IGC Google Earth Replay

On Dec 2, 12:47 pm, John Galloway wrote:
Thinking of it as a flight terrain viewer rather than
a flight simulator three things would enhance it for
me:

A side map showing current location.


Thanks Tobi, fabulous!

John

Opened IGC GE and then opened the file with SeeYou file in Route mode
and "futzed" with the replay speeds to get everything synced and then
let them run. Had to continuosly sync using the GE time control but
that was easy. The 2 applications kept time drifting, Google seems to
have some small realtime issues.

Worked like a charm though and is a great tool for learning the
terrain in a area. I am headed for Sondrio in March and this helps me
to learn the extended local terrain. I downloaded IGC files from the
OLC for the Sondrio area. With SeeYou, GE and a chart I am statring to
familarize myself with the area, including the "hot" thermal spots!

Bob
Thanks again Tobi!

Hey now that's pretty cool!

I see it's in early beta release (version 0.2). I hope future releases
will smooth the heading (it jumps while turning/thermaling), and maybe
add a PDA imitation in the left panel showing the overhead macro view.

And maybe some bored programmer out there can do a version that
integrates with SeeYou, to do synchronized playback. That would look
pretty cool on my two-headed lean mean XP machine!

~ted/2NO

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

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

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"
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"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

On Dec 1, 5:53 pm, "Ray Roberts" wrote:
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"
.
Ray,

Thanks for the directions and kind words. For those interested in
flying the ridge and wave north or Salt Lake City, Utah I would
recommend looking at flights on OLC from:

December 15th, 2006 This was a flight that shows the speed potential
of the ridge. I actually flew it conservatively and without water. A
write up can be found in the UTSoar group on Yahoo Groups.

The October 3rd, 2007 flight for the full extent of the ridge.

November 17th, 2007 flight of three gliders on ridge and wave to
17,999 feet. (Fun to watch in programs that let you put multiple
flights on same trace)

Also you can search the 2007 flights of Lynn Alley for several flights
in the wave.

Again thank to Tobias for providing such a great program that allow
others to really get a better idea of the terrain. It is immensely
helpful in sites where mountain flying is common.

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

On Nov 28, 12:32 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 :-)

Tobi,

This is an absolutely brilliant add-on! Thanks so much for making it
available. Please keep us posted on upgrades.

Larry