IGC Google Earth Replay

Thanks this is one of the best additions for Google Earth and
soaring. I look forward to the fine tuning to add bank angle to the
turns and higher replay speed. At 10x my October 3rd ridge flight
still takes nearly and hour to watch. It was by far the closest I can
let anyone see what I see in flight.

bank angle is not possible with the active GE Version, may be later.
But I will work on higher speed, better control and enhanced
analytics.

"tobi" wrote in message
...

Thanks this is one of the best additions for Google Earth and
soaring. I look forward to the fine tuning to add bank angle to the
turns and higher replay speed. At 10x my October 3rd ridge flight
still takes nearly and hour to watch. It was by far the closest I can
let anyone see what I see in flight.

bank angle is not possible with the active GE Version, may be later.
But I will work on higher speed, better control and enhanced
analytics.


It's a wonderful tool. I love it. Tobi you deserve a huge round of
applause for this.

However, I have noticed that while my Volkslogger files work fine, some IGC
files from OLC won't play. This may be what is causing problems for others.
There's an error message in German but I can't cut and paste it into
babelfish.

Bill D

GREAT tool.
However i would also love to have a much more smoothed track.

Additionally a even faster playback rate (up to 100x?) would be welcome.

Thanks for this great piece of software!

CU
Markus

At 20:24 29 November 2007, Bill Daniels wrote:

'tobi' wrote in message
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com...

Thanks this is one of the best additions for Google
Earth and
soaring. I look forward to the fine tuning to add
bank angle to the
turns and higher replay speed. At 10x my October
3rd ridge flight
still takes nearly and hour to watch. It was by far
the closest I can
let anyone see what I see in flight.

bank angle is not possible with the active GE Version,
may be later.
But I will work on higher speed, better control and
enhanced
analytics.


It's a wonderful tool. I love it. Tobi you deserve
a huge round of
applause for this.

However, I have noticed that while my Volkslogger files
work fine, some IGC
files from OLC won't play. This may be what is causing
problems for others.
There's an error message in German but I can't cut
and paste it into
babelfish.

Bill D


I agree. This is an excellent utility. Many thanks
for making it available.

I don't think that it needs bank angle - it isn't a
flight simulator with an instrument panel in the screen
and the horizontal view of the scenery when turning
is fine.

However, similarly to what Bill says, most of my IGC
files won't play and I get what is probably the same
error message in German saying something about 'Vermuthlich
keine igc-Datei'. What does that signify?

John Galloway

Tim Taylor wrote:
On Nov 28, 10:41 pm, "
wrote:
On Nov 28, 5:15 pm, "
wrote:



On Nov 28, 2:18 pm, tobi wrote:
sorry, I should have mentioned, you need Google Earth 4.2 and the
current .NET installed
It falls over with an immediate null reference exception on Windows XP
SP2 on my ThinkPad. Anybody want the stack trace? email me.
No cigar.
I've got Google Earth 4.2 and the .NET 3.0 Framework with the very
latest updates. When you say the current .NET exactly what version and
update are you running against? On what OS platform? I'm on XP SP2 at
the very latest public release updates.
Anybody else got this to run?
Darryl
BTW a quick check with the debugger showed this apparently uses .NET
2.0, so you don't need to waste time downloading the NET 3.0
bloatware. I've emailed Tobi the debug information.

Darryl

I did a Google search
for
V2.0.50727 and went to the
Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)
page.

I downloaded the 2.0 version and installed it and the program then ran
even though my system was showing up to date on system checks.


Usually the .NET packages are shown as optional packages, so the automated
checking won't load them.

Mine works fine on a Lenovo (post ThinkPad type of laptop). Don't
understand the comments about jerkiness in the thermals, it's about
as smooth as you can reasonably expect. I use 4 second gps updates,
longer times probably look a lot worse.

The only funny item I've seen is the two demo files that came with the
software won't run, they error out immediately. Anybody else see that?

Other than that, great job, it's a lot of fun.

Dave

Mine works fine on a Lenovo (post ThinkPad type of laptop). Don't
understand the comments about jerkiness in the thermals, it's about
as smooth as you can reasonably expect. I use 4 second gps updates,
longer times probably look a lot worse.

The only funny item I've seen is the two demo files that came with the
software won't run, they error out immediately. Anybody else see that?

Other than that, great job, it's a lot of fun.

Dave

there is a new Build on the download page. It should solve any trouble
with unreadable igc-files (It's hard for me to test, since local
culture settings caused the problems, thanks to Mark for assistance)

That is fun.

Thank you.

Mike


On Nov 30, 7:37 pm, tobi wrote:
Mine works fine on a Lenovo (post ThinkPad type of laptop). Don't
understand the comments about jerkiness in the thermals, it's about
as smooth as you can reasonably expect. I use 4 second gps updates,
longer times probably look a lot worse.

The only funny item I've seen is the two demo files that came with the
software won't run, they error out immediately. Anybody else see that?

Other than that, great job, it's a lot of fun.

Dave

there is a new Build on the download page. It should solve any trouble
with unreadable igc-files (It's hard for me to test, since local
culture settings caused the problems, thanks to Mark for assistance)

tobi wrote:
Mine works fine on a Lenovo (post ThinkPad type of laptop). Don't
understand the comments about jerkiness in the thermals, it's about
as smooth as you can reasonably expect. I use 4 second gps updates,
longer times probably look a lot worse.

The only funny item I've seen is the two demo files that came with the
software won't run, they error out immediately. Anybody else see that?

Other than that, great job, it's a lot of fun.

Dave

there is a new Build on the download page. It should solve any trouble
with unreadable igc-files (It's hard for me to test, since local
culture settings caused the problems, thanks to Mark for assistance)

Tobi,

The new build fixed the unreadable file problem I was seeing. Worked
fine yesterday. But this morning, the perspective view from GE is
many thousands of feet too high. Both the GE eye altitude, and the
height in meters in the lower left are correct, but the view is wrong.
Using XP, SP2, .NET 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 loaded. Rebooting didn't fix.
Weird.

Dave

The new build fixed the unreadable file problem I was seeing. Worked
fine yesterday. But this morning, the perspective view from GE is
many thousands of feet too high. Both the GE eye altitude, and the
height in meters in the lower left are correct, but the view is wrong.
Using XP, SP2, .NET 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 loaded. Rebooting didn't fix.
Weird.

Dave,
most probably terrain is switched of (Google Layers Tab) or altitude
exaggeration under tools-options-3D is not set to 1.
Tobias

For info, Tim's spectacular October 3 ridge flight can be downloaded from
the onlinecontest.org website. Look for Tim Taylor under the Competitors
tab, then select the 2007 option under the 2008 tab. Tim's Oct 3 flight is
listed there because it was part of the 2007 competition. Click on the "i"
(information) button, then select the .igc file for downloading, and follow
the on-screen instructions to save the file to your computer. Replaying this
file puts you right in Tim's cockpit, up close and personal with those
awsome Utah mountains!
Wonderful!
Ray Roberts
Ventus 2cM, "Q"
..

"Tim Taylor" wrote in message
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On Nov 28, 1:32 pm, wrote:
may be someone is interested in a small programm
(http://ywtw.de/igcsim.html
) that allows you to replay IGC-files in Google Earth. It's a replay,
without use of kml, best for flights in the mountains :-)

Thanks this is one of the best additions for Google Earth and
soaring. I look forward to the fine tuning to add bank angle to the
turns and higher replay speed. At 10x my October 3rd ridge flight
still takes nearly and hour to watch. It was by far the closest I can
let anyone see what I see in flight.

Tim