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I thought the website, updates and video were good. Does anyone know
the number of spectators/day?

My hope is someone makes a slick DVD of the contest.

Chip F

Yes, maybe something similar to the excellent footage in " Windborne".
Craig

chipsoars wrote:
I thought the website, updates and video were good. Does anyone know
the number of spectators/day?

My hope is someone makes a slick DVD of the contest.

Chip F

The website was nice but what I missed was the ability to follow the
whole thing online more or less in realtime as you could in St. Auban.
Besides the online tracking they had a great Dynamic Flight
Visualization in St. Auban allowing you to compare who did what when
and the consequences of it - great learning tool :-). I guess in
Omarama they had this new real time tracking system from the same
company that does this for the round the world sail boat races but no
online access, only for paying visitors on site... Not having that
availalable online was a step backwards fro me...

Markus

You can download the igc files from each day and achieve the same result
with Seeyou.
True it was after the racing has finished but still possible. The St Auban
Grand Prix coverage was delayed by 15mins due to tech issues etc. The
Omarama one was done live onto the big screen with video footage from the
helicopters and cockpit cams edited as they went along. Just like the
Americas cup racing is done. They even had a couple of guys in front of the
big screen giving a running commentry as well. The actual numbers to come to
the event where dissapointing but the big thing is to show a package of all
the infomation is possible which is a saleable item to major networks. Then
with TV comes sponsors and exposure.


Paul
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oups.com...
The website was nice but what I missed was the ability to follow the
whole thing online more or less in realtime as you could in St. Auban.
Besides the online tracking they had a great Dynamic Flight
Visualization in St. Auban allowing you to compare who did what when
and the consequences of it - great learning tool :-). I guess in
Omarama they had this new real time tracking system from the same
company that does this for the round the world sail boat races but no
online access, only for paying visitors on site... Not having that
availalable online was a step backwards fro me...

Markus

Yes, maybe something similar to the excellent footage in " Windborne".
Craig

The images are way in advance of what was possible when Windborne was shot.

The camera used for the aerial shots is very nice. Zoom from cockpit filling
the frame to several kilometers out. Steady as a rock.

The graphics are good enough that you could fool the uninitiated into
believing it was real video footage. Watching Uli slip through a saddle
between Timaru Creek and The Dingle was magic. No gliders going through
the side of a hill like you get with less accurate 3D stuff.

The gliders had three cameras in each, one on the pilot, one looking
along the wing, and one over the shoulder. We watched real time over Ben's
shoulder as he landed on a strip in the Hunter valley.

The footage I saw was amazing, and there's plenty more I didn't see.


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"chipsoars" wrote:

I thought the website, updates and video were good. Does anyone know
the number of spectators/day?

I'd esrtimate maybe four hundred on Saturday, and half that numberr on
Sunday. Perhaps we'll hear the actual ticket numbers in time.


My hope is someone makes a slick DVD of the contest.

You can count on that. More than that, I think it would make a great
show for broadcast TV.

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