Doug,

I'm not a web expert, but this assertion seems incorrect. Certainly you
can e-mail a binary cai file and it will still be valid upon receipt.
It can also be sent via FTP, and I guarantee that this process would
result in a valid binary file. And a FTP transfer could be easily built
into the OLC submission process if OLC chose to do so.

Sounds to me like OLC programmers simply don't want to go to the effort
of figuring out how to handle cai files, and so are putting what should
be their problem on all of us Cambridge users.

-John

Doug Haluza wrote:
Actually, it is not possible for OLC to process the CAI binary because
it cannot be uploaded via the web form. The HTTP transfer used to
upload the IGC files will not accept the non ANSI characters in the
Cambridge CAI binary file. This is why the binary data needs to be
converted and appended to the IGC file as text.