SSA-OLC Update

Lots of great stuff happening on the OLC, including the SSA-OLC in the
US. We have had over 600,000 km claimed so far, and the soaring season
is just beginning in most of the US! Sixteen pilots have already posted
flights over 1000km.

The Ridge Soaring Irregulars in PA and Aero Club Albatross in NJ took
the early lead because the ridge season is best early in the OLC year,
but Albuquerque Soaring in NM is quickly catching up.

The OLC league is in it's 5th round, with 55 US clubs scoring so far in
the SSA-OLC League. FAI is sponsoring the IGC-OLC World League, and
Albuquerque Soaring and Black Forest Soaring are the top two clubs in
the world!

For more info:

SSA-OLC:

http://www.ssa.org/members/contestreports/OLC.htm

IGC-OLC World League:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/igcolcwl2006

It's easy to participate, all you need is a flight logger compatible
with the OLC. All IGC approved loggers are compatible for all claims,
and many non approved loggers are suitable for the OLC Classic. If you
have trouble processing your claims, US pilots cab send an email to
olcatssadotorg for help (or helpatonlinecontestdotorg for all
other countries).

I am still unable to submit files via the web interface. The problem
is not with the file!!! The file passes all validity checks!!!

The problem began in the 10th or 11th month of last year when the
"Take-Off" location was added to the submission form.

Last year the OLC was a lot of fun. This year, it's a Pain in the A**!
I have to call around, find someone with SeeYou, email them my file,
along with some personal information, or email the OLC folks and ask
them to fix the entry. (The OLC folks are great, I'm now on a first
name basis with their help line). You would think they would get tired
of manually fixing all the grayed down entries. The problem could
easily be in my end, but I get consistent behavior from Netscape,
Mozilla, and IE browsers.

I liked the OLC the way it was, when it actually worked. (for me)

Sincerely,
David Walsh


Doug Haluza wrote:
Lots of great stuff happening on the OLC, including the SSA-OLC in the
US. We have had over 600,000 km claimed so far, and the soaring season
is just beginning in most of the US! Sixteen pilots have already posted
flights over 1000km.

The Ridge Soaring Irregulars in PA and Aero Club Albatross in NJ took
the early lead because the ridge season is best early in the OLC year,
but Albuquerque Soaring in NM is quickly catching up.

The OLC league is in it's 5th round, with 55 US clubs scoring so far in
the SSA-OLC League. FAI is sponsoring the IGC-OLC World League, and
Albuquerque Soaring and Black Forest Soaring are the top two clubs in
the world!

For more info:

SSA-OLC:

http://www.ssa.org/members/contestreports/OLC.htm

IGC-OLC World League:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/igcolcwl2006

It's easy to participate, all you need is a flight logger compatible
with the OLC. All IGC approved loggers are compatible for all claims,
and many non approved loggers are suitable for the OLC Classic. If you
have trouble processing your claims, US pilots cab send an email to
olcatssadotorg for help (or helpatonlinecontestdotorg for all
other countries).

You're not alone. 5-27 results for the US currently have red marks for
four of the five top flight claims!

But I haven't seen the same issue you're having. Using an older (2.82)
version of SeeYou, I've never been able to directly submit flights, so
have always used the web interface. I use SeeYou to prepare the .olc file,
then upload that through the web, and it seems to work reliably. It pulls
the phoney .igc file from my Cambridge automatically. I thought the .olc
file was just a typing convenience, maybe there's more to it than that.

-Dave



David Walsh wrote:
I am still unable to submit files via the web interface. The problem
is not with the file!!! The file passes all validity checks!!!

The problem began in the 10th or 11th month of last year when the
"Take-Off" location was added to the submission form.

Last year the OLC was a lot of fun. This year, it's a Pain in the A**!
I have to call around, find someone with SeeYou, email them my file,
along with some personal information, or email the OLC folks and ask
them to fix the entry. (The OLC folks are great, I'm now on a first
name basis with their help line). You would think they would get tired
of manually fixing all the grayed down entries. The problem could
easily be in my end, but I get consistent behavior from Netscape,
Mozilla, and IE browsers.

I liked the OLC the way it was, when it actually worked. (for me)

Sincerely,
David Walsh


Doug Haluza wrote:
Lots of great stuff happening on the OLC, including the SSA-OLC in the
US. We have had over 600,000 km claimed so far, and the soaring season
is just beginning in most of the US! Sixteen pilots have already posted
flights over 1000km.

The Ridge Soaring Irregulars in PA and Aero Club Albatross in NJ took
the early lead because the ridge season is best early in the OLC year,
but Albuquerque Soaring in NM is quickly catching up.

The OLC league is in it's 5th round, with 55 US clubs scoring so far in
the SSA-OLC League. FAI is sponsoring the IGC-OLC World League, and
Albuquerque Soaring and Black Forest Soaring are the top two clubs in
the world!

For more info:

SSA-OLC:

http://www.ssa.org/members/contestreports/OLC.htm

IGC-OLC World League:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/igcolcwl2006

It's easy to participate, all you need is a flight logger compatible
with the OLC. All IGC approved loggers are compatible for all claims,
and many non approved loggers are suitable for the OLC Classic. If you
have trouble processing your claims, US pilots cab send an email to
olcatssadotorg for help (or helpatonlinecontestdotorg for all
other countries).

The first two red marks from 5/27 are the C302 issue described in my
last post. The third is an ENL flag that does not affect scoring. The
fourth is from a WinPilot log, and WinPilot is not approved for OLC
yet.

P.S. If you are a WinPilot user who wants to post your WinPilot logs to
the OLC Classic, you should contact WinPilot and let them know it is
important to you. OLC wants WinPilot to become a sponsor before they
will add them to the approved logger list, and make the necessary
software changes to accept WinPilot logs. Since OLC does not charge
users directly, they depend on the support of the vendor community. So
we need to let our vendors know that we want them to support the OLC.

P.P.S. You can still claim flights directly with SeeYou v2.82 if you
apply the OLC2006 patch from their web site (if you have an older 2.x
version, you must upgrade to v2.82 first). For Cambridge GPS-NAV Model
10/20/25 users, this older version will use the Windows DLL, and not
the DOS software to convert the *.CAI to *.IGC, so it will not work all
the time. You really should consider upgrading to v3.5 to avoid the
hassel of manually converting your *.CAI to *.IGC.

"Doug Haluza" wrote in message
oups.com:
snip

P.S. If you are a WinPilot user who wants to post your WinPilot logs to
the OLC Classic, you should contact WinPilot and let them know it is
important to you. OLC wants WinPilot to become a sponsor before they
will add them to the approved logger list, and make the necessary
software changes to accept WinPilot logs.





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