Sailplane Grand Prix US Florida 2018

On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 10:04:01 AM UTC-7, Duster wrote:
SGP scheduled to begin first race day today launch 1:15est. Other than the SGP website, not sure where to get current updates.

http://www.sgp.aero/usa2018/race-cov...ontestID=31089

Looks competitive: 7 seconds between 1st and 2nd, first 6 places separated by less than a minute and a half.

Posted Weather animation videos of RACE days 1-4 GOES-16 vis 0.5km imagery, IGC and IGC tracks of winners each day. Sat photos update every 5 mins, tracks every 20 secs. Beautiful example showing use of cloud streets.

On 03-30 RACE 4, I've added a vis and RADAR overlayed image showing how the day deteriorates.

Displays fine on VLC and IOS 11 players. You can download individual mp4 files in the Dropbox folder from the ... menu:

bit.ly/SGPUSA2018WeatherVideos

If you are interested in playing these in IDV, the bundled images and config are in the IDV folder *.zidv. Note that the LOCATION files for the TP plots need to be loaded separately. Track igc data needs to be converted with John Bird's python script. Color tables also needed to be loaded.

I'll add the other source config data files and notes if anyone is interested in the IDV folder.

Walt Rogers WX

We are using the Fly Event trackers and we are having a little difficulty getting tracks to show on SGP website. Should have it fixed today. We will use this service for 18 Meter Nationals. I’ll turn my phone on today.. Didn’t want 2 ZO show on tracking page yesterday.

Since I was a few points out of second, I tried a breakaway from the group early. There was sun on the ground at the first turnpoint and I was trying to get ahead on the short task day. Got low a couple of times but kept fighting. In the end I didn’t have final glide to last TP and Home. Some sun on ground heading to Seminole. Was going to try and get one climb to get to last TP but didn’t get a nibble. Good plan but the weather didn’t support it well enough. Today is going to be good so,,,,,, Thanks for all the support for Team ZOooooooo!!! Rich

Updated video for RACE day 5:

bit.ly/SGPUSA2018WeatherVideos

Walt WX

On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 1:04:01 PM UTC-4, Duster wrote:
SGP scheduled to begin first race day today launch 1:15est. Other than the SGP website, not sure where to get current updates.

http://www.sgp.aero/usa2018/race-cov...ontestID=31089

Follow the leaders today @
https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=...23573f7763d #

Expect Task open 13:00 EDT

CD

On Sunday, 1 April 2018 09:51:12 UTC-6, John Godfrey (QT) wrote:
On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 1:04:01 PM UTC-4, Duster wrote:
SGP scheduled to begin first race day today launch 1:15est. Other than the SGP website, not sure where to get current updates.

http://www.sgp.aero/usa2018/race-cov...ontestID=31089

Follow the leaders today @
https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=...23573f7763d #

Expect Task open 13:00 EDT

CD

Kudos to John Godfrey and others at the FL SGP in trying out the FlyMaster trackers and tracking system. The hang gliding folks 13 miles north of Seminole have a bunch of these trackers onsite for the upcoming Nationals and John, I am sure many others chipped in, took the initiative to research what it would take to perform a test to see how they worked for gliding competitions.

From what I saw it worked quite well. Yes there were some data drop outs and the task was not available but those are issues that are being addressed.. From lets try this to having it working for the top 6 gliders in a couple of days is awesome!

Great job everyone and lets see where this may lead. Tracking abilities, specifically real time, is not easy or cheap to implement.

On Sunday, April 1, 2018 at 4:35:56 PM UTC-4, Ron Gleason wrote:
On Sunday, 1 April 2018 09:51:12 UTC-6, John Godfrey (QT) wrote:
On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 1:04:01 PM UTC-4, Duster wrote:
SGP scheduled to begin first race day today launch 1:15est. Other than the SGP website, not sure where to get current updates.

http://www.sgp.aero/usa2018/race-cov...ontestID=31089

Follow the leaders today @
https://lt.flymaster.net/bs.php?grp=...23573f7763d #

Expect Task open 13:00 EDT

CD

Kudos to John Godfrey and others at the FL SGP in trying out the FlyMaster trackers and tracking system. The hang gliding folks 13 miles north of Seminole have a bunch of these trackers onsite for the upcoming Nationals and John, I am sure many others chipped in, took the initiative to research what it would take to perform a test to see how they worked for gliding competitions.

From what I saw it worked quite well. Yes there were some data drop outs and the task was not available but those are issues that are being addressed. From lets try this to having it working for the top 6 gliders in a couple of days is awesome!

Great job everyone and lets see where this may lead. Tracking abilities, specifically real time, is not easy or cheap to implement.

Unfortunately Airtribune (the main tracking site I hoped to use) had an unexpected server farm failure that took their vendor some time to fix. So no task or other display on this test. Standby for more.

QT