2D fixes, when the GPS chip is reporting 3D fixes. I need to do more testing - but I'm not sure if there is a solution for those errors.

Fixed IGC file for 2D fixes

August 30, 2018, 7:20:57 pm MDT

Fixed IGC file for 2D fixes

So far Oudie and now SkyDrop

CIVL|Flytec 6030|record|Wesley "Wes" Hill

https://instinct.pro/products/skydrop-gps-vario

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

SkyDrop released new firmware a few days ago.

"Build 4016 - 24. 07. 2018

FIX:

* IGC altitude bug #346

* IGC distinguish between 2D/3D fix recording"

I have tested my SkyDrop with this firmware and it correctly identified 2D fixes in the IGC file.

There are still a few issues unresolved:

Flytec 6030 - I believe 2D fixes are not correctly recorded in Flytec 6030's with the FURUNO chip. I have insufficient data for an analysis of other chips used in the Flytec 6030 (proof that it records them properly would be a few consecutive 2D fixes in an IGC file with 1 second interval).

We have a number of instruments that forward NMEA sentences to various Apps. Of the three instruments I have checked, none of them forward the $GPGSA sentence. That means that any App that is used with those instruments is incapable of producing a valid IGC file.

The three instruments I have checked (looking at their documentation, or indicated in emails from the manufacturer) are SkyDrop, Flytec 6030 and LXNAV Nano.

I have also checked the source code from XCSoar and it appears to store 2D fixes as 3D fixes.

The list of CIVL Cat 1 Approved Instruments will need to be updated to show that firmware prior to the recent updates for Oudie and SkyDrop cannot be used.

It is unclear just what applications (Apps) Wesley is referring to. Perhaps GPSDump. I think of Apps as on phones. Wesley apparently doesn't use that nomenclature. I've asked for clarification.

Investigation into 2D fixes

August 23, 2018, 8:14:04 MDT

Investigation into 2D fixes

Can we actually believe our track logs?

CIVL|Flytec 6030|record|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

About 20 years ago. I was scoring a competition at Mt Buffalo, and one of the pilots was flying with a MLR GPS and a Garmin backup. On one day the pilot saw that his MLR was not receiving many satellites. He'd heard that you could get better position information using '2D mode' and manually switched to this (this used to be a common feature of marine GPSs). When he downloaded his tracklog he used the Garmin - it showed him missing a turnpoint. So we checked his MLR and it showed he got the turnpoint. Comparing the two tracklogs, you could see them diverge at the time he switched to '2D mode', and the difference in position seemed to be proportional to the height difference.

When I saw Tom's tracklogs from the Europeans it instantly reminded of those tracklogs from 20 years ago.

I contacted Naviter and advised them that I thought the errors in Tom's Oudie tracklog were incorrectly recorded 2D fixes. I got the impression that they disagreed with my assessment.

Next I tested a friend's Oudie. We took it for a road test while partially covering it with foil to degrade the GPS fix status. This test showed a deviation from the road that looked a lot like the deviation that occurred in Tom's tracklog. This file also has B records with fix validity = V, ie 2D or 'no fix' B records. Looking closer at these specific B records, it could be determined that they were all 'no fix' records as the Lat/Long were constant. So this tracklog contained, according the the IGC file, only 3D and 'no fix' points. This is a highly unlikely occurrence, as you would expect a transition from 3D to 'no fix' would have some 2D fixes in between.

At this point, I felt justified in contacting CIVL and sent them the information.

Ultimately, in order to verify how accurate an IGC file is, you need both the IGC file and a log showing the output from the GPS chip. A quick read of the Oudie manual showed 2 possible methods. The first involved running an existing NMEA log as a simulation (the manual does not state whether this will produce an IGC file). The second involves opening up a 'terminal' which can show the NMEA output and which can then be saved. I don't have easy access to an Oudie, so I decided to be prepared to conduct both tests next time the opportunity came along. That meant creating a NMEA log that could be used in the simulation. I have an old Garmin, so I took it for a road test and captured the NMEA log. I have not yet carried out these tests.

I do have a SkyDrop, so I decided to also test this instrument. The SkyDrop has a screen that shows GPS fix status. A static test showed that screen displayed 'no fix', 2D and 3D fixes. We then took it for a road test while attempting to get 10 seconds of continuous 2D fixes as displayed on the screen. The road test produced an IGC file with large position errors (and obvious GPS altitude errors associated with those errors during the early parts of the tracklog). There was also a >10 second period, identified from the GPS screen, as having 2D fixes. The IGC file identified 3D fixes and 'no fix' data, there were no 2D fixes recorded. The 10 second section of tracklog identified as 2D fixes was also recorded as 3D fixes.

I notified SkyDrop and they referred to a (faulty) definition of 2D fixes from the IGC Specifications. They also advised me how to record a NMEA log using the debug mode. I took the SkyDrop for a walk and captured a NMEA log with several 2D fixes, including one 7 second sequence. Most of these 2D fixes were recorded as 3D fixes in the IGC file, the exceptions were all the first 2d fix in a sequence of 2D fixes (timing error?). SkyDrop has been notified but are yet to respond.

Since I score competitions occasionally, I have a large quantity of tracklogs, most of which are from 6030s. I looked at about 120 of them and found eight that had B records with fix validity = V. It seems that most pilots use a tracklog interval of 2 or 3 seconds with these instruments so it was not always possible to identify these as 2D or 'no fix' records. So I started to look for GPS height errors either side of those B records. I was able to identify, in 3 of those files, B records recorded as 3D fixes where the GPS height did not change for a significant period of time (this is the method of height prediction used by my Garmin for 2D fixes). It seems highly probable that these are 2D fixes recorded as 3D fixes. Being able to compare those tracklogs to a backup might provide additional information, but ultimately you need a log with 2D fixes to compare to an IGC file. I am not aware of any method where I can obtain a log from a 6030 to compare to its IGC file (It appears to be possible to send some NMEA sentences via bluetooth, but the sentence which identifies the fix status is not included). Volirium have been notified and I am waiting for a response.

Since 6030s (and SkyDrop) only send and sentences via bluetooth, I was wondering how XCSoar was identifying 2D fixes. The code is open source so I checked and found this: /* "Use A for a 3D fix and V for a 2D fix (no GPS altitude) or for no GPS data" */ gps_valid = basic.location_available && basic.gps_altitude_available;

The comment appears to be quote from the (IGC) TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR GNSS FLIGHT RECORDERS. The code does not check the sentence, which is the only way to identify a 2D fix. Garbage in, garbage out. I have so far been unable to contact the XCSoar developers.

In summary, I believe that Oudie, SkyDrop and 6030 instruments all record 2D fixes as 3D fixes, as does XCSoar. Fixing the firmware should be a relatively simple process.

IMPORTANT REFERENCE INFORMATION

So what is a 2D fix - seems obvious, a fix in Lat/Long. The (IGC) TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR GNSS FLIGHT RECORDERS (http://www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/documents/tech_spec_gnss.pdf) states the following: "2D Position - a navigational position giving horizontal data (ie lat/long) but not vertical (altitude). In GNS Systems, at least three position lines (ie correct data from three satellites) are needed for a 2D fix."

Unfortunately, this is not correct. The main problem with this definition is it states that a 2D position does not give an altitude.

A 2D fix is a fix giving Lat/Long as you would expect, but the GPS uses a height that is predicted (assumed/guessed) in order to calculate that 2D position, and that height is also included in the NMEA output it produces. A 2D fix is only accurate if the height used is correct. When looking at the NMEA output from a GPS, a 2D fix is identified by the NMEA GSA sentence with the number 2 in the second data position (,A,2,...). See https://www.gpsinformation.org/dale/nmea.htm#GSA. I suspect instrument manufactures are just checking the NMEA GGA sentence for the fix height and recording it as a 3D fix if the height is there.

TESTING IT YOURSELF

I have verified the above reference information using my old Garmin (and a lot of Googling). You can verify it yourself with an old Garmin. Turn it on and monitor the fix status, when it changes to 2D fix you will see the height displayed (it uses the last known height), and when it changes to 3D fix the height will change to your current location's height.

As a more advanced test, set your Garmin to record 1 sec intervals and work out some way to capture the NMEA output (I used HyperTerminal PE, make sure you know what settings are needed and activate capture). Now go somewhere with a >200m height difference (from when it was last used) and turn on the Garmin while capturing the NMEA output. You will now have access to a nmea log which you can compare to the tracklog from your Garmin. Note the jump in position when the Garmin switches from 2D to 3D fixes, and that height is recorded for 2D fixes.

If you want to test your Oudie I am happy to provide the NMEA log for use in simulation mode. If you want to record the NMEA output using the terminal feature, I would suggest a road test at a different location (preferably hilly) and height to where it last had a GPS fix. This will slow down the the transition from 'no fix' to 2D fix to 3D fix. Make sure you're in motion when you turn it on so that it starts recoding an IGC file as soon as possible, if it switches to 3D fixes quickly you may need to degrade the GPS status using foil in order to get 2D fixes. Monitor the NMEA GSA sentence on the terminal screen to see if you have 2D fixes.

Testing the SkyDrop is easy - make sure you know how to record the NMEA log using the debug feature, then go to a new location/height and do a road test. Hopefully you will get some 2D fixes before it switches to 3D, but you can use foil to block the GPS signals if necessary.

For the 6030s, I only have single tracklogs. An additional test that could be performed would be a road test (again, change location and height before turning on and pick a hilly location). Optional - allow a second instrument to get a 3D fix first to compare with. Start driving and turn on the 6030. Monitor the GPS height on the screen, I would expect it show the last known height when it gets a 2D fix, then jump to a height close to the current height when it gets a 3D fix. You can now compare the tracklog (IGC file) to the actual road and see if there are errors in the recorded position.

Does anyone know how to get an NMEA log from the 6030 without attaching wires to its GPS chip? It should be noted that 6030s do not all have the same GPS chip, so their method of predicting height may vary. The FURUNO chip uses the last GPS height from a 3D fix, other chips may give different results (the chip type is recorded in the IGC file).

Wesley sent me a set of IGC files that confirms what he has stated here. Further he wrote:

The altitude errors are happening adjacent to 'no fix' records which is when you would expect 2D fixes.

I think all the developers are under the impression that a 2D fix does not have an altitude. This is not correct - the log from my Garmin (CAPTURE260718.TXT) shows sentences indicating a 2D fix and a GPS altitude in the correspong sentence.

Its critical to note that (for the Oudie) all the B records with Fix validity = V are 'no fix' records (Lat/Long matches previous records Lat/Long), there are no 2D fixes recorded at all. You would expect some 2d fixes during the transition between 3D and 'no fix'.

For the SkyDrop, DEBUG.LOG shows sentences marked as 2D fixes, but most of them are recorded as 3D fixes in 09-0134.IGC (only the first in a sequence is recorded as 2D/'no fix', probably some sort of timing error).

For the 6030 file (olav020118.igc), a GPS speed analysis shows that all (probably) of the B records with fix validity = V are 'no fix' records. Not so precise as it is a 2 second recording interval, so a 3D fix might have occurred and not been recorded resulting in a speed approx 50% of the average speed.

Wesley has just received Blenky's IGC file from his Flytec 6030 and is evaluating it.

Vicki's wrap on the Forbes Flatlands

January 18, 2016, 9:47:04 EST

Vicki's wrap on the Forbes Flatlands

So happy that Jonny won.

Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Bobby Bailey|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Michael "Zupy" Zupanc|record|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Vicki Cain|Wesley "Wes" Hill|Wills Wing T2C|Yoko Isomoto

Vicki Cain <<Vicki>> writes:

Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships 2016

What started out looking like it was going to be the worst Forbes comp ever turned out to be one of the best! I think we'll be talking about this one for a long time to come! It's all about the numbers! Our 10th consecutive Forbes Flatlands competition. 62 Pilots from 13 Countries 22 Crew from all over All together in 1 place, for 10 days, doing what we love, having fun, seeing old friends, making new friends and making the most of this amazing sport.

Conditions turned on for task 4 to allow us to set the longest task ever in a hang gliding competition. 368 km from Forbes to Walgett. A massive 26 pilots made the task, that's 41% of the field!

It was a personal best flight for all at goal except for Jonny Durand, Len Paton and Guy Hubbard. And a World Record flight for the only female pilot to make goal, the current World Champion Yoko Isomoto. And the Forbes mantra rings true "How Good is Forbes!"

All this made possible by so many people. Thank you: Meet Director: Wesley Hill. Operations: Thea O'Connor. Launch Director: Michael Zupanc. Goal Marshall: Rob Van Der Klooster. Bill and Molly Moyes and the tug pilots Bobby Bailey, Steve McCarthy, Bruce Crerar, Blaino and Marco Carelli. Launch crew: Richard Nevins, Sue Nevins, Lizzy Nevins, Jack Nevins, Yes the whole Nevins family! Christina Quinn, Tony Hanlon, Annie Crerar, Bena, Linda Zupanc. The Task Committee: Gerolf Heinrichs, Jonny Durand, Bruce Wynne. Safety Committee: Gordon Rigg, Lukas Bader, Nils Vesk. Protest Committee: Steve Blenkinsop, Glenn McFarlane, Trent Brown.

We set 6 Tasks totaling over 1000 kms with the leaders averaging 160 km per day, that's close to 100 miles per day! The consistent flying at Forbes is why we come back year after year. How good is Forbes!

Congratulations to all the winners!

Top 10 Open Class

10th Olav Opsanger Norway Moyes RX 3.5
9th Gavin Myers Australia Moyes RX 5
8th Fredy Bircher Switzerland Moyes RX 3.5
7th Lukas Bader Germany Moyes RS 4
6th Josh Woods Australia Moyes RX 3.5
5th Len Paton Australia Moyes RS 4
4th Glen McFarlane Australia Wills Wing T2C 144
3rd Jason Kath Australia Wills Wing T2C 144
2nd Michael Jackson Australia Moyes LSS 5
And a most deserved win with a dominant performance, and his 6th Forbes Flatlands title
1st Jonny Durand Australia Moyes RX 3.5

Women Class: 1st Alexandra Serebrennikova Russia Moyes RX 3

Sport Class: 1st Noel Bear Australia Moyes Gecko 155

Forbes A Grade Award: 1st Josh Woods Australia Moyes RX 3.5

Forbes Council Encouragement Award: Howard Jones Australia Moyes RX 3.5

Thank you to all the pilots and their support crews for making the trek to Forbes, we hope you had the time of your life ; )

Full results can be found at www.forbesflatlands.com

Photo credits to Michael Zupanc Peak Pictures and Christina Quinn.

Altitude display and recording

February 2, 2015, 8:39:53 EST

Altitude display and recording

How are you supposed to know how high you are?

CIVL|Flytec 6030|PG|record|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill points out:

http://www.fai.org/downloads/civl/SC_7A

5 SCORING 1ST CATEGORY EVENTS

5. 1 General

The detailed rules for scoring 1st Category competitions are now contained in the document CIVL GAP - Centralised Cross-Country Competition Scoring System for Hang-Gliding and Paragliding. In case of conflicts between this document and the CIVL GAP document then the CIVL GAP document shall take precedence.

http://www.fai.org/downloads/civl/SC7_GAP

4. 3 Altitude

Altitude evaluation is based on GPS altitude, as given in GPS tracklogs.

4. 3.1 New altitude measurement

Starting January 1st, 2015, altitude evaluation is based both on GPS and barometric altitude, as given in GPS tracklogs. Only GPS tracks where GPS altitude is given in reference to the Geoid4, as delivered by all commercial GPS modules, will be accepted in CIVL’s FAI Category 1 events.

By default, in CIVL’s FAI Category 1 events, the altitude values used in final glide decelerators and to determine altitude bonus in stopped task are calculated from a combination of GPS and barometric altitude, using the Dimov5 True Altitude algorithm. To score tasks taking into account the calculated true altitude values, a score keeper must either pre-process the raw tracklog files with the software published by Daniel Dimov, or, if supported by the scoring software, use the built-in functionality of the scoring software to the same effect.

Organisers may choose to use the less accurate pure GPS altitude instead.

Airspace violation checks rely exclusively on GPS altitude for the time being.

You Flytec 6030 or Brauniger Compeo+ prominently displays Barographic altitude (although you can get these instruments to display GPS altitude in a user field). You can see why this might be a problem in the 2015 Worlds in Mexico if they set any altitude limits.

