when will the log files for each pilot be available online so that they can be downloaded for bug racing.
Thanks and regards,
Glennie Richard
Malheureusement hier le tracking on line s'est arrêté en pleine épreuve (après +/- 1 heure), et on n'a pas pu suivre la fin de la course..
dommage...
Mais les dieu..0x météo et informatiques sont capricieux. Je sais...
Cordialement,
Guy Gildemyn
(APSV)
Site sympa qui permet de suivre les épreuves sans être à St-Aub.
Cela donne vraiment envie de venir vous rendre visite.
Deux remarques :
- Le nombre de photos dipsonibles est faible, trop faible.
- Il serait intéressant d'avoir des commentaires sur le déroulement de l'épreuve une fois celle-ci terminée. Pourquoi ne pas demander à deux
ou trois pilotes (tirés au hasard ?) de commenter leur vol ?
Pour info, la page http://www.cnvv.net/wsgp/fr/accueil.htm est vide !
La page en anglais est OK.
Merci et bons vols.
Eric
Hi to you all!
I am following the grand prix from Norway. Of course I am fan of the
Italian team!
I like the idea and vPos through internet can finally make the competition
visible.
I think that two improvements could be, first to be able to install a vPos
viewer on remote computers and have the stream of data be sent to my
terminal. This way I can choose myself how to view the development of the
competition.
The second improvement could be (if the first one is too complicated) to
have somebody to write a minute by minute (or every 5 minutes) update of
the
situation. E.g. Galetto is ahead but lower than the followers. Gostner has
turned the point in third place, etc...
As an idea one can take the Formula 1 website to see how one can follow
the competition through internet. A real time vPos streaming data to
remote vPos
viewers of course would increase the attractiveness even more.
Just some thoughts.
Bring my regards to the Italian team and have a successful event!
Best regards,
Eduardo Jacucci
Mark Dickson
Hi,
Great event, exciting with Regattastart, and then first
home is the winner.
The tracking is fantastic too (when it works!), but all
gliders should
have vpos-units.
Very nice pictures, hopefully some from different
turnpoints will be
available later.
One very popular idea, used at the WGC2004 at Elverum,
Norway, was to make
the IGC-files available for downloads. Many
"home-pilots" using
flightsimulators could then "compete" with the
pros!
Good luck with the weather, and the remainding of the
competition.
Regards, Oivind Marman, Oslo, Norway.
things to improve:
1 webcam
2 still can't see dynamic flight visualisation from task2
3 when you write sth has happened like damaged landing gear, please attach a picture of it, always couriose of such details
everything else I find really great, organisation and great championships, just hope weather will improve
congrats and regards from POLAND!
Damian Faryniarz (polish national junior team member- 2003 junior vicechamp)
I think that the GP format looks good. I guess that the regatta start method restricts the number of pilots - or is there a provision for
multiple start gates?
My comments are about the website and tracking.
Website: The website team has been very good about keeping the new flowing
- but more news would be nice.
If you were able to the following would be nice ...
- Webcams of the weather, grid and finish line
- More news and photos
Tracking: I'm very impressed but
- could you have several pages available
1) Overhead shot so you can see who is leading
2) a table of the data available (pilot, height, speed, dist done,
turnpoints rounded, etc)
Keep up the good work and I hope the weather improves for the competition!
Tim Davies
thank you very much for those wonderful videos on your website, but unfortunately the video "race-040905" does not work.
Congratulations for a wonderful job you are doing in giving informations to all of us over the internet.
Kind regards
Jürgen Becker
Wesel, Germany
LS8-18-YO
Your website has asked for feed back .....................
You are to be congratulated on your website, a fine piece of work and regularly updated also.
Perhaps a chat and or message facility would assist the interaction of the visitors to the web site. (ma non troppo!)
The tracking and videos are most impressive and clearly now take our sport into the realms of a saleable world-wide mass-market where all the world can enjoy the excitement of cross-country racing and sponsors can get a significant return on their investment.
