The Mifflin U.S. 15-meter nationals and Sports class regional SPOT tracking maps are now up and available to anyone with a inet connection. The links a


The tracking page URL's a
Google Maps - http://www.hawketracking.org/mifflin/files/tracking.htm
Google Maps Large - http://www.hawketracking.org/mifflin...ckinglarge.htm
Mobile - http://www.hawketracking.org/mifflin/files/mobile.htm
Google Earth KML - http://www.hawketracking.org/mifflin/files/tracking.kml

Just as an interesting factoid - 25 of the 37 15-meter competitors (67%), and 7 of the 12 Sports class competitors (58%) are SPOT equipped. Pretty good considering we started from scratch only a few years ago. Thierry Thys' fatal crash in August 2009 was the impetus for the formation of the SSA's Track a Sailplane' page that now has approximately 450 SPOT devices registered by pilots. Theirry's death was a real tragedy (and a SPOT device would probably not have helped him), but at least it prompted us as an organization to do something significant in it's wake.

Full disclosu Mark Hawkins and I are partners in Hawke Tracking LLC which sells SPOT tracking map services to soaring contests and other events for ridiculously low prices. At the rate we are going, I expect to have enough to buy my Arcus (winglet) anytime now ;-).


Regards,

Frank(TA)