Telomoyo Cup Indonesia

October 18, 2014, 9:20:22 MDT

Telomoyo Cup Indonesia

Cross winds and then a day of spot landings

Tove Heaney|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Tove Heaney <<hannah>> writes:

No flying on Friday. Wind was too cross. A handful of pilots free flew after we cancelled the day at 3pm.

Tomorrow is fun flying with spot landing for the spectators, paramotor display and presentation dinner.

Wesley Hill scored this competition remotely from Australia. We just provided him with the downloads via Dropbox.

Worked really well. The whole competition was a huge team effort.

Looks like Grant was the winner.

Forbes Flatlands, Task 1, day 1 »

Sat, Dec 28 2013, 7:00:44 am EST

Forbes Flatlands, Task 1, day 1

A race task with lots in goal

Conrad Loten|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Forbes Flatlands|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Moyes Litespeed RX|Paris Williams|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|weather|Wesley "Wes" Hill|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C

I’ve shaken up the task committee to bring in new pilots and new thinking. Steve Blenkisop, Trent Brown, and Bruce Wynn formed the task committee on the first day. I’ll rotate in other pilots as the week goes on. They called a great task today, a zig zag in a strong cross wind, first south southeast to Grenfell, then north northeast to Gooloogong, then east northeast to Canowindra, then south east to a field near Woodstock. It was named the Child of God task. About 150 kilometers.

The pilots were launched in random order with a small open launch for those who found themselves at the back and were willing to go first. I was off sixth in my line and barely got there in time after handling the unofficial team director duties, weather forecasting, and task committee wrangling. I pinned off early as the tug just kept climbing.

It was my first time on a Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 in thermal conditions and it was just fine. I climbed right up and waited for the first start window with at first a dozen other pilots. The wind was 10+ mph out of the west northwest. The wind was breaking up the thermals.

We tried heading up wind to get a better start position, but that didn’t work as we didn’t find good lift. Most of the pilots drifted downwind and climbed to 7,000’. I decided to head up wind again and did get to work some lift with only a few pilots as the tugs pulled up the rest of them from Bill’s field below. Those pilots who drifted downwind took the first start clock.

I wasn’t in a great spot for the 2 PM start window so worked to get higher and further south for the 2:20 start and hooked up with Filippo and Jonny as well as a dozen other pilots. I was able to get much higher than the others and took the second clock at 8,600’, 1000’ over Filippo and 500’ over Jonny.

Filippo was charging ahead on his Wills Wing T2C with the extra winglets. He had a great glide and he, Jonny and I came into the first thermal twelve kilometers outside the start cylinder at about the same altitude. The thermal was not that strong, 300+ fpm and that would be the story as we worked our way south southeast. Out on the flats the thermals were broken, we didn’t get to 8,000’ often less than 6,000’, and the thermals varied between 200 and 300 fpm on average. Filippo continued to out race us all.

The wind was blowing us sideways and it took an hour and twenty minutes to go the fifty three kilometers to the Grenfell turnpoint. There is a nice little mountain range (not very high) before the Grenfell turnpoint and unlike the flats it was pumping. I lost Jonny just before the range but found good lift, especially on the southern end just before the turnpoint, averaging 700 fpm to 8,700'.

The conditions had scattered our gaggle and I was mostly on my own now with a few pilots lower than me. The hills past the turnpoint also were pumping and I worked 600 fpm to 9,500' before heading out into the flats. I didn't work any lift until I got to the small hills south of Gooloogong that faced into the west wind (and the sun) and climbed back to 8,600'. The race had picked up significantly with the wind now a tail wind at about 10 mph.

The next turnpoint at Canowindra was almost downwind and I found 355 fpm at a little west facing ridge five kilometers before it. I could see a few pilots down below me and then suddenly there was Filippo also below. Seems he got low and had to slow down. Attila, who thought that the task was wimpy, also got low and was lucky to make it into goal.

I took the thermal to almost 8,000' before the turnpoint and after the turnpoint headed southeast for the last 25 kilometer leg. Now the lift got weak and I was down to 3,500', 2000' AGL. We had thought that this last leg would be a cross wind leg, but in fact it was down wind as the wind still had a north component. I worked 100 fpm and then after getting up a little moved to 260 fpm, which was enough to get me to 5,300' and into goal.

Paris was first in on the first clock with Mike Bilyk and Steven Blenkisop. Jonny came in twelve minutes later. The goal quickly filled up. It was a real race to goal day. Not an endurance day. Still I was in the air for four and a half hours.

Task 1:

# Name SS ES Time Total
1 Jonny Durand 14:20:00 17:12:14 02:52:14 962
2 Paris Williams 14:00:00 17:03:47 03:03:47 896
3 Steve Blenkinsop 14:00:00 17:03:58 03:03:58 894
3 Michael Bilyk 14:00:00 17:03:58 03:03:58 894
5 Filippo Oppici 14:20:00 17:19:10 02:59:10 862
6 Adam Stevens 14:00:00 17:07:25 03:07:25 858
7 Jeff Robertson 14:00:00 17:08:55 03:08:55 843
8 Christian Voiblet 14:20:00 17:21:36 03:01:36 838
9 Davis Straub 14:20:00 17:21:55 03:01:55 835
10 Conrad Loten 14:00:00 17:10:28 03:10:28 828

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results-show.html?id_results=3&db=results2014&class=results_open

There is a sport class competition also and you'll find the results here.

Thanks to Wesley Hill, the scorekeeper and the pilots for getting their flight in so fast.

2013 Flatter than the Flatlands »

April 3, 2013, 9:05:47 EDT

2013 Flatter than the Flatlands

Birchip competition report

Flatter than the Flatlands 2013|Tove Heaney|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

Results here.

Over the last 21 years, Birchip has given us some great flying, even though it is approaching the end of our flying season. We've had 73 tasks out of the 86 days of competition. This year was 4 out of 4 with plenty of gliders at goal every day.

Day 1: 72.8km to Nyah West.

There were clouds (4500-5000ft base) over the paddock giving good climbs, but they dried out about 20km into the task. Still some good 600fpm climbs in the blue - and some not-so-good climbs from low saves.

14 in goal with Grant taking 1st, Tove in 2nd and Andy in 3rd.

Day 2: 50.6km to OakVale.

100% cloud cover, both upper level and low level - we weren't worried. Base was about 4500-5000ft again and there were still good climbs (500fpm) even without the sun. A few pilots found it hard to get up and get going, but it started working again late for those that kept trying.

Grant wins again, with Hughbert less than a minute behind and Tove in 3rd. 14 in goal again today.

Day 3: 60.8km to Lake Boga.

The RASP shows lift decreasing during the day so we head out early. Lots of nice looking clouds but base is lower (3500ft, rises to 4500ft late in the day). A lot of low saves, but also some fast times for those that were able to connect the dots. Beavo had trouble getting out of the tow paddock initially - but 5 tows saw him going late and taking advantage of the higher base.

Grant wins another day, Beavo is very close in 2nd (flying a floater) and Nick takes 3rd. 10 in goal.

Day 4: 46.2km to Llalbert Road.

A short task and an early start so everyone could get home at a reasonable hour. A lot of cloud while we're setting up, but plenty of sun on the ground by the time we launch. Base at 4500-5000ft and many pilots got 5-10km runs under the streets. 5 floater and race class gliders at goal with a few Pbs and first time goalers.

Grant wins yet again, Tove in 2nd and Hughbert in 3rd. 20 in goal.

No surprise that Grant won overall, Toby came second (first time at the comp), Nick and Andy were equal third.

Scoring the Worlds

February 26, 2013, 8:45:28 EST

Scoring the Worlds

Does it matter what scoring system we use there?

Alessandro "Alex" Ploner|Attila Bertok|Christian Ciech|Filippo Oppici|Gary Wirdnam|Gordon Rigg|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Jon Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|Paris Williams|Primoz Gricar|Robin Hamilton|Rob Kells|Scott Barrett|Wesley "Wes" Hill

I can choose among a wide variety of scoring formulas in FS to score a given competition. At the Worlds in 2013 Wesley Hill used the GAP 2002 version of GAP 2011 which provides for 'leading' points and arrival position points and well as speed and distance points. Presumably the pilots were fooled into thinking that leading actually gave them valuable points seeing that GAP 2002 was being used as the scoring system. This is in contrast to the previous case (2012 Rob Kells) where I chose a competition that was originally scored using arrival time points.

Here are the results:

GAP 2002 OzGAP 2005 GAP 2000
1 Manfred Ruhmer 9010 Manfred Ruhmer 8939 Manfred Ruhmer 8911
2 Alessandro Ploner 8871 Alessandro Ploner 8840 Alessandro Ploner 8792
3 Filippo Oppici 8560 Filippo Oppici 8611 Filippo Oppici 8508
4 Attila Bertok 8531 Attila Bertok 8545 Attila Bertok 8479
5 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8249 Grant Crossingham 8374 Grant Crossingham 8213
6 Grant Crossingham 8242 Primoz Gricar 8240 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8191
7 Primoz Gricar 8171 Pedro Luis Garcia Morelli 8234 Primoz Gricar 8151
8 Balazs Ujhelyi 8131 Balazs Ujhelyi 8195 Scott Barrett 8076
8 Scott Barrett 8131 Scott Barrett 8152 Antoine Boisselier 8063
10 Antoine Boisselier 8128 Antoine Boisselier 8140 Balazs Ujhelyi 8050
11 Jonny Durand 8069 Robin Hamilton 8044 Jonny Durand 7960
12 Robin Hamilton 8031 Jonny Durand 8018 Robin Hamilton 7916
13 Gerd Dönhuber 7888 Michael Friesenbichler 7884 Gerd Dönhuber 7801
14 Michael Friesenbichler 7878 Paris Williams 7883 Michael Friesenbichler 7762
15 Gordon Rigg 7854 Gerd Dönhuber 7820 Paris Williams 7745
16 Paris Williams 7842 Gordon Rigg 7778 Gordon Rigg 7714
17 Gary Wirdnam 7734 Gary Wirdnam 7718 Gary Wirdnam 7658
18 Christian Ciech 7641 Mario Alonzi 7683 Christian Ciech 7533
19 Carl Wallbank 7631 Christian Ciech 7614 Carl Wallbank 7516
20 Mario Alonzi 7584 Carl Wallbank 7611 Mario Alonzi 7516

The first four positions are the same and then we get into some swapping.

The full results are found here, here and here.

Birchip Flatter than the Flatlands 2013

February 19, 2013, 7:41:39 MST

Birchip Flatter than the Flatlands 2013

Date: 29 March to 01 April 2013 (Easter)

Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

Birchip, Victoria.

Hang glider pilots are invited to the 21st Flatter than the Flatlands cross country towing competition. The event will be conducted over the four day Easter long weekend. Entry fee is $80 and includes map, daily prizes, presentation BBQ, scoring, goal beers and lots of fun. GPS and parachute required. Discount available for teams with a first time pilot.

Contact: Wesley Hill
mobile 0408305943
email <wes.hill>

wesbsite: www.sacra.biz/fttf

Scoring the Worlds

January 9, 2013, 7:23:46 AEDT

Scoring the Worlds

Be careful with what you see.

Christian Ciech|record|Scott Barrett|Wesley "Wes" Hill

When Wesley Hill was scoring the Worlds last night he was confronted with Scott Barrett's track log that looked exactly like this although at that time he also was displaying Christian Ciech's track log in addition to Scott's:


First, he had been told by Scott that he beat Christian into the goal (which has been confirmed). Second, he has downloaded Scott's Garmin GPS because Scott's vario went out on him half way through the flight (pretty amazing that Scott won the day flying without a vario).

Third, it was extremely difficult to believe that at 17:59:03 Scott turned directly 90 degrees at very high speed to his course line and thirty second later was heading away from the goal. That did not "look" right.

Fourth, a track log that had been recording at one or two second intervals was now displaying to adjacent track log points at thirty seconds apart.

We assumed that there were issues with the Garmin correctly recording Scott's position likely due to his body covering the Garmin up as he pulled in hard and raced to goal.  But is seemed very unlikely that he was going 600 to 1800 kmh as GPS Dump was calculating.

The FS program scored Scott based in its calculation of when he crossed the circumference of the 400 meter goal cylinder, but we doubted the validity of the calculation given the odd looking track log data displayed by FS.

Wesley was clear that track log data points that he could see in the track log file in GPSDump were not being displayed by FS. He attempted to delete some points to get FS to recalculate the goal cylinder entry time. That helped but it was still not the best solution and it looked like he would have to calculate the goal cylinder crossing time manually.

I asked him to create an IGC file from Scott's KML track log file and display it in SeeYou. Here's what we got:

Obviously Scott's Garmin GPS lost track of where he was for an interval.

Zooming in a bit closer at the goal:

The Garmin GPS was recording position fine until, at 17:58:10 at 2.55 km from the edge of the start cylinder with Scott flying at 70 mph, the recorded track log started jiggling. Estimated speeds at that point turned to about 250 mph as his actual location was no longer being properly recorded.

We saw right away that FS was not correctly displaying the track log data and no longer believed the calculation for his goal cylinder crossing time.

I left at that point with Wesley ready to deal with the data and come up with the best estimate possible from the actual data, given that the data was bad but the best that we had.

The first data point from the track log inside the goal cylinder was 17:59:38. That is what Wesley has used as Scott's goal cylinder circumference crossing time, although obviously he would have crossed before that and Christian has stated that Scott made goal before him.

Today I took Scott's original KML track log file and the IGC file made from it and decided to try to figure out why FS had apparently lead us astray. It turned out to be a very simple answer.

Check out the last item in this FS dialog box:

Indeed FS had "filtered" out track log points that didn't "look" right. It appeared to Wesley and I to also make an interpolation of Scott's goal cylinder crossing time that was incorrect from these filtered track log points.

Once I unchecked this last check box and reopened the FS display of the track log, I got the same picture as SeeYou displayed of Scott tracklog.

I then went one step further. I decided to see if I could use the last apparently good track log data point, Scott's airspeed at the point, and the distance to goal, and assuming that he kept that air speed and knowing from Christian that Scott had indeed beat him to goal come up with a "better" calculation of his goal cylinder crossing time.

Assuming that he is flying at 112.7 km/h (70 mph) and he has to go 2.55 km, he is able to do that in 1 minute and 21.46 seconds so that his goal cylinder crossing time would be 17:59:31 (6 seconds less than Wesley's use of the value shown on Scott's track log). If he in fact (and most likely) flew even faster (as he beat Christian's time of 17:59:26) at 80 mph he would have had a 17:59:21 crossing time.

The points difference between Scott and Christian (4th and 1st place) was 21 points out of 968. Wesley chose the most conservative value for Scott's goal cylinder crossing time (a data point inside the goal cylinder). Using an interpolation from the data (bad as it is) would have put the crossing time at 17:59:36 (approximately). This calculation seems to be to be valid, while mine is speculative (although witness based).

I would argue that Scott deserves few more points with a "better" calculation.

I then went yet another step further. I looked at the section of the track log that was displaced to the south. This is it:

An analysis of this section shows that Scott was traveling at 75 to 77 mph directly toward the goal for .9 km (ignoring the displacement) with the bottom track log point at 17:59:33. It apparently took five seconds for the Garmin GPS to properly record the correct location.

Software is not perfect and human beings are still required to evaluate the results of the calculations as well as the recordings of the instruments.

2012 Flatter than the Flatlands »

February 8, 2012, 9:18:38 PST

2012 Flatter than the Flatlands

6 to 09 April 2012 (Easter)

Flatter than the Flatlands 2012|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

Birchip, Victoria.

Hang glider pilots are invited to the 20th Flatter than the Flatlands cross country towing competition. The event will be conducted over the four day Easter long weekend. Entry fee is $80 and includes daily prizes, presentation BBQ, scoring, goal beers and lots of fun. GPS and parachute required. Discount available for teams with a first time pilot.

Contact: Wesley Hill mobile 0408305943 email <wes.hill> website: http://www.sacra.biz/fttf

No Bogong Cup

Wed, Oct 19 2011, 6:06:30 pm GMT

Not enough pilots signed up

Wesley "Wes" Hill

http://www.sacra.biz/bogong/

Wesley Hill «Wesley Hill» writes:

The Bogong Cup is cancelled.

There are currently twelve entries for the 2012 Bogong Cup. As stated on the website, if there were fewer than twenty entries by 15th October then the competition would be cancelled.

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2012 Bogong Cup?

Mon, Oct 10 2011, 8:47:41 am MDT

Twenty entrants needed by October 15th

Bogong Cup 2012|Wesley "Wes" Hill

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Wesley Hill «Wesley Hill» writes:

The HGFA comp committee has given the Bogong Cup the A sanction level.

