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On Monday, April 5, 2021 at 4:22:40 PM UTC-4, Moshe Braner wrote:
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 5:02:48 PM UTC-5, Eric Greenwell wrote: pavel skrabal wrote on 1/20/2021 9:06 AM: Looks like new interesting project for storing IGC flights. I think prehistoric OLC needs some fresh blood competition. WiFi download of flights straight from LX computers again this summer? The presentation is very good, and I prefer it to the OLC presentation, but I think a bigger issue is we have too many places to send IGC files. I wish the sites would coordinate, so a flight posted on one would automatically post on the others, at the selection of the pilot. Perhaps, this could accomplished with a web site that accepts a flight log, then automatically uploads it to other sites that pilot has selected. That way, a pilot could make a single posting the goes to, say, four flight display sites. This might also fix the LXNav posting issue to OLC. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me) - "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation" https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1 I am trying out WeGlide this season. Had my first flight yesterday. Posted my flight log to WeGlide last night. About 18 hours later I got an email from OLC Result Notifier about the same flight. How did that happen? I didn't post my flight to OLC, only to WeGlide. Are OLC copying flights from WeGlide to keep themselves looking relevant? Or are WeGlide uploading to OLC too? Funny. Now (an hour after I posted the above here) my flight has vanished from OLC. No I don't think I was hallucinating :-) |
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 14:58:35 -0700 (PDT), Moshe Braner
wrote: Funny. Now (an hour after I posted the above here) my flight has vanished from OLC. No I don't think I was hallucinating :-) Think twice. WeGlide and OLC are two completey different organizations, and there is definitely no file exchange. Did you upload your flight with your LX flight computer by any chance? Since this year (and the appearance of WeGlide as a strong competitor) OLC has enabled this funktion again. Cheers Andreas |
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On 4/19/2021 1:40 PM, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 14:58:35 -0700 (PDT), Moshe Braner wrote: Funny. Now (an hour after I posted the above here) my flight has vanished from OLC. No I don't think I was hallucinating :-) Think twice. WeGlide and OLC are two completey different organizations, and there is definitely no file exchange. Did you upload your flight with your LX flight computer by any chance? Since this year (and the appearance of WeGlide as a strong competitor) OLC has enabled this funktion again. Cheers Andreas I got the file from my Nook that was connected to my FLARM in the glider. And I uploaded the file manually from a PC to WeGlide only. On purpose, since I am trying that system out now, and told my clubmates to look for my flights there and not on OLC. It took another 18 hours or so to somehow show up on OLC. And it disappeared from OLC shortly after I mentioned that here, with no action on my part. Yes they are completely different organizations, that is the point. WeGlide allows (AFAIK) unlimited downloading of any posted flight logs, by anybody, without a login. So it is possible for a competing organization to copy and post the same flight logs. |
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:52:52 -0400, Moshe Braner
wrote: I got the file from my Nook that was connected to my FLARM in the glider. And I uploaded the file manually from a PC to WeGlide only. On purpose, since I am trying that system out now, and told my clubmates to look for my flights there and not on OLC. It took another 18 hours or so to somehow show up on OLC. And it disappeared from OLC shortly after I mentioned that here, with no action on my part. I haven't tried it yet, but I suppose it's possible to download an IGC file from WeGlide and upload it to OLC... looks like someone did that, possibly just to test something. Yes they are completely different organizations, that is the point. WeGlide allows (AFAIK) unlimited downloading of any posted flight logs, by anybody, without a login. So it is possible for a competing organization to copy and post the same flight logs. I am extremely sure that WeGlide is the future. In Germany now after only four weeks of regular operations the number of flights uploaded to WeGlide equals the number in OLC, and there are so many easily accessible stories and pictures each day that - to me at least! - WeGlide is a completely new and incredibly exciting experience to "feel" the flights of others. https://weglide.org/flights?scoring_...der_by=-points I dare to predict that at least in Germany OLC will be redundant after this summer, and I'd love to see the rest of the World adopt WeGlide, too. |
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On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 at 13:01:54 UTC+3, Andreas Maurer wrote:
I dare to predict that at least in Germany OLC will be redundant after this summer, and I'd love to see the rest of the World adopt WeGlide, too. Why? We are missing the story behind this. OLC has committed some crime against German pilots? |
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On Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 7:28:51 PM UTC+10, krasw wrote:
On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 at 13:01:54 UTC+3, Andreas Maurer wrote: I dare to predict that at least in Germany OLC will be redundant after this summer, and I'd love to see the rest of the World adopt WeGlide, too. Why? We are missing the story behind this. OLC has committed some crime against German pilots? The decentralized competition in Germany (DMS-t) contracted WeGlide this year, instead of the OLC as was tradition. I know two other countries that will also be strongly considering moving their decentralized competitions this year. Many pilots only upload their flights to be scored in these contests. Aside from that, I think the disabling of uploads from LX9000 devices lost the OLC a lot of goodwill against the large base of LX device owners too. |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:28:49 -0700 (PDT), krasw
wrote: On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 at 13:01:54 UTC+3, Andreas Maurer wrote: I dare to predict that at least in Germany OLC will be redundant after this summer, and I'd love to see the rest of the World adopt WeGlide, too. Why? We are missing the story behind this. OLC has committed some crime against German pilots? Let me put it like this: Certain decisions in the last ten years have been... most unfortunate and have left the impression that OLC is tailored to a certain small group of people who benefit from rules thast were implemented in the last years. Combined with a complete lack of unresponsiveness and a completely outdated technical base that is getting worse each year, people seem to have been waiting for a modern platform like WeGlide. |
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:52:36 +0200, Andreas Maurer
wrote: Combined with a complete lack of unresponsiveness and a completely outdated technical base that is getting worse each year, people seem to have been waiting for a modern platform like WeGlide. Ooops... typo. Correct version: Combined with a complete lack of response... |
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To add to Andreas' statement:
I reached out to RAS earlier this morning about a difficulty logging in to weglide. Weglide responded to me WITHIN AN HOUR and my problem was solved. Now that's responsiveness! I've had the same experience with Matthew and Skysight. Dan 5J On 4/21/21 7:54 AM, Andreas Maurer wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:52:36 +0200, Andreas Maurer wrote: Combined with a complete lack of unresponsiveness and a completely outdated technical base that is getting worse each year, people seem to have been waiting for a modern platform like WeGlide. Ooops... typo. Correct version: Combined with a complete lack of response... |
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Fair enough, though I have received response from OLC every time I've had a problem.
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