OLC and Cambridge 10/20/25 support ending

I was an early (and remain a) strong supporter of the OLC - gave the
first OLC presentation to the Seattle Glider Council (SGC) - for
stimulating growth in cross-country soaring. Check-out the increase
in SGC participation over the life of the OLC!

As a Cambridge 20 user, I lament the end of OLC support. However, I
do not want to replace my Cambridge 20 - L-NAV - PDA with Glide
Navigator II installation.

Getting ready to make my wish list for Santa and would appreciate
recommendations for a back-up system that will likely remain
compatible with the OLC system.

Thanks in advance.

Roy,
I've been using XCSoar running on my Android phone. It works great for
OLC, and Santa will be happy beacuse it's free (if you have an Android
device).

Somebody mentioned on here that OLC won't score an XC Soar generated IGC
file for "OLC League" (I think). I'm not sure about this because I've
never tried it. But for logging flight, posting to OLC, and getting
scored it works great.

--Stefan

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:59:54 -0600, Roy Clark, "B6"
wrote:

I was an early (and remain a) strong supporter of the OLC - gave the
first OLC presentation to the Seattle Glider Council (SGC) - for
stimulating growth in cross-country soaring. Check-out the increase
in SGC participation over the life of the OLC!

As a Cambridge 20 user, I lament the end of OLC support. However, I
do not want to replace my Cambridge 20 - L-NAV - PDA with Glide
Navigator II installation.

Getting ready to make my wish list for Santa and would appreciate
recommendations for a back-up system that will likely remain
compatible with the OLC system.

Thanks in advance.



--
Stefan Murry

On Dec 3, 10:59*am, "Roy Clark, \"B6\"" wrote:
I was an early (and remain a) strong supporter of the OLC - gave the
first OLC presentation to the Seattle Glider Council (SGC) *- *for
stimulating growth in cross-country soaring. *Check-out the increase
in SGC participation over the life of the OLC!

As a Cambridge 20 user, I lament the end of OLC support. *However, I
do not want to replace my Cambridge 20 - L-NAV - PDA with Glide
Navigator II installation.

Getting ready to make my wish list for Santa and would appreciate
recommendations for a back-up system that will likely remain
compatible with the OLC system.

Thanks in advance.

The stand-alone flywithce recorder is very small and very inexpensive,
and it works for OLC.

On Dec 3, 12:45*pm, Bob wrote:
On Dec 3, 10:59*am, "Roy Clark, \"B6\"" wrote:

I was an early (and remain a) strong supporter of the OLC - gave the
first OLC presentation to the Seattle Glider Council (SGC) *- *for
stimulating growth in cross-country soaring. *Check-out the increase
in SGC participation over the life of the OLC!

As a Cambridge 20 user, I lament the end of OLC support. *However, I
do not want to replace my Cambridge 20 - L-NAV - PDA with Glide
Navigator II installation.

Getting ready to make my wish list for Santa and would appreciate
recommendations for a back-up system that will likely remain
compatible with the OLC system.

Thanks in advance.

The stand-alone flywithce recorder is very small and very inexpensive,
and it works for OLC.

I believe just about every flight computer software generates an OLC
compatible IGC file, unless you fly a motorglider and need ENL
(workaround is to claim as pure glider with the same handicap
instead...)

Ramy

On Dec 3, 11:08*pm, Ramy wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:45*pm, Bob wrote:





On Dec 3, 10:59*am, "Roy Clark, \"B6\"" wrote:

I was an early (and remain a) strong supporter of the OLC - gave the
first OLC presentation to the Seattle Glider Council (SGC) *- *for
stimulating growth in cross-country soaring. *Check-out the increase
in SGC participation over the life of the OLC!

As a Cambridge 20 user, I lament the end of OLC support. *However, I
do not want to replace my Cambridge 20 - L-NAV - PDA with Glide
Navigator II installation.