OzGAP 2005 and Assigned Area Tasks

September 27, 2011, 6:06:01 pm MDT

OzGAP 2005 and Assigned Area Tasks

Wesley has added AAT to my GAP scoring script for SeeYou

Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill, the organizer of the Bogong Cup, has been very clever and has added the ability for my OzGAP 2005 scoring script which is used in Australia and the US for scoring hang gliding competitions to also score assigned area task type tasks using GAP parameters. I sent Wesley an ATT scoring script a few weeks ago and he has incorporated the key features into OzGAP 2005 so now he can score the Bogong Cup in SeeYou.

You can find the script here: http://ozreport.com/docs/GAPAAT.txt. You just replace the existing script with this one.

See here: http://ozreport.com/Davis_Scoring_Manual.php.

Assigned Area Tasks are very similar to existing tasks for hang gliding competitions, with a few interesting, but minor variations. The tasks use waypoints just the same as we do now, but the radius of cylinders around these waypoints can be quite large and you can go in the cylinder as far as you like as your total distance to counted, not the minimum distance of the task. You are scored on the basis of your speed to complete the particular task that you choose (within the confines of the waypoint cylinders) just as you would be for a "regular" task.

A task is assigned a minimum time. If you complete the task in less than that time your speed is figured on the basis of the minimum time, say two hours. This means that you should choose a task that actually takes you at least the minimum time or the math works out penalizing you. So you need to figure out in advance about how far into the cylinders that you need to fly in order to have a task lasting at least as long as the minimum time.

If you don't make goal you are scored on your speed with a discount.

The information about the Bogong Cup is here: http://www.sacra.biz/bogong/.

Going to the 2012 Pre-Worlds?

August 31, 2011, 9:43:24 MDT

Going to the 2012 Pre-Worlds?

How about attending the 2012 Bogong Cup while you're at it?

Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wes Hill is running the 2012 Bogong Cup and would like to know if you are interested (or not) in attending. Please take one minute (or less) to fill out his three question survey here: http://www.sacra.biz/bogong/bc2012survey.php

You can find out more about the Bogong Cup here: http://www.sacra.biz/bogong/.

The web site for the pre-Worlds: http://forbesflatlands.com.

Birchip

April 27, 2011, 8:36:07 EDT

Birchip

Flatter than the Flatlands, Birchip, Victoria, Australia

Grant Heaney|Peter Lissenburg|Stephen Whalley|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

Day 1 - Easter Friday: The RASP models showed thermal strength less than 200fpm, there was rain 80kms to the south. So we went out to the tow paddock and set up. With very low expectations, we set a task 69kms to Tresco. Much to everyone's surprise two pilots made goal and a few others got out of the paddock. Many towed repeatedly but didn't get away. Grant was fastest with a time of 1:07 with Paul second and Andy third (in a Malibu).

Day 2 - Easter Saturday: We expected thermals today and got them, along with a few cu's. Cloudbase was about 5000ft and smooth thermals made it a very pleasant day. Grant won again completing the 69km task to Mystic Park in 1:22, followed by Paul and Wesley. Eleven pilots made goal including five floater/race gliders. One pilot had his very first cross country flight and got to goal.

Day 3 - Easter Sunday: Better thermals, but no clouds. With a light wind and no clouds we set a shorter task of 63kms. Climbs of 500 - 700fpm to 4500ft. Grant won yet again, with a time of 1:18. Wesley was 2nd and Tim 3rd.

Day 4 - Easter Tuesday: A hard day. A light ESE wind, no clouds and an inversion around 3500ft with occasional good climbs to over 4000ft. Paul completed the 59km task in 1:25 to win the day, closely followed by Grant and Hughbert. Seven in goal with Paddy just short after getting lost.

Day 5 - Anzac Day public holiday: The inversion lifted a bit to 4500ft, but a lot of the thermals were weak with a few stunners punching into the inversion to over 5500ft. Wind was about 10kts from the east, and a shorter task of 51kms to Beulah was set as most pilots had to drive 4-5 hours and work the next day. Tony won the day in 0:52, with Paul and Grant close behind. Andy and Beavo in their floaters were among the eleven pilots to make goal.

It was a great weekend to finish of the season for most of us. Grant was 1st overall in a Litespeed S3.5, making goal every day and winning the first three days. Paul finished second also making goal every day. Wesley was third making goal four days, with Hughbert and Tony in 4th and 5th after getting to goal on three days. Andy won the Race class flying a Malibu 188 (the experienced pilots flying floaters had entered Race) and Neale won the Floater class in a Fun 190.

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# Name Glider Total
1 Grant Heaney Litespeed S3.5 4073
2 Paul Kelley C4 14 3841
3 Wesley Hill Litespeed 4 3416
4 Hughbert Alexander Aeros Combat L 2953
5 Tony Cross Rev 13.5 2928
6 Peter Lissenburg Combat II 2395
7 Andy Phillips Malibu 188 2093
8 Alan Beavis Ventura 190 2082
9 Stephen Whalley Litespeed S 4 2051
10 Tim Hannah Airborne C4 14 1994

2011 Bogong Cup, Day 1, Task 1 »

January 16, 2011, 10:03:01 pm AEDT

2011 Bogong Cup, Day 1, Task 1

A rough day in the air at Mystic Hill

Bogong Cup 2011|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|PG|Scott Barrett|Wesley "Wes" Hill

We started the first day of the 2011 Bogong Cup with a 10 AM pilot meeting at Treats, a gourmet restaurant near Settler's Tavern. Wesley Hill, the meet organizer and scorekeeper, brought tee-shirts for us all to start off the meet. The meet is free and we only have to pay $20 for membership to fly Mystic Hill.

We set up an AAT task (assigned area task) with ten kilometer radii around a turnpoint at the Ovens intersection next to Myrtleford hill, over to a ten kilometer turnpoint at Gundowring and then to the Mt. Beauty airport. AAT tasks are won by the pilots with the fastest average speed. There is a minimum time that you have to fly, in our case two hours. You can fly as far into the turnpoint cylinders as you want as you judge how long it will take you to complete the task. It's pretty easy to understand.

We got to launch at Mystic Hill with a XCSkies forecast of seven knots north northwest winds at launch up to eleven knots at 8,000' (top of the lift on a blue day) west southwest. The climb rates looked good.

There were a good number of paraglider pilots around, a few in the air, and many launching. Olli Barthelmes, launched first, then Carey from Finland, and even though they are below launch, I launched into the nice winds coming straight up the launch.

I went over to the left to Olli and Carey and the lift was broken and weak. Olli then dove to the right ridge and Carey and I followed. Olli didn't get up and landed. Carey followed and then a few minutes later I landed with them. Soon Scott Barrett launched and then landed with us as did all the pilots in the Bogong Cup. And plenty of paraglider pilots also.

We all went back up again at 2 PM to give it another try. Carey was up the hill first and off first. He stayed just above launch. Olli and Scott launched and got up. I launched and didn't get up. Carey and Andrew landed and that ended the day for us. Scott and Olli fought the winds which were much higher than forecasted.

Scott got over to Clear Spot and worked up the spines. Olli turned downwind and jumped over to the ridge line to the right to get to Mt. Porepunkah. Scott got high at the Clear Spot and jumped over to the ridges to Mt. Porepunkah and worked them to get over the mountain. On the radio we heard him go to Mt. Porepunkah three times as the winds and blew him back away from the Ovens turnpoint.

Scott got up and watched Olli behind him. Scott was able to make the turnpoints and land twenty one kilometers from goal. He didn't know where Olli ended up.

Don't know how the scoring will go. It is by position only. This is our first attempt at this type of task. It should be interesting.

Forbes Floodlands Hang Gliding Championship, Day 4, Task 2

Flytec 6030|Forbes Flatlands Championships 2011|GAP 2002|Gerolf Heinrichs|HOLC|Jamie Shelden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Lukas Bader|OzGAP 2005|Ricker Goldsborough|weather|Wesley "Wes" Hill|XContest

Wed, Jan 5 2011, 9:53:43 pm AEDT

Forbes Floodlands

A super day next to the cu-nimb

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On the first completed task, Lukas Bader had borrowed some flight computer and didn't realize that it was set to miles instead of kilometers. He therefore waited for the third start outside the start cylinder. In fact he was outside the start cylinder twelve minutes before the first start time. Under some rules (not those used here, but ones advocated by Attila) he would have scored a zero (as in a Category 1 competition). But we are more forgiving and just added twenty four minutes to his start time and finish time and then scored him based on those times. This works with OzGAP 2005, but not with GAP 2002.

I looked at the CAPE forecast, https://OzReport.com/ozweather.php, http://blipmap.walsys.net/NEWSOUTHWALES/blipmap.htm, and basically it showed that there would be thunderstorms to the north of Narromine, quite a ways from us, but that we shouldn't have too many concerns in the local area. No need to go to the north though, even with the reasonably strong southwest winds, if we wanted to stay out of harms way.

The forecast also showed good lift and cu's to the east (just east of Forbes) with cloud base at 9,000'. The surface temperature was predicted to be mild at 32° Celsius. It would have to get to 42 to cause thunderstorms locally.
The task committee didn't want to send us downwind to the danger area so they came up with a local task.

I hate going to Grenfell to the south because of some bad experiences going down near the turnpoint. I suggested a 5 km radius turnpoint which would allow us to stay on the hill sides before Grenfell and that suggestion was gratefully accepted by the task committee members who had similar feelings. We also wanted a 5 km turnpoint at Eugowra to keep us near the hills to the east. A 142 km task.

The sport class task was the same minus Grenfell.

Despite my misgivings when I was handed the task committee member names (Gerolf, Attila, Jonny) and they've done well. I'm am very pleased with their work and their process. They take care of everything and I have only minor input. They all get along well, which I wasn't sure would be the case.

The last two legs would be down wind, which I like. The winds were forecasted to not be that strong, so it shouldn't have been much of an issue.

With CASA here to inspect us, we had one tug down as unregistered, so I lined up early to make sure that I got into the air in time. I was the first one to get pulled up.

There were lots of high level clouds causing shading, and there was a cu-nimb to the north east. It looked good to the south and southeast, but not so good to the east and north east. The thunderstorm was a lot closer than the forecast called for.

With all the shading from the upper level clouds the lift was weak in the 10 km start cylinder. Despite that, in the over the hour and twenty minutes I spent before the first start window, I managed to work myself up to 7,400' just before the first clock at 1:30 PM. I wasn't at cloud base and there were pilots above me, and we still had two and a half kilometers to glide to get to the edge of the start cylinder, but it looked good enough to me for a start.

Ricker and I took off with a few other pilots that I could see, but apparently a lot of pilots took the first start time. Larry got stuck in the launch line and he wasn't able to get to us in time and had to take the third start time (there were four, as we are down the one tug).

It was only 5 km to the first thermal averaging 350 fpm. Not strong, but not weak either. There was a cu above it to mark its location. There were plenty of cu's ahead.

The lift improves as I get further south and climb back to 7,400' at 400+ fpm. Just before the hills north of Grenfell, I fly through 900 fpm down to find a core under a cu that really turns on as I tighten it up. It gets to over 1000 fpm on the twenty second averager and a Wedge Tail Eagle joins me. I figure that we are so high that I am no threat to his territory and he doesn't attack me, just shares the screaming lift. We climb to over 9,000'. It is cold up there for my fingerless bicycle gloves and two long sleeve undershirts.

It's a quick glide around the turnpoint at Grenfell (thank goodness the task committee moved it out to the foothills) then back to the eastern rocky ridgeline that heads toward Eugowra. I find 400 fpm over the rocks that gets me back to almost 8,000' then head down the ridgeline looking for the next strong lift.

I have to go to the end of the ridgeline and out front a bit to the west to get under the good looking clouds. The wind is 5 mph out of the southwest and the faces of the hills are facing west into the sun, so it looks like a good spot. I find 500+ fpm to 9,400'. I'm beginning to shiver a bit.

I've seen Dave Shields, an English pilot, a few times in the air during this task, and I see him again (he's flying Jonny's Red Bull glider), along with a few others, as I head north-northeast toward Eugowra under a nice cloud street that I had lined up while on the ridgeline. With the cu's lined up and a few pilots around to help out I don't get below 6,600' as I make the turnpoint and head for the tree covered hills between Eugowra and Cudal.

I'd seen Dave take off low as three of us got to over 9,500' just before the turnpoint, and had to fight to stay out of the cloud, but there he was again high just past Eugowra, just below me.

Over the hills Dave and I found a strong thermal (500 fpm) 31.5 km from the goal. We climbed to 9,300' before we went on our final glide. Dave really pulled in and went ahead. I was going over the ground at 55 to 70 mph with a 9 mph tail wind, which I thought was fast enough.

I was getting L/D ratios of over 18 and the 6030 was telling me that I was 3000' over best glide. But I was 20 miles out and I was flying very fast, so it was hard to be sure that that was true. I could see Dave now way ahead of me but way low.

And ahead it was black from the cu-nimb to the north. The goal was still in the sunshine, but right north of it what the shade for miles to the east, west and north. Wesley later told me that the task was almost stopped because they could see the thunderstorm on the radar between Eugowra and Cudal. Now it was to the north and dying, but I wasn't sure that that was happening.

Almost half way there we left the hills and suddenly my L/D went down to 8. The tail wind had turned into a head wind from the cu-nimb to the north which was now shading the goal. I put the bar back to a more relaxed position and started flying at best glide. I did the last 10 km in that position, coming over the imaginary goal line (it didn't show up) at 200'. Turning and landing in thick wet alfalfa.

Dave Shields raced himself into the ground short of goal. I noticed that he stopped about 10 km from goal and started looking for lift. I passed him a little higher, but not much higher to his right.

The flight on the HOLCor on the XContest.

There were a few pilots at goal but many more followed and maybe forty pilots arrived there. I haven't got the URL for the results yet.

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More airspace for the Bogong Cup

December 2, 2010, 8:41:18 PST

More airspace for the Bogong Cup

Above the Pines launch area

Wesley "Wes" Hill

Bogong Cup here: http://www.sacra.biz/bogong/

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

Last comp we had a Temporary Danger Area we activated to get an extra 1000 feet above the Pines by splitting the CTA step into 2 parts. This has now become a permanent change. It doesn't change the airspace in the Kiewa valley, just the area from Myrtleford out towards Wangaratta.

To register for the competition email Wesley.

Live (5 minute delay) Tracking in Australia

Tue, Nov 30 2010, 8:31:43 am PST

Wesley has written an App

live tracking|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «Wesley Hill» writes:

Live tracking using a mobile phone app that I wrote. Of course you need a phone with a GPS and web access, which is limited to Telstra in out in the country Australia. Feel free to play with it: www.sacra.biz/bogong/bclive.html. The system is designed for use in Oz and has a five minute delay for showing tracklogs (you don't want someone to know exactly where you are).

Open either the "jar" or "jad" file and it will install.

Bogong Cup here: http://www.sacra.biz/bogong/

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2011 Bogong Cup »

July 21, 2010, 6:41:08 pm GMT+0200

2010 Bogong Cup

Wes Hill will organize it

Bogong Cup 2011|Wesley "Wes" Hill

The Bogong Cup is scheduled for January 16th through the 22nd.

http://www.sacra.biz/bogong

Two "new" and different formats for the tasks and scoring. What is not clear is which competition you should sign up for. Twenty pilots maximum for each competition. Both held at the same time.

Flatter - last day

Tue, Apr 6 2010, 11:29:04 am EDT

2010 Birchip Flatter than the Flatlands Hang Gliding Competition

Flatter than the Flatlands 2010|Grant Heaney|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «Wesley Hill» writes:

Day 4

It's the last day so a short task of 39 kms was set. It was quick with excellent climbs to over 6,000 ft. Sam Prest completed the task in only 42 minutes, followed by Grant Heaney and Ian Rees. Andy Schmidt was the fastest of the 4 floaters at goal.

Final results had Paul Kelley in first with Hughbert Alexander second and Adam Stevens third. Race class was won by Andy Schmidt (flying a floater) and Floater class was won by Andy Phillips.

Results at http://www.hgfa.asn.au/~fttf

Flatter

April 5, 2010, 8:43:34 EDT

Flatter

2010 Birchip Flatter than the Flatlands Hang Gliding Competition

Grant Heaney|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

Day 1

A light southerly - goal 55 kms downwind. Good climbs to 5,500 ft and even some clouds early in the task. 13 pilots made goal including 2 floaters (Experienced swimmer Curtis Greenwood was the fastest floater). Young gun Sam Prest won with a time of 55 minutes followed by last years winner Grant Heaney and meet-head Hughbert Alexander. Electronics guru Peter Lissenberg had trouble reading his GPS and went the wrong side of the lake.

