Olc stratum 0 zero mini, black ornament 18350 mosfet tube mod img. At least i recall a conversation between altair owners who mentioned you had to use an older build to get the functionality. Please check the contest rules before you will take part in certain competition. Wave flying is just one more of the many benefits to pilots who choose to fly from williams soaring center. From tuesday october 10th, flight claims will be scored in the olc 2007. The 1st fai pan american gliding competition, hosted in the us in 2015 and the 2nd in argentina in 2017. We have worked together with the olc team to create a solution which is very easy to use and satisfies the requirements from olc. Data on the mass download of flight data download of socalled igc files. Established in 1975, the club is located 47 miles northwest of downtown houston and 10 minutes north of waller, tx. Troughs crossing the area towards the east leave cool unstable air that comes along with long soaring days, thermals starting around 9.
Segelflugszene translates as gliding scene in english. Region 3 soaring contest tue aug 19 fai day 3, sports no day. The four critical soaring skills that we need to imbibe are. The sportsmanship of using the functionality in competitions seems dubious at best, has it been specifically ruled against by fai or other gliding bodies. This article is within the scope of the aviation wikiproject. Olc submitted flights can be used for fai badge claims. Header content region insert text, image or banner ads here, or just delete this text and leave this area blank. Also, because of this builtin security, flight files can be downloaded and. Olc the worldwide leading onlinexcountry contest for hang gliding, paragliding, soaring and model gliding.
Everybodys first gliding book is to help you start gliding. All flights submitted to the olc will automatically get points in all 3 contests assuming they qualify for all 3. We hope this national online contest encourages paraglider and hang glider pilots to submit their track logs in friendly competition and to share with others their flights made from any site within australia. It is fun to download and view other flights from the olc web site. Join chuck as he shares his adventures and talks with other aviators around the globe. The olc site takes flight logs submitted by individual pilots and scores them automatically. The olc, online contest, is an informal and friendly internet competition where glider pilots upload their gps data files and are automatically scored based on factors such as distance and achieved speed. The flight recorder files are publicly available for downloading and analysis. Most of the task optimization for olc is site and weather specific, so any answer will only address a few general points. The igc olc world league is an international team gliding competition that runs in conjunction with the online contest for 19 weeks during the northern summer season. Flights which have been registered on a flight recorder are uploaded via an internet gateway and appear immediately in the ranking. Gliding involves engineless aircraft that move by use of raising air known as thermals, which are cause by the sun heating the ground which in turn heats the air above it. We need to establish a system that encourages pilots to hone these skills on daily basis across the country.
Buckland soaring award this is awarded to the highest scoring new zealand resident in the new zealand division of the online contest olc for the previous season. The winning pilots stand down for the following two. The online contest olc is a worldwide computer scored glider. Some competitions on the olc web site require fully certified igc flight recorder. Cambridge gpsnav 102025 owners, please read carefully. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and task forces. The aerokurieronline contest creates a worldwide overview of the crosscountry gliding scene.
About an hour into the flight we passed a blue lake in forbidding terrain see third picture. The aerokurieronline contest makes it possible for pilots from all over the world to compete with one another, and to see the results online just a short time after landing. Winner and aerokurier online contest champion 2006 of the olcclassic and faiolc is the participant who scores the highest number of points with six flights. To score your igc files generated by xcsoar on the olc, pilots should install xcsoar onto their pda. To maximize olc points, you need to understand the scoring formula. Over a few years this method of posting xc flights to document, analyze. It is run from germany by segelflugszene and sponsored by aerokurier. Online contest olc the worldwide leading database and scoring system for gliding, paragliding and hanggliding. Fai gliding commission igc world air sports federation. Contest area 36th fai world gliding championships 2021. Online contest gliding, a glider, hang glider, and paraglider soaring competition online creation, a software feature in muds that allows editing the world while.
Then, after flying with xcsoar, upload the xcsoar flight log file. It is very easy to enter and encourages crosscountry soaring. A group of ambitious developers has, therefore, started skylines, a portal that comes pretty close to the olc functionality and offers even more features. Rc olc would like to motivate rcgliderpilots to take on sportsmanlike rc soaring. While there are many different tools for downloading your logger, if you. Goals the goal of the aerokurier online contest olc is a timely scoring of crosscountry flights, free from the burden of flight declarations, to allow an easy and uptodate comparison of decentralised cross country flights. The goal of the olc has been to run a contest that is easy to enter and encourages cross country soaring. Online contest olc the worldwide leading database and scoring system for gliding, paragliding and. The online contest olc is a webbased soaring contest open to pilots worldwide. Both contest had participation by several sosa members. The club is maintained and operated by the voluntary efforts of its more than 170 members. On monday october 9th, the aerokurier online contest 2006 year will end.
