jcarlyle wrote:
I finally managed to upload a file from my Cambridge Model 25 today,
after a 3 hour hassle. While I understand Tim Newport-Peace's comment
about the "real problem lying with Cambridge", the problems I was
having appear to be due solely to the very poor OLC interface design.

I made my initial cai file by downloading from the flight recorder
using data-cam under DOS, which also created the initial igc file. This
igc file isn't acceptable to OLC, so I then used their cai2igc routine
under DOS to create an acceptable igc file. I then opened this igc file
with SeeYou (which has the 04/03/2006 patch), and after many tries got
OLC to accept the flight.

My suspicion is that what finally worked was, just before claiming the
flight, I clicked the button at the very bottom of the OLC Flight Claim
page labeled "read old OLC-claim into form". Before clicking this
button there was absolutely no indication that there was a problem with
the potential claim, and after clicking the button there was no
indication that anything had changed. However, when the claim was made
after this button was pushed, the flight had all green symbols, whereas
when it hadn't been pushed the flights always had a red validation
symbol.

Yes, I believe the OLC site continues to use the file you uploaded the
first time (without any further security check) unless you upload the
file again as you describe.


In my opinion, the OLC people need to hire some professionals to
completely re-write their user interface. I might also suggest that
they simply accept valid cai files (checked with vali-cam), and process
these cai files themselves in any way they desire to get "valid" igc
files.

-John