Day 2

The wind was still from the south but lighter, the thermals were less reliable, the task was longer, there were no clouds and we didn't get as high. Goal was set at Nandaly, 61 kms cross/downwind. 9 at goal with Steve Whalley winning in 1:20. Grant was second again and Paul Kelley was 3rd. Andy Phillips was the best of the floaters landing 1.2 km short of goal.

Day 3

A light NE wind which went north after we set up combined with cirrus and alto-cum shading the ground made it look grim for a while. Task was set 53 km towards Warracknabeal. It turned on at some point and pilots got good climbs to over 5,000 ft. Paul Kelley won the day in 1:16 with Hughbert Alexander coming second and Adam Stevens third. Noel Bear was the only floater in goal.

Day 4

It's 8:00 am here and there's not much wind but plenty of sun...

Results at http://www.hgfa.asn.au/~fttf

On to Mount Beauty

January 13, 2010, 5:04:23 pm AEDT

On to Mount Beauty

And the 2010 Bogong Cup

Blue Sky|Wesley "Wes" Hill

The deep blue sky with a super high cloud base looked great last evening in Forbes. As we headed out in the morning for Mt. Beauty the high thin clouds from the approaching front turned the sky milky gray. The further south we traveled, the darker the sky became, until 80 kilometers from Mt. Beauty the rain started. We were expecting the rain and really appreciating it with the hope that it would kill the chances for damaging fires in Victoria. It apparently had rained steadily from 9 AM to just after we arrived at 3 PM. It is raining again now at 4:30 PM.

The forecast for here is found here and here. The latest satellite (we're in the thin band of clouds to the southeast):

The competition starts on Saturday and results should be up here.

I am again the Executive Director, the person who takes on most of the meet director functions, other than safety functions in the air. Wes Hill will again be scoring and taking on the Meet Director functions when I'm in the air. Wes, Vicki, and I worked together at Forbes to making leadership decisions.

HGFA BOD

September 18, 2009, 8:15:06 MDT

HGFA BOD

Equal justice

Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <<wesleyianhill>> writes:

I recently received a message from the HGFA Office in an eNewsletter. It seems that the response of some candidates for HGFA Board has been provided in an official document, but the responses from the other candidates have been excluded. It seems unfair that those currently controlling the HGFA can use its resources to promote themselves in this manner.

Flatter

April 14, 2009, 10:39:48 EDT

Flatter

Birchip

Grant Heaney|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

Birchip really turned it on this Easter with four superb days of flying. But it wasn't quite perfect...

Day 1 - A 70 km task with a light WSW saw pilots heading to Woolinen. It was a bit crosswind, but the wind was light enough that it didn't matter. 8 pilots made goal with Grant Heaney a lot faster than the rest completing the speed section (64 km) in 1:38. The light wind made it hard to launch with a few pilots getting away late - too late to make goal.

Day 2 - Basically no wind, so we set a short task, just 40 km, so more people would be able to get away before it got too late. Wesley Hill was the fastest of the 10 pilots in goal with a time of 0:48. Again the light wind slowed down the launch rate in the tow paddock.

Day 3 - Similar conditions to Day 2, so we set the same goal. Pilots got higher (over 7,000 ft), the thermals were even better and the times even quicker. Grant won again with a time of 0:46 and 11 pilots made goal.

Day 4 - No wind again. A lot of pilots had to drive home and work the next day so we set another short task of 38 km. Pilots got really high today with some pilots almost able to glide from the start circle to goal. 19 happy people in goal. Hughbert Alexander won the day with a time of 0:32. Peter Davies didn't get the landing quite right and broke his arm.

Overall, Grant came first with Hughbert second and Adam Stevens 3rd.

Results are at: www.hgfa.asn.au/~fttf

World's Local Regs

January 22, 2009, 8:09:27 AEDT

World's Local Regs

How many pilots?

CIVL|record|Wesley "Wes" Hill|World Pilot Ranking Scheme

FAI Secretariat «info» writes:

The CIVL approved Local Regulations for the 17th FAI World Hang Gliding Championships 2009 in Laragne, France, have now been published on the FAI website at http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/LocalRegulations.

From the regs:

1. 1.1 Each NAC is invited initially to submit a team of up to four pilots (and this may comprise any combination of males and females) by 31 January 2009 A deposit of 100euros per pilot must be received by this date to reserve the places.

1. 1.2 If the total number of pilots registered, with deposits paid, at 31 January 2009 does NOT exceed 120, an extra allocation of 1 pilot per team shall be offered to nations, in descending order of the nation WPRS ranking (on 1 February 2009) to bring the total maximum number of pilots to 130. In this allocation process France, the host nation, will be treated as equal to the nation ranked highest in the WPRS.

1. 1.3 Pilots entered in the extra allocation process will not form part of the national team until all nations who entered a full team of 4 pilots initially have been offered a further place.

1. 1.4 Any places that subsequently become available will be offered according to this allocation process until the allocation deadline of 20 May 2009. A second round of allocation will only be offered if the first round results in fewer than 120 pilots entered.

1. 1.5 The maximum number of pilots entered by each nation shall not exceed 6 and the maximum team size shall not exceed 6.

10. 5 Early start (16.5.7.3) Where a track log shows that the pilot started before the first permitted start time he/she shall be given a time penalty equal to 10 times the amount of time between his/her actual start time and the first permitted start time; this time penalty shall be added to his/her total task time. The maximum amount of early start for this rule to be applied is 5 minutes; any pilot starting earlier than 5 minutes before the first permitted start time shall be scored to minimum distance only.

Doesn't say that the early starters time will be shifted back. I would suggest that the system apparently invented by Wesley Hill and used here at the Bogong Cup and at the 2009 Forbes meet would be more appropriate.

http://www.xcflight.com

6. 9 Start gates: Pilots can start flying the task at any time before the first start gate time but will be penalised. The amount of minutes started before the first gate time will be doubled and added onto your start and finish times. This is to limit the effect on arrival and departure bonuses.

E. g If first gate time is 13.00 with 15 min start intervals

Pilot A starts at 12.43 (so 17 min x 2 adds 34 mins to the time)

So Pilot A start time will be 13.17

Due to Start Intervals this will become 13.15

Pilot A’s tracklog will be shifted by 34 min’s.

GAP parameters: Minimum distance: 10km, Nominal distance: 60km, Nominal time: 2 hours, Percentage at goal – 30%

Yet again designed to have 1000 point days. Nominal distance should be 100 km.

10. 4 Scoring a stopped task. A task which has been stopped but not cancelled shall be scored if at least 2 (two) hours have elapsed since the first valid start is taken by a competing pilot or at least 1 pilot has achieved goal. The score back time is equal to the time between start gate windows or a minimum of 15 minutes in the case of a race task (5.5.8) and will be applied to all pilots whether in goal or not.

I thought that they were trying to get this cut down to at least one hour.

11 PENALTIES (5.8)

11. 1 Cloud flying by competitors is illegal and un-sportsmanlike. Competitors who fly into clouds will incur a penalty for the day. A pilot is deemed to have flown into a cloud if he/she is observed by a meet official or by a nearby air marshal going into and disappearing into a cloud, or: if 2 pilots from 2 different countries/teams witness the accused going up into the cloud and completely disappearing from their view, and attest to this fact in writing, and if barograph or 3D GPS traces from the accused show the accused significantly above nearby pilots at the time of the incident.

If the accused cannot produce a barograph trace for that day or a 3D GPS track log, only 2 witness statements are required. It is highly recommended for all competitors to fly with a recording barograph. Witnesses should press Mark/Enter when they witness a pilot going into a cloud. Any pilot found to be deliberately supplying false information about another pilot with respect to cloud flying will be removed from the competition.

It is recommended that a pilot sucked into cloud who did not have the intention of gaining an advantage should perform a figure 8 manoeuvre once out of the cloud and fly back along the course line until the extra height gained is lost before continuing on course so that other pilots can see it had not been intended.

S7 penalties apply for verified infractions. For the first infraction the pilot will score zero for the day and a further infraction will result in the pilot being excluded from the remainder of the competition (2.17.8 & 16.5.8).

As taken from our rules at the 2007 Worlds in Texas, but not the penalties which seem to be draconian and therefore not likely to be enforced. We called for 10%, 30% and then 0.

11. 2 Controlled Airspace: Pilots are expected to familiarise themselves with all controlled airspaces and any competition airspace limits in the vicinity of course lines from the maps and information supplied. The onus is on the pilot at all times to prove that he/she has not infringed on airspace.

The rules don't state what software or which airspace files will be used to determine airspace infringements. The onus should be on the scorekeeper to have valid software and valid airspace maps. And to download the airspace maps to the flight instruments.

Competition Altitude limits will be shown on the competition maps (does not apply to any Start Gate height limits which may be used).

Altitude will be checked using GPS altitude taken from the pilot’s track log and checked using the scoring software. GPS dump will only pass GPS altitude from the track to the scoring software. It ignores barometric altitude. It is the pilot’s responsibility to establish the difference between GPS altitude and the barometric altitude of the instruments he/she flies with.

Primary units will be meters. S7 penalties will apply for violations. These penalties will not apply to any start gate height limits set.

Aviation uses feet, the last time I checked, for altitude and all the sectionals will use feet for airspace. This section doesn't seem to conform with other sections in the local rules regarding who's GPSes will be check (all or top twenty?). Again no discussion about whether Brian, the scorekeeper, will be downloading airspace maps to our GPSes, and how he will deal with software discrepancies.

Also, GPS altitude is not defined here. Is it the altitude found in the KML trace that is reserved for GPS altitude when a GPS is downloaded by GPSDump, or is it the actual GPS altitude?

More on knowing if you are in airspace

January 21, 2009, 8:25:54 AEDT

More on knowing if you are in airspace

Julia watched and made sure that she never went into airspace.

Flytec 6030|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Wesley "Wes" Hill

This is the track log for Julia from the first day in the same area where I was when I went into airspace. Julia had her Flytec 6030 on the map screen the whole time and she made sure that she was out of airspace:

Notice that SeeYou shows her staying out of airspace just like her 6030 showed her so that she could stay out of airspace. But CompeGPS showed her in airspace. Fortunately it was for one minute exactly and therefore she didn't suffer a penalty.

Lukas also went into airspace that day, but for less than one minute (according to CompeGPS). SeeYou shows Lukas in for one turn, but CompeGPS would have shown him in for a little more. His Garmin Gecko also showed him going into airspace briefly.

Jonny was just to the right of Lukas, and his instrument (a Garmin GPS) also told him that he just went into airspace. SeeYou shows him just staying out of it. What causes these discrepancies is how the airspace definitions are implemented on Garmin GPSes and other non Flytec or non Brauniger devices, as little straight line segments between invisible waypoints.  These straight line segments are a little off the actual definition and therefore showed Lukas and Jonny both in airspace on their instruments.

CompeGPS had its own problems as it draws the circular segment around the airspace at 30.04 nautical miles instead of 30. This adds 74 meters to the radius of the airspace.

Scorekeepers are nearby put on notice about these technical issues and cautioned that they should be very careful when examining tracklogs to determine if a pilot is in airspace or not. Thanks to Wesley Hill for his help with these issues.

Using my scoring program in SeeYou

January 15, 2009, 7:21:44 AEDT

Using my scoring program in SeeYou

They used it at the Corryong Cup

sailplane|Simon Plint|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Simon Plint «simonplint» writes:

I found SeeYou to be a big improvement over CompeGPS. Mainly because of the time saving with not having to enter results into RACE.

Simon goes on to mention two issues which were not correctly documented in the program's older ReadMe file. One is the fact that SeeYou defaults to an error band of 500 meters around turnpoints (fine for sailplanes, but a bit larger than the 20 meters that we use). The second is that I have implemented handicapping (I don't think anyone is using it), but the old documentation doesn't reflect this. Simon was using an older version of the program.

You can download the updated ReadMe file here.

Wesley Hill used the FS scoring program at Forbes and at the Bogong Cup. I will use SeeYou at the NSW State Titles. Both programs give the same results (as I tested them by using both of them last year at the NSW State Titles) when using the OzGAP 2005 formulas.

2009 Forbes Flatlands »

November 11, 2008, 7:59:35 PST

2009 Forbes Flatlands

More fun for everyone

Bill Moyes|Davis Straub|Forbes Flatlands 2009|Lee Patterson|Vicki Cain|Wesley "Wes" Hill|World Pilot Ranking Scheme

Vicki Cain «moyes» writes:

The Forbes Flatlands has been the season's premium competition for 20 years and will attract the World's top competitors. What's different this year?

The top pilots all tow well. The thermals are guaranteed and the whole field is gone from the airport in one hour. This leaves the tug pilots with nothing to do and the spectators with nothing to see as the pilots are usually landing at a goal a couple of hundred kilometers away.

This year we want to encourage more pilots so we have added three more classes in addition to the Open Category.

The competition for single surface gliders will be called the Club class and will be a duration and spot landing competition.

The competition for intermediate gliders will be the Sport class. They will fly a shortened task to the Open Class with less turn points and a similar goal, and will launch after the Open Class. They will be scored by GPS track log so a GPS is mandatory.

The competition for A Class pilots will include pilots that have never been in the top 100 of the WPRS. A Class pilots will fly the Open Class task.

We will have trophies for 1st place in the Club, Sport and A Class categories and 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the Open Category.

We will have aerotow endorsement courses and aerotow training available every morning before the air is lively until the main competition pilots are ready. We will halt towing until the Open and A Class pilots are away, then we can continue towing until sunset.

Novice and Intermediate pilots can enter the competition or come along as an assistant and get their towing endorsement by flying early in the morning or late in the evening. The aim is to give the tugs more work to be able to reduce towing fees. To give the spectators more excitement to watch and to introduce novice and intermediate pilots to cross country events.

We have a World Class team heading operations with Bill Moyes in towing, Lee Patterson on launching, Davis Straub (Meet Director of the 2007 World’s in Texas) as ex-officio Meet head. Wes Hill is the score keeper and Rob Van Der Klooster is the Goalie.

Come join us, it’s a great opportunity to enhance your flying skills, meet new people from all around the globe, rub shoulders with the top guns or just kick back and enjoy the company of 100 like-minded people.

Forbes Flatlands Hang Gliding Championships 2009

Dates: Practice Day Friday 2nd January 2009

Competition Dates: Saturday 3rd January – Sunday 11th

9 Days allowing for 1 rest day

You can enter online at www.moyes.com.au/forbes2009 or contact Vicki Cain at «moyes».

There is great flying at Forbes and it is a wonderful opportunity to have the tugs out there with tug pilots. Pilots should come on out and enjoy the flying.

Checking for altitude violations

June 23, 2008, 6:41:03 pm +0200

Altitude

Just keep checking

CIVL|PG|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

Earlier this year I scored a paragliding where we checked pilots heights and applied a warning or penalty for breach's. This can be easily done with CompeGPS. Load your first tracklog, right click on it and select 'colour track by...' and 'GPS height'. Then right click on the GPS Altitude display area and 'Select range for this value'.

We used the height at which a warning was issued for the minimum value and the height at which a penalty was applied for the maximum value. After doing this, tracklogs that were OK would be blue, those which required a warning had some light blue/green/yellow and those that needed a penalty contained red. If you set both values the same you will get a tracklog that is green where the height is exceeded and yellow when it is not exceeded.

We also had the airspace loaded (an OpenAir text file that CompeGPS loads as a map) so we could see where pilots were when they got to high. All this was used to enforce the CIVL rules regarding airspace infringements.

SeeYou also lets you see airspace violations in this manner.

Flatter than the Flatlands

March 26, 2008, 6:07:07 PDT

Flatlands

Wesley Hill uses my SeeYou program to do the scoring

Corinna Schwiegershausen|Steve Blenkinsop|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

The results for the 2008 Flatter than the Flatlands comp, held at Birchip over Easter, are at http://www.hgfa.asn.au/~fttf

Steve Blenkinsop came first overall flying Corinna's Litespeed S3.5, followed by Alan Beavis and Paul Kelley.

Friday: Too windy.

Saturday: A 71 km fun task was set with an additional 22 km O and R for the 'guns'. Five pilots completed the gun task with Steve Blenkinsop fastest, and two completed the fun task with Don Rottman fastest. There was drama in the paddock when a monster dusty went through the launch line. Peter Davies got tossed into the air (not hooked in, just holding onto his glider) and landed hard breaking his collarbone.