To prepare for future soaring contests i attended the olc camp in nephi in junejuly of 2019. The aerokurier online contest olc, a worldwide decentralized soaring competition for glider. We are happy to announce that after a few years direct upload from seeyou to olc is possible again. Olc is a threeletter initialism tla that may refer to. Calling the contest and with it the participants intellectually lazy is quite arrogant. The prizedistribution will take place at the olcsymposium in gersfeldrhon germany on october 21, 2006. I want to start out with a disclaimer about the accuracy of this article, as this is very new to me. The complete architecture of the olc program and the user interface have been changed in olc generation 2.
Most of us the other 98% just dont get off on the cutthroat gaggles, scheduled grid times, crappy weather but are still forced to fly, obnoxious personalities few, but always annoying, cost and general inconvenience of entering a soaring contest. Sosa is proud to have been selected as the host of the 3rd fai panamerican gliding competition in 2019. Fai gliding commission igc fai hang gliding and paragliding commission civl fai microlight and paramotor commission cima fai rotorcraft commission cig fai skydiving commission isc fai education commission educ fai environmental commission envc fai medicopsychological commission cimp meetings. The olc also gives you the ability to download the flight file from a pilots flight and analyze it using flight. The soaring club of houston scoh is a nonprofit organization devoted to motorless flight. Region 3 soaring contest wed aug 20 no contest day. Online contest gliding, a glider, hang glider, and paraglider soaring competition.
In 2006 there are 2 new olc contests in addition to the classic olc that should increase the popularity of the contest and help promote soaring. For distance, it optimizes your six longest legs in sequence. The online contest is unique in that it is a decentralized contest. Soaring chess in the air a glider pilot learns to play. Online contest olc ncsa olc flights for contest year 2014. For anybody seriously interested in crosscountry xc soaring the olc has become a standard tool for comparison and analysis of what is happening in the worldwide scene of soaring. The olc aerokurier online contest has been growing rapidly in popularity around the world over the last few years. Welcome to the home page of the australian xcontest 2020.
The olc is operated by segelflugszene gemeinnutzige gmbh, a german notforprofit founded in 2000. More than 10,000 pilots worldwide participate in the olc and the numbers are growing every year. North carolina soaring association soaring the north carolina skies. Ssa olc breaks through 2,000,000 km in total claims. Ohio library council, professional association for librarians in ohio. For years prior to 2007 see the online olc records. The triangle size is the sum of the lengths of the legs of the biggest triangle calculated by the olc server the sum of the leg lenths must be larger than the sum of leg lenths of the minimum triangle of the wingspan class mintria.
To use this banner, please see the full instructions. The online contest olc submitted by fred hermanspann on tue, 03282017 19. Submit flights to the online contest olc the online contest olc is a worldwide computer scored glider contest. Soaring the sky is an aviation podcast all about the adventures of flying sailplanes and many other aircraft we love to fly. From a gliding perspective, the altmark region provides favourable meteorological conditions in both, maritime or continental influences. It is hosted by a team of volunteers through the german magazine aerokurier. The fai gliding commission igc conducts fais gliding activities, in particular world records and international competitions with the exception of glider aerobatics. Individual scoring is based on highest handicapped speed in a 2. First video taken from the 20 nephi soaring contest event. The olc gps record shows a peak climb rate in this thermal of 5.
Flight must be uploaded within 48 hours new 2011 rule no declarations, forms, turn points, witnesses or observers required. Yesterday, so called reggae king gillis bengtsson has broken the swedish free distance record. The flight is then posted on the olc web site which automatically. Region 3 soaring contest thu aug 21 fai day 4, sports day 3.
After many years dreaming about having a glider contest in nephi, utah we finally saw it. The olc has established itself worldwide as a useful portal for displaying and analyzing crosscountry flights. The optimizer is the same one used in the backside of the olc. The start of the new competition year will also mark the release of olc generation 2. The online contest olc is the worlds largest decentralized soaring contest and constitutes an information system for crosscountry flying which is updated on a daily basis. The online contest olc is the worlds largest decentralized soaring contest. In my experience olc is a path to contest flying for many new pilots and it makes them naturally becoming interested in going to regionals. The soaring society of americas web site is the largest collection of information in the world about soaring, also known as gliding.
End of season sunset warning for ssa olc participants. Carl ekdahl developed a little freeware program, that overcomes all the trouble with older. The aerokurier online contest olc, a worldwide decentralized soaring competition for glider, hang glider, and paraglider pilots. Seeyou competition a part of seeyou software and soaring spot our internet home for competition results provide the worldwide standard in tools for gliding competition organisers and pilots. Every flight trace can be viewed and the igc file can be downloaded. Logan 2011 a more sympathetic view soaring cafe august 2011. The club operates from its own airfield and owns two single and six twoplace sailplanes, plus. The on line contest is a free internet site that keeps track of glider flights made all over the world. This decentralised soaring competition is based on the ssaolc. Gps have replaced the traditional photo verification during the dawn of the new millennium. Gliding and seeyou software, at the heart of everything we do welcome to the naviter family. Pilots world wide can send their track logs to this website and get a score for it. A nice place to fly, but still a challenging mountain site. The olc is mostly a neat way to see your flight in comparison to the other pilots who flew.
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