Crosscountry.aero

I am delighted to announce the launch of a new cross-country soaring site:

http://www.crosscountry.aero

Here are a few of the site highlights:

Crosscountry.aero introduces evaluation of flights according to IGC
rules as well as OLC-type tasks. Flights are also evaluated for FAI
badge requirements.

One of the main site features is the ability to easily share flight
experiences with other pilots, but also with non-flying friends and
family. For every flight you upload, you can easily create an image
gallery or even write an entire article containing pictures and video.

We are also introducing the Pilot Ranking, a new flexible competition
format we hope will prove to be fun and popular.

There are also plenty of tools to track your soaring achievements, from
following your progress through the badges to viewing statistics on your
season performance.

I invite you to take a look at the site. Don't forget to upload your
flights!

Best wishes for the holidays,

Alexander Georgas
Editor - Crosscountry.aero

I was going to upload my flights, but I noticed you guys don't have any
Schweizers in the Sailplane list! Kind of surprising that I can't pick a
1-26 when you have 10 different configurations of a Ventus to choose
from...

Regards,

Daniel Sazhin


At 13:53 24 December 2012, Alexander Georgas wrote:
I am delighted to announce the launch of a new cross-country soaring
site:

http://www.crosscountry.aero

Here are a few of the site highlights:

Crosscountry.aero introduces evaluation of flights according to IGC
rules as well as OLC-type tasks. Flights are also evaluated for FAI
badge requirements.

One of the main site features is the ability to easily share flight
experiences with other pilots, but also with non-flying friends and
family. For every flight you upload, you can easily create an image
gallery or even write an entire article containing pictures and video.

We are also introducing the Pilot Ranking, a new flexible competition
format we hope will prove to be fun and popular.

There are also plenty of tools to track your soaring achievements, from
following your progress through the badges to viewing statistics on your
season performance.

I invite you to take a look at the site. Don't forget to upload your
flights!

Best wishes for the holidays,

Alexander Georgas
Editor - Crosscountry.aero

Apologies for the error. A testing glider list seems to have made its
way into production.

The list has now been corrected and you will find the 1-26 listed as
Schweizer SGS 1-26.

Best regards,

Alexander Georgas


Since

On 25/12/2012 15:05, Daniel Sazhin wrote:
I was going to upload my flights, but I noticed you guys don't have any
Schweizers in the Sailplane list! Kind of surprising that I can't pick a
1-26 when you have 10 different configurations of a Ventus to choose
from...

Regards,

Daniel Sazhin


At 13:53 24 December 2012, Alexander Georgas wrote:
I am delighted to announce the launch of a new cross-country soaring
site:

http://www.crosscountry.aero

Here are a few of the site highlights:

Crosscountry.aero introduces evaluation of flights according to IGC
rules as well as OLC-type tasks. Flights are also evaluated for FAI
badge requirements.

One of the main site features is the ability to easily share flight
experiences with other pilots, but also with non-flying friends and
family. For every flight you upload, you can easily create an image
gallery or even write an entire article containing pictures and video.

We are also introducing the Pilot Ranking, a new flexible competition
format we hope will prove to be fun and popular.

There are also plenty of tools to track your soaring achievements, from
following your progress through the badges to viewing statistics on your
season performance.

I invite you to take a look at the site. Don't forget to upload your
flights!

Best wishes for the holidays,

Alexander Georgas
Editor - Crosscountry.aero

I was going to upload my flights, but I noticed you guys don't have any
Schweizers in the Sailplane list! Kind of surprising that I can't pick a
1-26 when you have 10 different configurations of a Ventus to choose
from...

Regards,

Daniel Sazhin


At 13:53 24 December 2012, Alexander Georgas wrote:
I am delighted to announce the launch of a new cross-country soaring
site:

http://www.crosscountry.aero

Here are a few of the site highlights:

Crosscountry.aero introduces evaluation of flights according to IGC
rules as well as OLC-type tasks. Flights are also evaluated for FAI
badge requirements.

One of the main site features is the ability to easily share flight
experiences with other pilots, but also with non-flying friends and
family. For every flight you upload, you can easily create an image
gallery or even write an entire article containing pictures and video.

We are also introducing the Pilot Ranking, a new flexible competition
format we hope will prove to be fun and popular.

There are also plenty of tools to track your soaring achievements, from
following your progress through the badges to viewing statistics on your
season performance.

I invite you to take a look at the site. Don't forget to upload your
flights!

Best wishes for the holidays,

Alexander Georgas
Editor - Crosscountry.aero

Am Montag, 24. Dezember 2012 14:53:06 UTC+1 schrieb Alexander Georgas:
I am delighted to announce the launch of a new cross-country soaring site:



http://www.crosscountry.aero



Here are a few of the site highlights:



Crosscountry.aero introduces evaluation of flights according to IGC

rules as well as OLC-type tasks. Flights are also evaluated for FAI

badge requirements.



One of the main site features is the ability to easily share flight

experiences with other pilots, but also with non-flying friends and

family. For every flight you upload, you can easily create an image

gallery or even write an entire article containing pictures and video.



We are also introducing the Pilot Ranking, a new flexible competition

format we hope will prove to be fun and popular.



There are also plenty of tools to track your soaring achievements, from

following your progress through the badges to viewing statistics on your

season performance.



I invite you to take a look at the site. Don't forget to upload your

flights!



Best wishes for the holidays,



Alexander Georgas

Editor - Crosscountry.aero

What is the advantage compared to other platforms like the OLC or SkyLines?

On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 8:36:37 AM UTC-5, Tobias Bieniek wrote:

What is the advantage compared to other platforms like the OLC or SkyLines?

Why is it a good thing to have flights scattered across multiple sites?

It is not really a good thing!

The main point here is that different sites offer different things. If
we could take away the fragmentation of flight data, this would be good
for all parties. I hope that the various sites can eventually come to an
agreement to automatically cross-post flight data from pilots who
consent to do so.

Best regards,

Alexander Georgas


On 25/12/2012 20:51, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 8:36:37 AM UTC-5, Tobias Bieniek wrote:

What is the advantage compared to other platforms like the OLC or SkyLines?

Why is it a good thing to have flights scattered across multiple sites?

On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 2:25:56 PM UTC-5, Alexander Georgas wrote:
I hope that the various sites can eventually come to an

agreement to automatically cross-post flight data from pilots who

consent to do so.

What about a site that acts as a front end to automatically post a flight to all of the relevant sites?

Putting aside the fragmentation problem, I applaud your effort to innovate. Your site looks good and I like your general idea.

From a technical standpoint, this is easy to do. All that is required
is the consent of the person submitting the log file and some way to
identify their account in the different sites.

The issue of consent is important here. One cannot just go to SkyLines,
pull all the log files and then re-publish them on another site without
the original file contributor's permission.

There must be explicit consent from the contributing pilot to publish
flights on other sites.

In other words all that is needed for this to happen is agreement
between sites, from individual pilots and a small bit of work to make it
happen.



On 25/12/2012 21:52, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 2:25:56 PM UTC-5, Alexander Georgas wrote:
I hope that the various sites can eventually come to an

agreement to automatically cross-post flight data from pilots who

consent to do so.

What about a site that acts as a front end to automatically post a flight to all of the relevant sites?

Putting aside the fragmentation problem, I applaud your effort to innovate. Your site looks good and I like your general idea.

On 12/25/2012 11:25 AM, Alexander Georgas wrote:
I hope that the various sites can eventually come to an agreement to
automatically cross-post flight data from pilots who consent to do so.

I think that is an excellent goal! I'm encouraged to see new sites
offering additional features, but do not want to fragment the flight
records.

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