Sunday: 55 and 73 km tasks were set. None of the guns made their goal with Steve Blenkinsop getting closest at 66 km. Alan Beavis was the only pilot to complete the fun task. Most of the pilots that did well also got wet in the air, and many pilots that did not get out of the paddock got drenched when a rain cell moved through.

Monday: The trough from Sunday was forecast to deepen, so with our expectations low we headed out. The rain stayed clear of the task area and we set a 41 km fun task and 57 km gun task.  Four pilots made the gun task with Steve Blenkinsop again having the fastest time. John Mitchell flew 33 km to come first in the fun category.

SeeYou/OzGAP 2005 script used for scoring Bogong Cup and Corryong Cup

January 19, 2008, 3:48:38 pm GMT+1100

SeeYou

My OzGAP 2005 scoring program was used for scoring the 2008 Airborne Classic, the 2008 Bogong Cup, and the 2008 Corryong Cup

CIVL|Wesley "Wes" Hill

The scoring program can be found here: http://www.naviter.si/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,238/topic,2742.22. Go to the bottom of the page and download the zipped file. Follow the simple instructions to install it (please!).

Wesley Hill finally got it setup right after I helped him to get the correctly formatted output (and Wesley is a clever fellow who helped me immensely with the program). The scorekeeper at the Corryong Cup didn't get it right. Doesn't affect the scores, but the output doesn't look right. I offered numerous times to help them set it up (takes five minutes and is fully documented), but they never took me up on that offer.

The scorekeepers can send out the XML formatted results to CIVL or HGFA. This is built into SeeYou.

I look forward to the program being used at the NSW State Titles and perhaps at the Dalby Big Air.

It has been downloaded 90 times. Are you using it for your scoring? If so, please write and tell me how it goes.

2007 Birchip, Flatter than the Flatlands »

April 10, 2007, 8:54:41 pm EDT

Birchip

Four days in a row of good flying.

Birchip 2007|Steve Blenkinsop|Tove Heaney|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

Results for the 2007 Birchip Flatter than the Flatlands are available at: http://www.hgfa.asn.au/~fttf

Birchip turned on one of its best years, with 4 excellent days of flying.

Day 1 - 79 kms to Mittyack. A blue day with a light SSE wind. Weak thermals below 2000 ft made low saves difficult, but there were occasional 400 to 500 fpm climbs to 4200 ft if you stayed high. 6 pilots made goal. 1st Wesley Hill 38.7 km/h 2nd Hughbert Alexander 37.5 km/h 3rd Steve Blenkinsop 34.2 km/h

Day 2 - 65 kms to Boolite. Another blue day with a very light ENE wind. The wind earlier in the day had been north so we set up to tow north. Half the field was didn't get away when the surface winds turned more east, making launches difficult. It was a good day for those that got away with 12 in goal, and climbs of 600 fpm to 6000 ft. 1st Gary Fimeri 34.0 km/h 2nd Tove Heaney 33.1 km/h 3rd Trevor Sangster 32.3 km/h

Day 3 - 104 kms to Tottington. Yet another blue day (there were a few cus while we were setting up) with a fresh NNE wind. The task committee picked the direction badly, but strong thermals made it possible for 9 pilots to make goal (a couple of pilots ended up 30 kms off track). We were getting over 6000 ft, with the better thermals averaging 800 fpm. 1st Gary Fimeri 43.4 km/h 2nd Tove Heaney 39.7 km/h 3rd Ian Rees 39.6 km/h

Day 4 - 74 kms to Rich Avon. Blue again, with a moderate NNE wind. Weaker lift down low made it hard to get out of the paddock with a few late starts. 12 pilots at goal. Nick Isaacs deserves a special mention - he started flying 4 months ago, had his first XC flight yesterday and made goal today flying a kingpost glider. =1st Andy Schmidt 43.9 km/h =1st Paul Kelley 43.9 km/h 3rd Phil Campbell 42.6 km/h

Overall results: 1st Gary Fimeri 3141 2nd Paul Kelley 2989 3rd Steve Blenkinsop 2753 State challenge - SA Team - Show me the money Kingpost Class - Jeronimo Lavanchy Floater Class - Rob Swart

No hard feelings

January 14, 2007, 4:46:13 pm AEDT

Feelings

Heather supports the Oz Report with a donation

Heather Mull|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Heather Mull, the Bogong Cup meet director, shows her support for the Oz Report, even if she doesn't agree with everything in the Oz Report by making a donation while we sit in front of the ice creamery in Bright:

Click on above for a higher resolution version. Photo by camera phone by Wesley Hill, meet scorekeeper.

Flatter than the Flatlands

April 25, 2006, 8:35:19 EDT

Birchip

Wind and no wind

Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

The results for the 2006 Flatter than the Flatlands held at Birchip over Easter are available at: http://www.hgfa.asn.au/~fttf/

The flying:

Good Friday looked good at the start and a 75 km task to the east was set. However, a small cold front moved through after only a few pilots had launched and the day was cancelled. Paul Kelley managed to get 50 km before he had to take 'evasive action'.

Saturday started windy. A 75 km task to Nyah West was set in anticipation of a moderating wind, and then cancelled mid-afternoon as the wind failed to cooperate. Many pilots then flew with three pilots making the goal.

From too windy to no wind on Sunday. A 53 km task was set to Litchfield. The thermals were mostly light to 3000 ft, occasionally going to 3500 ft, making a challenging task. While many pilots struggled to get away in the nil wind conditions, 11 pilots made goal. Tony Lowrey won the day with a time of 2 hrs 17 mins.

Monday saw a return to strong winds, but with 100% cloud cover the cycles were light and it was still possible to tow safely. Another 53 km task to the south was set. Even though there was no sun, there were thermals - most of them little more than zero. Phil Campbell won the day with 48 kms. He landed on a dry lake bed and got a lift back in an old (canvas covered) airplane that was just passing by.

Overall scores had Phil Campbell first, Andy Schmidt second and Wesley Hill third.

Bogong Cup 2006 - results »

Sun, Jan 15 2006, 12:06:30 am AEDT

Results

Thanks to Wes Hill for providing all the results each night and to Gerry for putting up the track logs.

Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2006|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Ferenc Gruber|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jack Simmons|Kevin Carter|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Wesley "Wes" Hill

TP Distance Name
To 0.0 km Mt Emu
1 28.1 km Gundowring
2 63.9 km Bullioh
3 99.7 km Gundowring
Goal 132.2 km Mt Beauty Air

Day Seven:

Place Name Glider Nation Start Finish Time km/h km Total
1 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 14:30:00 17:41:54 03:11:54 38.80 132.2 988
2 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 15:00:00 18:10:47 03:10:47 39.03 132.2 940
3 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 15:00:00 18:13:33 03:13:33 38.47 132.2 914
4 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 15:00:00 18:13:39 03:13:39 38.45 132.2 913
5 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 15:00:00 18:16:23 03:16:23 37.92 132.2 897
6 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 15:00:00 18:16:57 03:16:57 37.81 132.2 894
7 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 15:00:00 18:20:41 03:20:41 37.10 132.2 876
8 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 15:00:00 18:21:35 03:21:35 36.94 132.2 872
9 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 15:00:00 18:22:15 03:22:15 36.82 132.2 869
10 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 15:00:00 18:22:22 03:22:22 36.79 132.2 868
11 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 14:30:00 18:13:58 03:43:58 33.25 132.2 817
12 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 131.7 651
13 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 131.2 649
14 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 130.7 647
15 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 130.4 645
16 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 130.1 644
17 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 129.5 639
18 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 123.1 590
19 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 122.7 587
20 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 117.4 563
21 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 117.3 562
22 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 117.1 561
23 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 115.7 551
24 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 114.9 545
25 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 99.8 479
26 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 92.7 455
27 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed S3 Deu 90.4 447
28 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 80.3 410
29 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed S5 Deu 80.0 409
30 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 79.9 408
31 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 79.5 406
31 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 79.4 406
33 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 79.2 404
34 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 78.9 402
35 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 78.8 401
35 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 78.8 401
37 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 74.3 354
38 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 57.3 282
39 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 57.1 281
40 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 56.8 280
41 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 44.9 230
42 Schnitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 38.2 207
43 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 37.6 205
44 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 30.1 172
45 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 28.1 165
46 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 18.4 129
47 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 14.3 115
48 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 8.5 92
49 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 6.7 84
50 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 6.3 82
51 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 5.0 km 0.0 76
51 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 5.0 km 0.0 76

Total:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 6433
2 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 6010
3 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 5844
4 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 5671
5 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 5650
6 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 5446
7 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 5407
8 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 5263
9 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 5254
10 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 5234
11 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 5080
12 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 4975
13 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 4850
14 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 4733
15 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 4517
16 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 3984
17 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 3933
18 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 3848
19 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 3811
20 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 3785
21 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed S5 Deu 3702
22 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 3678
23 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed S3 Deu 3570
24 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 3450
25 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 3339
26 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 3188
27 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 3187
28 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2751
29 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 2718
30 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2706
31 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2511
32 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 2466
33 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 2354
34 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 2312
35 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 2246
36 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 2235
37 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 2171
38 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2129
39 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 2102
40 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 2069
41 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 2026
42 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 2020
43 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 1969
44 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 1961
45 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 1870
46 Tschurnig Guenther Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aut 1690
47 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 1610
48 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 1571
49 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1492
50 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1341
51 Schnitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 1325
52 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 1192
53 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1135
54 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1036
55 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 961
56 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 914
57 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 914
58 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 789
59 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 781
60 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 694
61 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 637
62 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 612
63 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 565
64 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 547
65 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 533
66 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 285

Using Google Earth you can view the entire 2006 Bogong Cup, just the tracks from day 7, or relive it all, almost as if you were actually there.

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Bogong Cup Results - Day 6

Fri, Jan 13 2006, 9:49:29 pm AEDT

Bogong Cup

Fifteen made goal

Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2006|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Ferenc Gruber|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jack Simmons|Kevin Carter|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Wesley "Wes" Hill

TP Distance Name
To 0.0 km Mt Emu
1 14.4 km Mongan's Bridge
2 51.6 km Mcguffies Bridge
3 80.4 km Kancoona Junct
Goal 104.7 km Mt Beauty Air

Day 6:

Place Name Glider Nation Start Finish Time km/h km Total
1 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 14:45:00 17:24:22 02:39:22 36.63 104.7 974
2 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 14:45:00 17:24:31 02:39:31 36.60 104.7 969
3 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 14:45:00 17:24:49 02:39:49 36.53 104.7 964
4 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 14:45:00 17:25:25 02:40:25 36.39 104.7 956
5 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 14:45:00 17:27:21 02:42:21 35.96 104.7 936
6 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 14:45:00 17:28:03 02:43:03 35.80 104.7 930
7 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 14:15:00 17:15:47 03:00:47 32.29 104.7 890
8 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:16:27 03:01:27 32.17 104.7 885
9 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 14:45:00 17:37:51 02:52:51 33.77 104.7 862
10 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 14:45:00 17:40:13 02:55:13 33.32 104.7 848
11 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 14:15:00 17:25:32 03:10:32 30.64 104.7 829
12 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 14:45:00 17:46:25 03:01:25 32.18 104.7 816
13 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 14:45:00 17:47:05 03:02:05 32.06 104.7 813
14 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 14:15:00 17:40:45 03:25:45 28.37 104.7 753
15 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 14:15:00 17:44:53 03:29:53 27.82 104.7 735
16 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 101.7 588
17 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 96.9 569
18 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed S3 Deu 95.5 562
19 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 92.8 549
20 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 81.1 504
21 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 54.8 423
22 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 51.3 409
23 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 41.9 373
23 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 41.7 373
25 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 38.6 357
26 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 38.2 355
27 Schhitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 35.0 334
28 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 33.7 326
29 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 33.4 324
30 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 33.3 323
31 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 29.0 291
32 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 26.7 277
32 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 26.6 277
34 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 26.4 275
35 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 25.2 267
36 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 23.0 249
37 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 20.4 229
38 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 20.0 226
39 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 19.8 225
40 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 17.8 210
40 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 17.8 210
42 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 14.7 184
43 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 14.5 182
43 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed S5 Deu 14.5 182
45 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 13.5 173
46 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 13.1 169
47 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 10.2 143
48 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 9.7 138
49 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 8.9 130
50 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 8.5 126
51 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 7.0 113
52 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 6.9 112
53 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 5.2 96
54 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 5.0 km 0.0 94
54 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 94

Totals:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 5519
2 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 5113
3 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 4972
4 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 4833
5 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 4731
6 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 4673
7 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 4609
8 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 4585
9 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 4577
10 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 4494
11 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 4212
12 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 3987
13 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 3982
14 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 3954
15 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 3826
16 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 3529
17 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed S5 Deu 3304
18 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 3220
19 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 3210
20 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 3176
21 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed S3 Deu 3123
22 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 3116
23 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 3039
24 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 2911
25 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 2700
26 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 2627
27 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2595
28 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2349
29 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2306
30 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 2251
31 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 2122
32 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 2056
33 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 2023
34 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 1966
35 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 1962
36 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 1962
37 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1936
38 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 1918
39 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 1900
40 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 1806
41 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 1800
42 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 1775
43 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 1727
44 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 1713
45 Tschurnig Guenther Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aut 1690
46 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 1610
47 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 1538
48 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1420
49 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 1302
50 Schhitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 1129
51 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1070
52 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 1069
53 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1054
54 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 925
55 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 883
56 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 857
57 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 849
58 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 724
59 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 717
60 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 629
61 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 572
62 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 558
63 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 548
64 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 500
65 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 468
66 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 296

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Bogong Cup 2006 - Day 4 results »

Wed, Jan 11 2006, 12:09:37 am AEDT

Bogong Results

The preliminary results

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The Task:

TP Distance Name
To 0.0 km Mystic Launch
1 58.2 km Millawa Airstrip
2 109.7 km Kancoona Junct
Goal 134.0 km Mt Beauty Air

The Results for day 4:

Place Name Glider Nation Start Finish Time Total
1 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 14:15:00 17:00:09 02:45:09 1000
2 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:06:46 02:51:46 918
3 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 14:15:00 17:07:04 02:52:04 915
4 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:08:40 02:53:40 901
5 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:11:18 02:56:18 879
6 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 14:15:00 17:12:02 02:57:02 873
7 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 14:15:00 17:12:17 02:57:17 871
8 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 14:15:00 17:15:52 03:00:52 845
9 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 14:45:00 17:54:01 03:09:01 753
10 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 14:15:00 17:37:56 03:22:56 720
11 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 14:45:00 18:13:34 03:28:34 679
12 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 14:15:00 17:54:30 03:39:30 653
13 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 14:45:00 18:50:19 04:05:19 576
14 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 14:15:00 18:26:26 04:11:26 560
15 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed 3 Deu 14:15:00 18:33:34 04:18:34 543
16 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed 5 Deu 14:15:00 18:39:03 04:24:03 530
17 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 115.2 491
18 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 113.0 485
19 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 108.3 467
20 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 107.1 461
21 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 100.5 429
22 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 75.7 363
23 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 65.1 332
24 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 53.3 298
25 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 51.9 294
26 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 37.3 246
27 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 14.7 192
28 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 14.4 191
29 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 11.5 180
30 Schhitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 11.2 178
31 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 11.0 177
32 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 10.7 175
32 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 10.6 175
34 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 8.2 154
34 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 8.1 154
36 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 7.4 146
37 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 5. 0 km 0.0 120
37 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120
37 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 5.0 km 0.0 120

Totals:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 3722
2 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 3383
3 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 3343
4 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 3296
5 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 3184
6 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 3113
7 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 3110
8 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 3030
9 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 3000
10 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 2957
11 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 2894
12 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 2859
13 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 2846
14 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 2616
15 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 2551
16 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 2490
17 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 2383
18 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 2312
19 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 2303
20 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed 5 Deu 2297
21 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 1849
22 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed 3 Deu 1816
23 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 1661
24 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 1611
25 Tschurnig Guenther Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aut 1565
26 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 1556
27 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1540
28 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 1530
29 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 1493
30 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 1416
31 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1370
32 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 1357
33 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 1348
34 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 1296
35 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 1283
36 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 1264
37 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1255
38 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 1229
39 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 1227
40 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 1106
41 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1094
42 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1052
43 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 1012
44 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 999
45 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 965
46 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 911
47 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 905
48 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 865
49 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 850
50 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 831
51 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 694
52 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 691
53 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 625
54 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 599
55 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 568
56 Schhitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 567
57 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 470
58 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 466
59 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 459
60 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 408
61 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 401
62 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 325
63 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 311
64 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 300
65 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 208
66 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 202

