"datamining" thousands of IGC files

I have an intern currently working on a slightly different project for US flights in an effort to isolate for potential cloud flying incedents over thousands of competition flights. It has been very interesting so far. More later. He did create a batch method for adding large sets of flights (but only a few dozen at a time). Not sure what dbase he is using.

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On Monday, March 5, 2012 12:26:07 PM UTC-5, Tibor wrote:
Hi,

are there any open/free tools to datamine on database of many IGC files?

There is a threat that the free airspace for gliding in Slovakia is going to be significantly restricted. We need tools which help prepare arguments about airspace usage and frequency of our flights.

If I was starting from scratch I would probably try to import all the flights into a GIS database (PostGIS) and do the data cleaning and queries there. Does anybody have experience with this?

Thanks for you help,
Tibor Arpas