Getting ready to make my wish list for Santa and would appreciate
recommendations for a back-up system that will likely remain
compatible with the OLC system.

Thanks in advance.

The stand-alone flywithce recorder is very small and very inexpensive,
and it works for OLC.

I believe just about every flight computer software generates an OLC
compatible IGC file, unless you fly a motorglider and need ENL
(workaround is to claim as pure glider with the same handicap
instead...)

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hi Roy
I think the power flarm is an igc approved logger???????????? 4Q

On Dec 3, 12:59*pm, "Roy Clark, \"B6\"" wrote:
I was an early (and remain a) strong supporter of the OLC - gave the
first OLC presentation to the Seattle Glider Council (SGC) *- *for
stimulating growth in cross-country soaring. *Check-out the increase
in SGC participation over the life of the OLC!

As a Cambridge 20 user, I lament the end of OLC support. *However, I
do not want to replace my Cambridge 20 - L-NAV - PDA with Glide
Navigator II installation.

Getting ready to make my wish list for Santa and would appreciate
recommendations for a back-up system that will likely remain
compatible with the OLC system.

Thanks in advance.

Check out SoarPilot (http://soaringpilot.org/). It's free and has
known OLC support/registration. It runs natively on any Palm OS
product (best is a Tungsten T/Magellan GPS Companion combination), but
will run on any Windows PDA using StyleTap. Best of all it is free
and is very well supported.

Regards,

Frank (TA)

I borrowed a Nano as a backup for Uvalde Glide and was impressed with
its simple operation. The Colibri II seems to also be a good option,
though neither are "cheap". The Colibri is currently on sale as they
clear stock. Any of these should be nearly a direct replacement for
the LX20. Inexpensive alternatives are as mentioned above - most of
the current PDA software will generate files acceptable for IGC (GNII
is an exception) and all you need is the GPS source, which you already
have with the LX20.

Cheers,

Derek

Thanks to all who have or still will reply.

I'm not interested is changing my current cell phone nor my current
Cambridge 20 - L-Nav - Ipaq running GN II software system.

The Nano seems the easiest of the options so far.

On Dec 4, 2:53*pm, "Roy Clark, \"B6\"" wrote:
Thanks to all who have or still will reply.

I'm not interested is changing my current cell phone nor my current
Cambridge 20 - L-Nav - Ipaq running GN II software system.

The Nano seems the easiest of the options so far.

if all you need is a logger to make something to upload to the OLC
then you should go with the FlywithCE. Easy on/off button and that is
all there is to the operation. $120 or so through various vendors.
Nano will come in handy though if you want to go for a world record,
which your Cambridge cannot do. Otherwise you could find something
more productive to do with the extra $400

On Dec 3, 11:59*am, "Roy Clark, \"B6\"" wrote:

As a Cambridge 20 user, I lament the end of OLC support. *However, I
do not want to replace my Cambridge 20 - L-NAV - PDA with Glide
Navigator II installation.

What does "end of OLC support" mean? Now or in the near future? I
show at http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/OLC-recorder.pdf that the
CAI20 is approved.

This seems odd that OLC doesn't like the CAI20 because the IGC
approved list shows the CAI20 as approved for "Badges (all)" which is
defined as,

"Badges (all) - This applies to types of Recorders that do not fulfil
the Specification in some areas at the time of approval. However, it
has been decided that they may be given an approval that excludes
World Record flights but includes all IGC/FAI Badges and Distance
Diplomas."

So the CAI20 isn't quite as good as an EW Microrecoder, LX Nano or a
CAI 302 (each is approved for "All Flights") but you aren't trying for
a world record so what gives with OLC?

Stupid question - Are you sure you are submitting the correct IGC file
and not a GNII log file? All I have ever done in the past is manually
download the CAI IGC file to my PC (actually done via GNII) and then
manually upload to OLC (direct claim). See
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...eldung_eng.pdf for
details.

Good luck.

- John