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Bogong Cup 2006 - totals »

Mon, Jan 9 2006, 9:41:58 pm AEDT

Bogong Totals

After three days

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Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 2722
2 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 2534
3 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 2515
4 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2504
5 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 2428
6 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2378
7 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 2368
8 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 2360
9 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 2339
10 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 2278
11 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 2183
12 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 2174
13 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 2155
14 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 2129
15 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 2023
16 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 1975
17 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 1954
18 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 1949
19 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed 5 Deu 1767
20 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 1678
21 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 1611
22 Tschurnig Guenther Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aut 1565
23 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 1556
24 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 1541
25 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1540
26 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 1416
27 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed 3 Deu 1273
28 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 1228
29 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 1196
30 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 1161
31 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 1119
32 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 1111
33 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 1109
34 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1094
35 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 1091
36 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 1073
37 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 1073
38 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1072
39 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 1052
40 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 1012
41 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 999
42 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 970
43 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 965
44 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 961
45 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 952
46 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 831
47 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 785
48 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 745
49 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 736
50 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 730
51 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 548
52 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 511
53 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 505
54 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 479
55 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 466
56 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 448
57 Schitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 389
58 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 350
59 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 300
60 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 288
61 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 284
62 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 281
63 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 208
64 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 205
65 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 202 Abs Abs 202
66 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 91 Abs 100 191

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Bogong Cup - Results from Day 3 »

Mon, Jan 9 2006, 9:40:06 pm AEDT

Bogong Results

Patience pays off

Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2006|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Ferenc Gruber|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jack Simmons|Kevin Carter|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Wesley "Wes" Hill

TP Distance Name
To 0.0 km Mystic Launch
1 26.2 km Ovens
2 52.9 km Running Creek
Goal 76.5 km Mt Beauty Air

Day three at goal:

Place Name Glider Nation Start Finish Time Total
1 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 14:00:00 15:45:26 01:45:26 881
2 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 13:30:00 15:40:04 02:10:04 799
3 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 13:30:00 15:44:53 02:14:53 777
4 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 16:07:19 02:07:19 761
4 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 14:00:00 16:07:21 02:07:21 761
6 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 14:00:00 16:07:28 02:07:28 760
7 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 13:30:00 16:05:04 02:35:04 701
8 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 16:26:48 02:26:48 700
9 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 13:30:00 16:08:30 02:38:30 690

Those who didn't make it that far:

10 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 73.9 610
11 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 73.5 608
12 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 70.1 584
13 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 68.8 576
14 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 67.4 566
15 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 67.2 564
16 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 66.9 561
17 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 63.6 530
18 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 60.0 508
19 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 57.7 495
20 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 56.1 484
21 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 55.8 482
22 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 54.9 474
23 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 53.6 461
24 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 52.0 446
25 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 49.8 429
26 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed 5 Deu 45.2 402
27 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 38.2 367
28 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 23.7 303
29 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 15.2 263
30 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 15.1 262
31 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 12.9 247
32 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 12.7 245
33 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 12.6 244
34 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 11.4 231
35 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 11.3 229
36 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 10.9 225
37 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 10.2 216
38 Tschurnig Guenther Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aut 10.0 213
38 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 10.0 213
40 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 9.8 209
41 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 9.7 208
42 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 9.5 204
43 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 9.0 193
44 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 8.4 181
45 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 8.0 173
45 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 8.0 173
45 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 8.0 173
48 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed 3 Deu 7.9 170
48 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 7.9 170
50 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 7.2 152
51 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 6.6 137
52 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 6.4 132
53 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 6.2 127
54 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 0.0 100
54 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 0.0 100
54 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 0.0 100
54 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 0.0 100
54 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 0.0 100
54 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 0.0 100
54 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 0.0 100
54 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 0.0 100
54 Schhitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 0.0 100
54 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 0.0 100
64 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 0.0 0
64 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 0.0 0
64 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 0.0 0

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Bogong Cup - results for day two »

Sun, Jan 8 2006, 10:16:31 pm AEDT

Bogong results

43 pilots out of 65 make goal.

Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2006|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Ferenc Gruber|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jack Simmons|Kevin Carter|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Wesley "Wes" Hill

TP Distance Name
To 0.0 km Buffalo Launch
1 24.7 km Snow Road / Ovens Int
2 52.4 km Porpunkah Bridge
3 84.5 km Dederang Gap Intersection
Goal 120.0 km Mt Beauty Air

Place Name Glider Nation Start Finish Time Total
1 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 14:00:00 16:19:16 02:19:16 1000
2 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 14:00:00 16:19:31 02:19:31 990
3 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 14:00:00 16:19:34 02:19:34 989
4 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 14:00:00 16:21:58 02:21:58 944
5 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 16:22:01 02:22:01 943
6 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 14:00:00 16:22:32 02:22:32 935
7 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 14:00:00 16:22:50 02:22:50 931
8 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 14:00:00 16:22:51 02:22:51 930
8 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 14:00:00 16:22:54 02:22:54 930
10 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 14:00:00 16:22:59 02:22:59 929
11 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 16:23:42 02:23:42 919
12 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 14:00:00 16:29:46 02:29:46 846
13 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 14:00:00 16:30:28 02:30:28 839
14 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 14:00:00 16:35:55 02:35:55 785
15 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 13:30:00 16:23:24 02:53:24 745
16 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 13:30:00 16:23:48 02:53:48 742
17 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 14:00:00 16:42:19 02:42:19 731
18 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 14:00:00 16:42:39 02:42:39 728
19 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed 5 Deu 14:00:00 16:44:11 02:44:11 716
20 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:30:00 17:13:18 02:43:18 673
21 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 14:00:00 16:53:02 02:53:02 653
22 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed 3 Deu 14:00:00 16:54:48 02:54:48 642
23 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 14:00:00 17:01:34 03:01:34 601
24 Tschurnig Guenther Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aut 14:00:00 17:03:16 03:03:16 591
25 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 14:00:00 17:08:17 03:08:17 565
26 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 14:00:00 17:13:45 03:13:45 538
27 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 14:00:00 17:16:04 03:16:04 527
28 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 17:16:30 03:16:30 525
29 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 14:00:00 17:18:22 03:18:22 517
30 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 14:00:00 17:19:10 03:19:10 513
31 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 14:00:00 17:28:05 03:28:05 477
32 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 14:00:00 17:29:38 03:29:38 471
33 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 14:00:00 17:31:41 03:31:41 463
34 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 14:00:00 17:33:09 03:33:09 457
35 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 14:00:00 17:34:00 03:34:00 454
36 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 14:00:00 17:34:11 03:34:11 453
37 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 14:00:00 17:35:13 03:35:13 450
38 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 14:00:00 17:53:50 03:53:50 397
38 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 14:00:00 17:54:11 03:54:11 397
38 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 17:55:19 03:55:19 397
38 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 14:00:00 18:02:59 04:02:59 397
38 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 14:00:00 18:24:30 04:24:30 397
38 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:00:00 18:32:01 04:32:01 397
44 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 349
45 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 345
46 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 331
47 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 328
48 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 322
49 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 231
50 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 226
51 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 223
52 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 171
53 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 167
54 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 166
55 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 148
56 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 106
57 Schhitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 96
58 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 88
59 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus Minimum Distance Set To 5.0 km 32
59 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn Minimum Distance Set To 5.0 km 32
59 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus Minimum Distance Set To 5.0 km 32
59 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus Minimum Distance Set To 5.0 km 32
59 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn Minimum Distance Set To 5.0 km 32
59 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus Minimum Distance Set To 5.0 km 32
65 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 0
65 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 0

Totals after two days:

Place Name Glider Nation Total
1 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 1961
2 Ujhelyi Balazs Moyes Litespeed S5 Hun 1954
3 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 1852
4 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 1794
5 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1743
6 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 1692
7 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1688
8 Straub Davis Airborne C4 13 Usa 1687
9 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 1653
10 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 1638
11 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 1608
12 Loten Conrad Moyes Litespeed S4 Nzl 1493
13 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C4 13.5 Aus 1491
14 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 1479
15 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1429
16 Smith Chris Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Usa 1413
17 Carter Kevin Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 1406
18 Barret Scott Airborne C4 13 Aus 1370
19 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed 5 Deu 1365
20 Tschurnig Guenther Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aut 1352
21 Schroder Phil Airborne C4 13 Aus 1343
22 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 1187
23 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 1173
24 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 1128
25 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed 3 Deu 1103
26 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L15 Nzl 1103
27 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 1095
28 Olsson Andreas Wills Wing Talon 154 Swe 1068
29 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C4 14 Aus 1064
30 Heffer Dick Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 957
31 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Che 918
32 Kenney Tony Airborne C4 13 Aus 900
33 Mcneill Cameron Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 891
34 Brown Trent Airborne C4 13 Aus 886
35 Prahl Jim Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 865
36 Hubbard Guy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 836
37 Aitken Peter Airborne C4 14 Aus 831
38 Kowald Regan Moyes Litespeed S5 Aus 800
39 Sipos Gabor Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 757
40 Sato Fumihiro Moyes Litespeed S4 Jpn 752
41 Wilmott Ashley Airborne C2 13 Aus 707
42 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 648
43 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 644
44 Oliveira Eduardo Moyes Litespeed S4 Bra 624
45 Simmons Jack Wills Wing T2 154 Usa 554
46 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 13 Aus 553
47 Ishizaka Shigeto Aeros Combat L 13 Jpn 538
48 Dorich Craig Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 536
49 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 485
50 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 466
51 Gruber Ferenc Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 433
52 Breyley Richard Moyes Litesport 5 Aus 378
53 Pallett Nic Airborne Sting 154 Aus 378
54 Miller Lisa Airborne C4 13 Aus 348
55 Balko Imre Moyes Litespeed 4 Hun 303
56 Schhitzler Siggi Moyes Litespeed 4 Deu 289
57 Allen Paul Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 286
58 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 202
59 Ruckriegel Karl Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 188
60 Blain John Airborne Sting 154 Aus 184
61 Leach Peter Airborne Climax 14 Aus 181
62 Stokoe Mark Airborne Climax 14 Aus 177
63 Hasegawa Atsushi Wills Wing Fusion Sp 141 Jpn 108
64 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 105
65 Schatzmann Rolf Airborne C2 13 Gbr 91
66 Araki Nozomu Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Jpn 56

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Replaying the Bogong Cup

Sun, Jan 8 2006, 8:05:48 pm AEDT

Replay

View the pilots as they fly at the Bogong Cup

Andreas Olsson|Ashley Wilmott|Attila Bertok|Cameron McNeill|Chris Jones|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|David Seib|Davis Straub|Ferenc Gruber|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jack Simmons|Jon Durand snr|Kevin Carter|Mart Bosman|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Paul Allen|Phil Schroder|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Rolf Schatzmann|Steve Blenkinsop|Trent Brown|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Gerry writes:

You can set how many seconds apart your screen will be refreshed. If it can't keep up it just does it as often as it can. Default=5. You can set how many times real time you want the replay played at with the " speed="parameter. Default=20 but I may up that, it's pretty slow. You can list the names of the pilot(s) you want to display, capitalized like in the list (Andreas Olsson, Andy Schmidt, Ashley Wilmott, Atsushi Hasegawa, Attila Bertok, Balazs Ujhelyi, Birgit Svens, Cameron Mcneill, Cameron Turnbridge, Carole Tobler, Chris Jones, Chris Smith, Conrad Loten, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Craig Dorich, David Seib, Davis Straub, Dick Heffer, Eduardo Oliveira, Ferenc Gruber, Fumihiro Sato, Gabor Sipos, Geoff Ward, Gerolf Heinrichs, Gunther Tschurnig, Guy Hubbard, Imre Balko, Jack Simmons, Jim Prahl, Joerg Bajewski, John Blain, Jon Gjerde, Jon Jnr Durand, Jon Snr Durand, Karl Ruckriegel, Kevin Carter, Len Paton, Lisa Miller, Lukas Bader, Mark Stokoe, Mart Bosman, Michael Friesenbichler, Nic Pallett, nozumu, Oliver Barthelmes, Paul Allen, Peter Aitken, Peter Leach, Phil Pritchard, Phil Schroder, Regan Kowald, Richard Breyley, Richard Olbrich, Rohan Holtkamp, Rolf Schatzmann, Sam Prest, Scott Barret, Shigeto Ishizaka, Siggi Schitzler, Steve Blenkinsop, Steve Moyes, Stuart Coad, Tony Kenney, Trent Brown, Warren Simonsen, Wesley Hill), with"+" signs instead of spaces, separated by commas.

https://OzReport.com/KML_track.php?data=2006+Bogong+Cup+day+1&names=Davis+Straub,Kevin+Carter&refresh=1&speed=80

Leave off the "names=…" and it'll display ALL of the tracks.

You can also start at a particular time (in GMT since that's what the track logs are in). Otherwise the replay starts at the time of the first listed person's track log, probably a while before they even get their butt off the ground.

You can get rid of the displayed names by adding "label=0". Default=displayed.

https://OzReport.com/KML_track.php?data=2006+Bogong+Cup+day+1&refresh=1&speed=50&label=0&time=2006-01-07+02:00:00

It would take too long to refresh the tracks each time, so if you want to see the tracks during the replay just have them loaded & displayed first. Yeah, all the gliders just point north, making them point sort of in the average direction they had been traveling in will happen later. And yeah, they're all the same color.

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Bogong Cup 2006 - Day 1 results »

Sat, Jan 7 2006, 10:45:55 pm AEDT

Results

Wesley hill gets the results out fast.

Attila Bertok|Bogong Cup 2006|Conrad Loten|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Davis Straub|Ferenc Gruber|Gerolf Heinrichs|Jack Simmons|Kevin Carter|Oliver "Olli" Barthelmes|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Trent Brown|Wesley "Wes" Hill

TP Distance Name Speed Section
To 0.0 km Mt Emu
1 31.0 km Gundowring T Int Ss
2 63.4 km Ovenshv X
3 90.1 km Running Creek Int
Goal 113.7 km Mt Beauty Air Es

Place Name Glider Nation Start Finish Time Total
1 Bertok Attila Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Hun 14:45:00 17:20:40 02:35:40 972
2 Ujhelyi Balazs Aeros Combat 2 14 Hun 14:45:00 17:20:50 02:35:50 966
3 Heinrichs Gerolf Moyes Litespeed S4 Aut 14:15:00 17:13:09 02:58:09 862
4 Barthelmes Oliver Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 14:30:00 17:23:53 02:53:53 842
5 Schroder Phil Airborne Climax C2 14 Aus 14:30:00 17:26:49 02:56:49 820
6 Durand Jon Jnr Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:21:01 03:06:01 802
7 Bader Lukas Moyes Litespeed S4 Deu 14:15:00 17:21:54 03:06:54 796
8 Gjerde Jon Moyes Litespeed S4 Nor 14:15:00 17:25:08 03:10:08 774
8 Pritchard Phil Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:25:11 03:10:11 774
10 Holtkamp Rohan Airborne C2 13 Aus 14:15:00 17:26:00 03:11:00 768
11 Tschurnig Gunther 14:15:00 17:26:23 03:11:23 766
11 Friesenbichler Michael Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Aut 14:15:00 17:26:23 03:11:23 766
13 Straub Davis Moyes Litespeed S4 Usa 14:15:00 17:26:59 03:11:59 762
14 Paton Len Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:27:07 03:12:07 761
15 Moyes Steve Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 14:15:00 17:34:50 03:19:50 715
16 Carter Kevin Aeros Combat L15 Usa 14:15:00 17:41:02 03:26:02 682
17 Durand Jon Snr Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 14:15:00 17:41:12 03:26:12 681
18 Smith Chris 14:15:00 17:42:32 03:27:32 675
19 Bajewski Joerg Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Deu 14:15:00 17:46:16 03:31:16 657
19 Simonsen Warren Aeros Combat L14 Nzl 14:15:00 17:46:19 03:31:19 657
21 Jones Chris Moyes Litespeed S4 Aus 14:15:00 17:46:29 03:31:29 656
22 Blenkinsop Steve Airborne C2 13 Aus 14:15:00 17:53:17 03:38:17 626
23 Olsson Andreas Moyes Litespeed Swe 514
23 Aitken Peter 14:15:00 18:41:27 04:26:27 514
25 Mcneill Cameron 504
26 Seib David Moyes Litespeed S4.5 Aus 489
27 Simmons Jack 477
28 Schwiegershausen Corinna Moyes Litespeed S3.5 Deu 471
29 Barret Scott Airborne Climax 13 Aus 451
30 Hubbard Guy Aus 449
31 Ward Geoff Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 444
32 Brown Trent Moyes Sonic 165 Aus 439
33 Heffer Dick 429
34 Turnbridge Cameron Airborne C2 14 Aus 420
35 Kowald Regan 412
36 Prahl Jim Usa 411
36 Tobler Carole Moyes Litespeed S4 Che 411
38 Bosman Mart Moyes Litespeed S5 Nld 353
39 Sipos Gabor 315
40 Prest Sam Airborne C2 13 Aus 307
40 Kenney Tony Airborne Climax 13 Aus 307
40 Coad Stuart Airborne C2 13 Aus 307
43 Sato Fumihiro 289
44 Wilmott Ashley 262
45 Oliveira Eduardo 235
46 Ishizaka Shigeto 224
47 Breyley Richard 219
48 Gruber Ferenc 218
49 Hill Wesley Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 210
50 Schhitzler Siggi 201
51 Miller Lisa Airborne Sting 140 Aus 184
52 Olbrich Richard Aeros Combat 2 14 Aus 163
52 Ruckriegel Karl 163
54 Schmidt Andy Moyes Litespeed 4 Aus 161
55 Pallett Nic 154
56 Stokoe Mark 153
57 Dorich Craig 146
58 Allen Paul Moyes Litesport Aus 126
59 Schatzmann Rolf 97
60 Balko Imre 83
61 Hasegawa Atsushi 82
62 Leach Peter 81
62 Loten Conrad 81
64 Svens Birgit Airborne Shark 144 Aus 80
65 Blain John Moyes Xtralite Aus 37

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Deni - Day 4

Sun, Jan 1 2006, 8:51:17 am AEDT

Deni

It's too hot.

Deniliquin 2006|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

Day 4 - It was TOO hot. Light cross winds (wrong strip) made it a long way between launches, and the heat was crippling. One pilot got to 9000 ft then bailed because he couldn't think straight (heat stroke). Best height over 10000 ft and Hugh Alexander got the furthest with 78 km. Overall results changed dramatically as many pilots did not fly - Andy Phillips has taken the lead.

No flying today (Saturday) due to the total fire ban. 45 forecast and currently 44.4 (at 15:00).

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Deni Comp

December 31, 2005, 3:57:46 pm AEDT

Deni

Good flatland flying.

Peter Lissenburg|Rohan Taylor|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

We are scoring each class separately and also providing 'handicap' scores. The handicap scores are calculated by taking the Open task and increasing the turnpoint/Goal cylinders in size so that they encompass the Race/Floater tasks, then rescoring the Race/Floater pilots using these tasks. This is an experiment, but it may be possible for all classes to be scored on the same task by applying this principal.

Day 1 - Light northerly winds, mid 30s on the ground. A few lucky pilots got over 9000 ft. Peter Lissenburg won the day landing 5 km short of the 92 km task. Many of the pilots had GPS problems which affected their scores.

Day 2 - Moderate Westerlies, low 30s. 3 pilots at the Open task goal (90 km) and 1 at the Race class goal (60 km). Alan Beavis averaged 50 km/hr to win the Open task, while Stewart Dennis won on handicap.

Day 3 - Light Westerlies, high 30s. Most of the pilots made goal. Strong consistent thermals to 6000 ft (One pilot reported getting 10000 ft) made it a fast task. John Duffield won the Open class averaging 51 km/hr, Birgit Svens won Race class and Andrew Taylor won the Floater task.

Day 4 - expecting light northerlies, low 40s!

Results are online at http://weshill.customer.netspace.net.au.

2005 Worlds at Hay

Fri, May 27 2005, 9:00:05 pm GMT

Response to response and so on.

the Worlds

CIVL|John Aldridge|Rohan Taylor|Wesley "Wes" Hill|Worlds 2005

John Aldridge «HGMeethead» writes:

I am away from home running a competition at the moment and do not have either the time or the inclination to answer in detail the inaccurate and irrelevant "facts" quoted by Rohan. His opening paragraph set the tone in total inaccuracy.

I have twice publicly criticised the organisation of the Hay Worlds, both times I did this as a CIVL official; firstly in my Jury President's report and the second time in my report to the 2005 Plenary in Guatemala. If Rohan feels that the criticism I made was inaccurate I suggest that he seeks the support of his delegate and his national aeroclub to seek a correction from CIVL.

I am quite prepared to provide details to support every criticism I made - and more - if such a request is received by CIVL. I would like to add that my criticism has always been aimed at those at the top i.e. Rohan and his Meet Director, Paul Rundell. I recognise the hard work and enthusiasm of the majority of the staff working at the meet, in particular the flight line staff, trolley dollies, trolley catchers, tug pilots, Wes Hill on the scoring and Sandra with the admin.

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Birchip Flatter than the Flatlands

Tue, Mar 29 2005, 4:00:04 am EST

Wesley does more than keep score.

Peter Lissenburg|Steve Blenkinsop|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

Birchip Flatter than the Flatlands comp results are available at http://hgfa.asn.au/~fttf

Easter Friday - Strong winds all day so the day was cancelled

Easter Saturday - No wind. It was a long wait to tow at times, with many pilots not flying. The task was 53km to Beulah. Many pilots started late and despite significant lack of sunshine, good thermals to 4000ft were experienced. 1st Steve Blenkinsop 51.5kms, 2nd Wesley Hill 48.8kms, 3rd Brent Telford 42.7kms.

Easter Sunday - Light SW winds. An excellent day with some strong thermals. 21 pilots made goal near Lake Boga (64kms). 1st Alan Beavis 1hr 29mins, 2nd Trevor Sangster 1hr 34mins, 3rd Peter Lissenberg 1hr 43mins.

Easter Monday - Very light Southerly. Task was set to Nandaly, 62kms to the north. An epic day with 20 pilots at goal. 1st Steve Blenkinsop, 1hr 40mins, 2nd Wesley Hill 1hr 46mins 3rd, Gary Fimeri 1hr 48mins

Overall Results: 1st Wesley Hill, 2nd Peter Lissenburg, 3rd Alan Beavis

GPS⁣'s - they need to tell the truth »

Thu, Feb 3 2005, 6:00:01 am EST

An interesting thing happened at the Worlds.

GPS|Kevin Carter|record|Wesley "Wes" Hill

It turned out that on the last day of the Worlds, a pilot flying in a Compeo or a 5030 as well as a Garmin GPS was found to have two tracklogs that were separated by 200 meters. A pilot flying near the said pilot noticed that the pilot turned before he got close enough to the turnpoint (about 200 meters short) and wondered just what was going on.

Upon examination it was found that the pilot's Compeo was set to the Australian Geod '66 coordinate datum.

Then, on the day before the start of the Bogong Cup Wesley Hill, the scorekeeper at the Worlds and the Bogong Cup (with the Garmin 12), Kevin Carter (driver) and I (with a Flytec 5030) took a little drive. When we looked at the tracklogs (in CompeGPS) sure enough it was possible to change the datum in the 5030 and shift the tracklog without this being obvious, say to the scorekeeper, and the scorekeeping software.

After an extensive discussion with Flytec it was decided that the alternate datum feature would be removed from the Compeo and the 5030 and just the world standard, WGS84, would be supported. This is exactly what needed to happen. The new version of the firmware is available here.

Then, something else interesting happened. We looked at the fact that the Garmin GPS's leave an extrapolated track log for thirty seconds after losing the satellites, say when a competitor covers the GPS with his/her hand. This has been reported earlier in the Oz Report. So, like the 5030, the Garmin could lay down a track log that didn't correspond to where the pilot actually flew. It wasn't foolproof.

I spoke to a Garmin representative and found this out:

It is not possible to falsify a tracklog on a Garmin unit. The date and time stamp are removed when you upload to a unit and this function is contained within our core program which has never been broken. This core program is only accessible to Garmin Engineers and requires the correct codes and Garmin software building tools not available to anyone outside Garmin.

There was one small change for the pressure units. They have allowed the time stamp only, not the date to be uploaded to a unit so that it can display the elevation graph by time. They are thinking of removing this for security.

Propagation is where the unit will continue to lay down tracklog points even if there is a loss of reception. This is really for auto navigation but was unnecessary for the tracklog data. I have requested this be removed to allow Garmin to comply with the IGC requirements. They have already removed this from the new 76C and 96C series and we are planning to remove this feature from all models that will be used with the IGC. The units will still propagate but will no longer lay down a tracklog point.

Current propagation will leave points for thirty seconds after a loss of reception. The unit will lay these points in a straight line based on the last known track. So you can imagine you are approaching a turn point. Just cover the antenna, wait two-three seconds then complete the turn before the turn point and the unit will keep laying down points for thirty seconds and leave track points at the turn even though you were not there. This is what we are disabling in the new models.

Of course, it is rather difficult to use these "features" of these GPS's to any advantage in an actual competition. Still we rely on GPSes to give us a true record of where the pilot flew and any deviation from that standard is questionable. The feature has been removed from the latest version of the Compeo and 5030 software. It seems the feature will soon be removed from Garmin GPSs.

I personally feel that these are very small problems, but at the Bogong Cup we 5030 users were almost penalized by being required to go within 200 meters of a turnpoint instead of 400 meters. Thankfully a vote of the pilots bailed us out of that and similar other requirements. Later we allowed the other pilots to continue using their Garmins without requiring that they spend at least 30 seconds within the turnpoint cylinders. :-)

We should continue on as we have been using GPSes and virtual goals. Compeo and 5030 pilots should be required to update to the latest version of the software and this can be checked by the meet officials at waypoint download time. When the firmware fixes come out from Garmin, they should be required. MLR's are required to be in 3D mode.

CIVL - continental championships and juries »

Wed, Sep 22 2004, 3:00:03 pm EDT

How to cut down on the cost of World Championships by reducing the size of the travel club.

CIVL|Flip Koetsier|Fred Wilson|HPAC|James-Donald "Don" "Plummet" Carslaw|John Aldridge|PG|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Fred Wilson «safety» writes:

While the FAI General Section 4.3.2.1 allows Representative Juries, from what I've heard other Commissions have not had success with the system. Our test of the format will be the Hay Worlds, and if we are going to have any chance at all, it could not be better than with the CIVL team selected for this meet (Jim Zeiset, Flip Koetsier and John Aldridge are the CIVL Officials.) A powerhouse team. I don't envy them one bit, but our hopes and prayers are with them.

I can think of no better present place and time to discuss this than on the Oz Report because it is our failure (National Associations outside of Continental Europe) to provide adequate numbers of Stewards and Jury members that is forcing CIVL to go this route.

BACKGROUND

 The travel expenses of CIVL Officials are paid for by the event. In Continental Europe, with their large numbers of very professional National Associations, vast quantities of Cat 2 and Cat 1 Meets and their close proximity to each other, CIVL Officials are plentiful and travel expenses are minimal. Outside of Continental Europe the number of

a) individuals that have the background and training to host Cat 1 events

b) CIVL Officials (Stewards and Jury members) drops exponentially. And that means our costs go up, and our professional standards may be or are lower. As a side note, Hang Gliding numbers are plummeting world wide. Cat 1 events are as high profile a media exposure as we could ask for. More Cat 1 and feeder meets should translate into more pilots entering the sport as the public becomes more aware of the recreational opportunities we offer.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

I'm doing my bit. I'm going to the European Paragliding Continentals on my own dime. Starting Monday I'll be doing secretarial duties for the next two weeks for Leonard Grigorescu, (CIVL Jury & Steward Co-ordinator) updating the missing Jury Reports. We will have this posted on the CIVL Web site in plenty of time for the national teams to study.

What can you do?

If you are a fanatic competitor, you need to think to the future. One of these days you are going to burn out, old age will creep in and / or your competitive edge will begin to fade. But if your passion for the competition scene will stay strong, you need to start getting the background training and education to step up into another level of participation: to take on the role as a top level meet official. That means get involved with organizing and running all levels of meets and go out of your way to volunteer as Task Committee and Jury members at Cat 2 and other high profile meets with a long term plan to become one of the quality people appointed to become CIVL Officials. The perks are impressive.

The Hay Jury National teams need to start thinking about who they are going to appoint to the Jury, and these individuals need to be hitting the books in preparation for their role. The relevant study material is the

a) FAI General Section

b) Section 7

c) CIVL Jury and Steward Handbook

d) Jury Reports

e) the Local Rules

CONCLUSION

If the Representative Jury experiment is not successful in Hay, CIVL will revert to using appointed Juries. In that case, we in North and South America, In Africa, Central and South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand are going to have to step up to the plate and increase our numbers of Jury (and Steward) members to adequate levels. That is one of the key components to ensure the propagation of Cat 1 events outside of Continental Europe.

A sad commentary on the current state of affairs: When was the last American or Pan-American continentals? What is the ratio of Cat 1 events in other Continents compared to Continental Europe? Things are improving, especially recently, but we still have a long way to go.

CIVL, in particular noting the hard work of a few individuals, has recently:

a) made dramatic improvements to Section 7;

b) reduced the organizational headaches of hosting Cat 1 meets; and

c) taken steps to tackle the cost of hosting Cat 1 events.

That should immediately translate into more Cat 1 meets, particularly outside of Continental Europe and that is good for the sport. If the Representative Jury experiment succeeds, all the better. If not, it's up to us to "skin the cat."

Comments anyone? I'm no expert but I feel that this topic is worthy of further discussion.

(editor's note: See my response tomorrow.)

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

The "Representative Jury" was used at the Asian Paragliding comp in Korea. I have met one of the jury members who said it worked well (and saved a lot of money).

Paragliding Comp in Taiwan

Sat, Jul 31 2004, 3:00:04 am EDT

Bigger tasks for paragliders.

PG|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

I am currently in Taiwan assisting at a paragliding comp. We have flown the last 4 days and the pilots are attempting a 50km speed run followed by open distance today.

Day 1 was a 45km task with 27 pilots at goal, and was won by Y0NG MOOK, Won from Korea. Day 2 was won by AKIRA, Kojima from Japan, who landed 200m short of the 70km goal. Day 3 was a 43 km out & return. SANG JOON, Park from Korea with a distance of 40km. 1st on day 4 was Y0NG MOOK, Wom again, making goal in 3hrs 09mins and regaining the overall lead.

Details of the competition are available here.

Results are available here.

$25,000 for paraglider contest

Mon, Jul 26 2004, 1:30:03 pm EDT

Paragliding in Taiwan

PG|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

The comp here has finished after flying for 6 of the 7 days. Won Y0NG MOOK won the 5th day with a time of 2:05 for the 51km speed section, and a distance of 65. 8km.

Day 6 was a 42km Race, and included a 10km headwind section. It was won by Kim JIN ON with a time of 1:51.

Overall the Koreans dominated, taking home about US25,000 in prize money. Won Y0NG MOOK was 1st, followed by Kim JIN ON and No SOO HYUN.

Results available at http://weshill.customer.netspace.net.au/taiwan2004.html

Birchip Flats

Thu, Apr 15 2004, 3:00:01 pm EDT

2004 Flatter than the Flatlands.

Birchip

Birchip 2004|Rohan Holtkamp|Rohan Taylor|Steve Blenkinsop|Tim Osborn|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill «wesleyianhill» writes:

The Birchip 2004 Flatter than the Flatlands results are on the website at http://www.hgfa.asn.au/~fttf/04result.html. Rohan Holtkamp won with Tim Osborne taking out second and Steve Blenkinsop third.

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Hay Open - day seven, task five »

Tue, Jan 13 2004, 5:00:00 pm GMT

the Hay Open

Angelo Crapanzano|Belinda Boulter|David Glover|Hay Open 2004|Joe Balbona|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Oleg Bondarchuk|Rohan Taylor|Tove Heaney|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Results (thanks to Dave Seib) at:

http://www.moyes.com.au/hayopen2004/

It's Wednesday, the 14th, and today was supposed to be the first day of the Pre-Worlds, but the pilots voted to make this a practice day for the Pre-Worlds (as incorrectly indicated on the Dynamic Flight web site). It was a close vote, with one vote for the majority, but given that it blew hard out of the south all night and is still blowing this morning, it looks like a good call.

The pilots were really beat up after day four with Oleg not flying and going to the doctor to get treated for Bronchitis. Everyone seems to be doing a lot better after the fifth day of flying yesterday.

Often, in spite of its many physical demands, hang gliding competition is for the most part a mental game. Flying a flex wing has reminded me about how physical it is (and by getting more experienced at it, it becomes less physical), but yesterday's task also brought the mental aspects to the foreground. We've been doing a lot of flying into the wind in this meet, and yesterday we really put ourselves to the test.

I am a big proponent of giving the pilot task committee all the authority to choose the tasks. David Glover and Tove Heaney follow that approach, and Tove was the one that taught me the benefits of such an approach. Paul Rundell and Wesley Hill have always reserved the ultimate authority to choose the tasks here at Hay, for good or ill. One problem here is that we have two venues, the aerotow area and the car tow area, and with the task committee members widely separated it is hard to get them together for a consensus.

Yesterday, there apparently was no consensus and Paul made a task call that was different from any that the task committee came up with, perhaps unduly influenced by his desire to get us here home for the presentation (that was in fact later postponed for today). Part of the reason I favor a pilot only task committee is to get rid of these possible influences, or even the appearance of these influences on task calling.

With the winds projected to increase to 20 to 25 kilometers per hour of the west-southwest, Paul calls an "interesting" task. We are to go northeast thirty kilometers to Old Gallah, turn around and come southwest thirty five kilometers back down the Midwestern highway to the tower at the intersection with the Carrathool Road, then 66 kilometers east, downwind over the road by the Murrumbidgee to our first turnpoint on the first task, then back straight west twenty five kilometers to the Race Track.

This tasks puts the upwind leg as the second (and four) leg meaning that those who are able to make it around the second turnpoint will be able to fly much further easier than those who don't get that far. We try to avoid this situation, although Angelo Crapanzano claims that GAP should account for most the the difference.

The forecast calls for higher bases (maybe 8,500' MSL, and the change of thunderstorms. While there doesn't appear to be any chance here, we can see the clouds out past Griffith, 100 kilometers to our east. The clouds don't look too threatening at noon, but who knows.

With the ever eager boys from Western Australia already lined by to tow with Grant I'm last in line again, which is fine by me, because I'm looking for a later start. The winds in the tow paddock are light on the ground, so the predicted winds haven't come yet.

I keep an eye on the Moyes tow line and see that the leader, Craig Coomber, is launching two minutes before me so I've got a big psychological boost. There is a big fat thermal right in front of the tow line, but I signal Grant to come around once more to get some altitude and then pin off in it at 1,000' AGL.

The wind up above has spread everyone out, so I'm alone in the sweet fat lift, until Craig and a few others nearby spot me and come in under. The lift is much wider and softer than the previous day as the high pressure weakens and the instability increases.

We drift toward the 30 kilometer entry start cylinder climbing to over 5,000' AGL. My supposed strategy is to stay with Craig and we are looking good. The gaggle in front of us is going to be forced to take the 2:30 start and we'll be in a great position to take the the 2:45.

The six pilots in our gaggle drift into the entry start circle but then head back out just in time to get the 2:45 start time. I'm in front and a little lower but get the start time first and head out. It's looking good and I'm not worried about being a little below the rest of the gaggle as I figure I can get the lift first and catch up.

There is good lift out on the first leg and we all fly fast and climb to 7,000'. It takes half an hour to fly 30 kilometers. My average L/D over the ground while gliding was 21:1.

As we round the turnpoint at Old Gallah, we get to face into the winds. Belinda has previously called from the tow paddock saying that soon after I launched the winds picked up strongly.

Our gaggle is staying strong together and I'm with Bo, Diego, Craig and a few others. We find good lift and in spite of the winds we are doing fell and feeling good. Everyone begins to spread out and soon the gaggle is no more.

I'm noticing that the 5030 is measuring the winds at 30 to 35 kph out of the west. This is far stronger than any winds we've encountered during the meet. With the strong lift we are still doing fine, but the highway is further and further away to the west.

Jonny gets very low, down to 500 feet soon after the turnpoint. Many pilots are landing by the highway or to the east of the highway. Those of us finding lift are getting up to 7,000' or even higher. It always seems to be more turbulent when flying upwind, but the thermals are in general pretty smooth and large enough for getting lift all the way around.

I've got a couple of pilots following me so I've got some help centering the thermals. Looking ahead I see a few pilots low not finding much lift. When you see a pilot turning ahead, there is only a slight chance you can get to them given the strong winds.

It's now a tricky question of motivation, desire, and uncertainty. With few pilots to see, its hard to tell how things stand overall. With the strong winds, its hard to see much progress. You lose about three kilometers with each climb, and the lift has to be stronger than 400 FPM for you to be able to make progress toward the turnpoint. This cuts down a lot on the lift you can afford to take. The fact that this upwind leg is earlier in the task means that there is a better chance for strong lift.

I hear from Bo he is now 8 kilometers ahead with Rohan. Jonny has drifted all the way back to the turnpoint and is getting up. Bo will later say that four times he went back and forth between 3 kilometers from the turnpoint to seven kilometers to the turnpoint. Finally, he will just push straight ahead and land at the second turnpoint with Rohan finding the lift to get around the turnpoint.

I climb up to 8,500' feet at 700 FPM and go on glide. My 5030 is showing that I am often getting a glide ratio of 2.6 to 1 going into the wind. I glide to within eight kilometers at 2,500' to find 100 fpm lift that takes we further away from the road. I haven't been able to get to the road during this second leg.

I drift even further away from the road low and in broken light lift. I lose the thermal and head straight from the road hoping against hope for more lift but not finding any I land .8 of a kilometer of the road. It will take two hours to go the 26 kilometers with an average glider ratio of 7.5:1. I'll land at 5:30 PM.

Meanwhile Craig will be nearing the turnpoint. He will push a little too hard and land next to it. Jonny is still in the air having been left far behind. He is working his way closer to the turnpoint but feels that he won't make it around. Attila is unable to make the turnpoint and lands and Jonny right above him finds a thermal and is able to get back up. AT 6:30 Jonny climbs to over 8,000' and makes the second turnpoint.

Rohan, Gerolf, and Lukas Bader have already rounded the turnpoint and are heading downwind to the third turnpoint. It is now late in the day and while the wind is now very much in their favor, there is less lift and the winds are so strong that the thermals are widely spaced. When I was at 3,000' AGL I noticed that I was getting 45 kph winds out of the west. I had difficulty ground handling the glider, so I didn't attempt to walk at glider to the road with it set up.

Jonny finds almost no lift but gets 40 kilometers just drifting downwind from 8,000'. As Craig has landed at the turnpoint it appears that Jonny has past him for the lead. Lukas is able to get the turnpoint and come within 8 kilometers of the goal, and he is the closest one. Gerolf makes the third turnpoint.

The results are not published yet and won't be until tonight at the presentation dinner. So at the moment we don't know who has won. The day will be less valid given the fact that most of the pilots didn't get 50% of the course distance.

Results tomorrow or see URL above.

Joe Balbona «joe» writes:

So Davis is the number one US pilot after three days, number ten overall and he still wants to fly an ATOS? Maybe in another 5 years, not now!

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Birchip Results

Thu, Apr 24 2003, 5:00:04 pm EDT

scoring|Wesley "Wes" Hill

Wesley Hill <wesleyianhill@yahoo.com.au> sends in the results of the Birchip Flatter Than The Flatlands:

1 BARRET, Scott, 34 262
2 HOLTKAMP, Rohan, 26 257
3 OSBOURNE, Tim, 423 237
4 TELFORD, Brent, 554 231
5 LOWREY, Tony, 29 229
6 RICKARD, Jeff, 64 224
7 LISSENBURG, Peter, 28 220
8 PREST, Sam, 115 219
9 REES, Ian, 676 213
10 RUNDELL, Paul, 589 210

Gap was not used - details of the scoring system can be found at: http://www.netspace.net.au/~weshill/4sdoc.html. Contact <wesleyianhill@yahoo.com.au> for the files to implement this in Race.

Full results will be available at http://www.ains.net.au/~warwickduncan

Discuss competitions at OzReport.com/forum/phpBB2

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Bogong Cup – day five »

Sat, Jan 11 2003, 6:00:00 am GMT

Aeros Combat 2|ATOS|Combat|Gerolf Heinrichs|Gordon Rigg|Kari Castle|Kraig Coomber|Lukas Bader|Moyes Litespeed|Paris Williams|Ron Gleason|Ton Draaijer|Wesley "Wes" Hill|Wills Wing Talon

http://www.cool-ether.net.au/australianopen

or likely up on the following site earlier (thanks to the scorer, Wesley Hill)

www.davisstraub.com/bogong

The forecast is for southeast winds at 10 to15 mph out at Wangaratta, over the back of the Pines launch. We’re hoping that the south, southwest facing launch can handle that, as we have no other place to go.

We do go back to Buckland Ridge, the Pines, and there is a bit of wind coming right up the launch. It’s looking good, except for the fact that the air looks like it is Los Angeles. With the light winds and the prolific smoke producing fires, the air is full of smoke everywhere we look. Not that we can see that far. Visibility is reduces to about 5 miles.

They want to get us out and away from the area and with the short task yesterday, the task committee decides on a long one, 100 miles to the west to Rochester just south of Echuca. With a light southeasterly wind we will have a quartering tail wind, which is appreciated.

After the first few pilots in the open launch window get up good it turns scratchy at launch and I unload half my ballast. Half an hour later in ordered launch Lukas Bader is just before me in the launch line and when I notice a pilot turning sharply on our left I yell out to him to go to the left. We both head over there with Gordon Rigg and another pilot and right next to the hill side four of us work it hard to climb out in the rough air.

Lukas and I get high and head down the ridge toward the start circle 10 km to the west. By this time there are about thirty pilots just a few hundred feet over launch near the launch trying hard to stay up. The thermal stops and they all head down the ridge just skimming over the top and not far above the bomb out paddock. They need to find something quick.

The open launch pilots are high and we work lift a few km west down the ridge as the pilots who were low find it and save themselves. We can’t see the area for the start circle, so we don’t know if there are pilots there yet but a few of us head over to see if we can find lift out over the flats and get in the start circle. It’s almost time for the 2:30 start time, but we will not get there in time.

We want to get going as early as possible given the long task. There is lift in the start circle and we gaggle up climbing to over 6,000’ two km from the start circle. Gordon Rigg and I head for the circumference as the other lag behind. We spot another gaggle closer to the edge that we were unable to spot although they were only 2 km away from us.

The lift is strong enough in spite of all the smoke, but it hasn’t been mellowed out at all. We had thought it would after what happened on the last day of the Worlds in Chelan when we were almost in the smoke, but no, the air sucks, and the glider is bucking.

Our course takes us back out to Maccas on the freeway and Tony on his ATOS and I catch up with the open window pilots who got higher at the start circle given their earlier launch and we work 500 fpm back up to over 6,000’. At this point we are the lead gaggle and there are about five flex wing pilots and Tony over my head. The lift has slowed down but no one is going. The open window pilots are on top of the gaggle but as they are not the top pilots they are reluctant to lead.

I don’t want the pilots who will take the next start time to catch us, and it looks like we are with a bunch of slow pilots, so in frustration I take off on the course. Tony will follow behind me. Johann and Ron Gleason are behind and will take the 3 o’clock start time. Johann was with Ton in the start circle but lost track of him in the haze, and didn’t follow when we started.

I’m leaving the lead gaggle out of frustration with it and I know that this is almost always a bad move, especially when I don’t see anyone coming with me. The air sucks and I continue flying through some rowdy lift, not bothering to make a turn and see if anyone is coming. I find the conditions most unpleasant.

Out in the distance I see the outlines of a lake. I had forgotten to look at the map and didn’t realize that our course line would take us directly over a large lake. I can barely make it out and can’t see the extent of its far western and northern shores.

I know have to decide either south off the course line around the lake, or to the north, a bit over the lake. I can now see the south shore and with the prevalent southeast wind, I decide to stay up wind of the lake for better chances of lift.

Tony follows me for a while then notices that Oleg heads more on the course line to the right across the lake with Bruno so he turns and joins him. They will glide almost to the western end of the lake before they find lift.

I will also glide almost to the southwestern end of the lake before I find weak lift at 2,000’ AGL. After a long search I finally get the good stuff and get back to almost 6,000’.

Now I’m out on my own and I will only see one other glider briefly during the rest of the task. Tony, Oleg and Bruno will gaggle up and fly together for the rest of the task. Johann and Ron Gleason will go across the northern side of the lake, find poor lift and land there. Another small gaggle of flex wings including Paris will fly separately from Oleg, Tony and Bruno.

The lift is still rough, but the winds are light and there are plenty of small roads down below in the open range lands. I get down to 1,000’ AGL a few times, but by being careful and working light lift in the hard spots, I’m able to find much better lift. I’m wondering just how fast I’m going with respect to the other pilots as they are way off to my north and I’ve taken a much longer route.

Finally by 5 o’clock the rough air turns smooth and the thermals consistent as I climb out in 700 fpm to 6,500’. Now I’m really enjoying the flight. I hear that Tony is 50 km our having flown over Shepparton. I’m 55 km out from goal and about 10 km south of Shepparton.

With smooth strong lift I go on long runs making sure that I find myself over brown fields as the level of irrigation increases significantly in this area. I’m racing to catch up with Tony and the lead gaggle.

At forty minutes out I’m down to 1,500’ AGL, but over a brown field and in strong lift. The flying turns even better and I’m really enjoying the air. I can’t see or track the lead gaggle, so I’m flying as fast as I can.

Twenty five km out at 5,500’ AGL, I go on final glide figuring I will get near 20 to 1 glide given the 8 mph quartering tail wind. I stop for a little 500 foot gain as insurance 10 km out, but it turns out I won’t need it.

The goal is a virtual goal, at an intersection just east of Rochester. As I come in at 900 I don’t see any goal crew or any gliders. I begin to wonder if I’ve got the right coordinates.

There isn’t a great landing field near the goal so I slide over to the south and land in a big friendly field. Ten minutes later I see Tony, Oleg, Paris, and about three other gliders all come in close together. Tony will be second for the day just ahead of Oleg.

Paris, Attila, Bo (3 out of 4 of the Combat’s at the meet will make goal), Bruno, Gordon, Kraig, Rohan, Jonny, Kari, Lukas and a few others will be at goal. Gerolf will not make goal and he was in first place.

Tony won the day yesterday and now is in first overall. I won the day today and should move into the top ten, after not making goal on the first day. Felix at AIR will be happy. We get back at midnight, so the scores will be late.

I launch at the Pines.

Preliminary (twenty pilots missing) day four:

1 STRAUB, Davis, 36 Air Atos C 145 USA 14:45:00 18:12:01 3:27:01 977
2 WILLIAMS, Paris, 81 Icaro Laminar St14 USA 15:00:00 18:23:41 3:23:41 971
3 RAUMAUF, Toni, 29 Air Atos AUT 14:45:00 18:22:23 3:37:23 932
4 BERTOK, Attila, 55 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 14:45:00 18:23:53 3:38:53 916
5 DURAND, Jon Jnr., 43 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 14:45:00 19:01:33 4:16:33 816
6 COOMBER, Kraig, 77 Moyes Litespeed AUS 14:45:00 19:01:41 4:16:41 813
7 RIGG, Gordon, 48 Moyes Litespeed 4 GBR 14:45:00 19:01:50 4:16:50 811
8 BADER, Lucas, 22 Aeros Combat 2 DEU 14:30:00 19:12:12 4:42:12 772
9 CASTLE, Kari, 69 Icaro MR700 USA 14:45:00 19:24:35 4:39:35 760
10 MULLER, Chris, 41 Wills Wing Talon 154 CAN 14:30:00 19:18:51 4:48:51 758

Preliminary total after dour days:

1 RAUMAUF, Toni, 29 Air Atos AUT 3651
2 WILLIAMS, Paris, 81 Icaro Laminar St14 USA 3491
3 COOMBER, Kraig, 77 Moyes Litespeed AUS 3459
4 BERTOK, Attila, 55 Moyes Litespeed 5 HUN 3424
5 HEINRICHS, Gerolf, 71 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUT 3394
6 DURAND, Jon Jnr., 43 Moyes Litespeed 4 AUS 3260
7 STRAUB, Davis, 36 Air Atos C 145 USA 3141
8 RIGG, Gordon, 48 Moyes Litespeed 4 GBR 3027
9 BADER, Lucas, 22 Aeros Combat 2 DEU 2932
10 CASTLE, Kari, 69 Icaro MR700 USA 2917

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