Keep up the good, nay excellent work!
The weather,as ever, is conspiring against you - perhaps the next Grand Prix should be held in sunnier climes, may I suggest South Africa? Having organised the 2001 WGC they are clearly up for this level of event.
Kind regards
Stephen Thomas
I find the site very nice and informative. But where can I find the igc-files?
Regards,
Magnus Johansson
Roman Clara
Aero Club Bozen / Southtyrol - Italy
PS: Good luck to Giorgio Galetto and Thomas Gostner
Bravo et vivement le soleil
Patrick
Strasbourg
Un très grand bravo aux techniciens : Gontran en particulier... mais je n'oublie pas Benj....
La traduction anglaise est PARFAITE (bravo à Helen)
Quant aux photos, pour mon prochain "book" j'embaucherai bien volontiers Jean-Paul.
L'homme à la barbe fleurie (Roland), m'a bien séduite par ses commentaires.
Je vous embrasse à tous et toutes de tout coeur.
Adriana KABEU
Here in Holland quite a lot of pilots know the GP and I have heard of 10+ people that they are following it on a daily basis.
I have also interested a couple of friends and neighbours who enjoy it.The tracking is informative, but a bit static: if the 30 sec.
interval could be reduced,it would be more lively.
The total presentation is very good. The news gives a good idea of what's going on and the photos give an excellent impression.
Sorry for you all that the weather doesn't cooperate, but there are still three days to go; who knows.........
Tomorrow I am leaving for Gap and I have the intention to go to the farewell-party Sundayevening (if we are wellcome) to encourage the
one and only Dutch participant.
If you see Erik, please give him many greeetings of his old club: the KZC.
Kind regards, good luck and see you.
Noud Vermeulen.
puisque que tu ouvres ton mail pour débriefing, je te donne mes impressions de spectateur internaute :
le tracking et la visu dynamique ont fait des progrés phénoménaux, bravo !
ce qui manque à mon avis :
- la possibilité de télécharger les vols pour les possesseurs de seeyou (pour ceux qui l'ont sur le PC, ce qui permet la visu en 3D)
- les commentaires en audio (ou à la limite en chat) de Bada. C'est indispensable pour rendre la course vivante. Un GP de F1, il n'y a pas
grand chose à voir, ce qui rend le spectacle interressant, ce sont les commentaires. A mon avis, cela doit pouvoir se faire facilement sur le
modèle des radios web.
Bon courage pour la suite,
Nico VAUNOIS
Really excellent site, content and presentation !!!
One really gets a buzz from the atmosphere generated by the script,
photos and VPOS.............pity about the weather though !!
Will keep logging on hoping for a race day........best of luck
Dr John Barrett
England
Je possède par ailleurs le logiciel Silent Wings (que j'ai acheté en Norvège lors du Wavecamp en mars), et il est particulièrement
intéressant de re-visualiser par soi-même les vols téléchargés sur le site du Grand Prix.
Une option à envisager serait de suivre les vols en temps réel, à distance sur son propre ordinateur avec son propre logiciel, avec des
data reçus en temps réel via le site de Grand Prix. Est-ce utopique?
Cordialement,
Guy Gildemyn - Belgique
(APSV)
You asked for feedback on the Grand Prix website. I have only one word to describe it: FABULOUS !!
It is crystal clear to navigate, always up to date (even when it rains) and off course you have the real time tracking showing all competitors
in stead of the usual 2 or 3.
So from me you receive only compliments and no critics :-)
Kind regards from Holland
Walter Vortrefflich
"We connect Personally"
also very impressed, as usual, with the St. Auban team, who also do the best they can - good weather or bad.
Best regards,
Roderick Read
Saw the site for the first time today and followed the race online. A new experience and one I greatly enjoyed.
Some thoughts.
Is it possible to refresh the picture more frequently than every 30s? This would be especially useful when showing shots of individual gliders rather
than the overall positions in the race. If a series of, say, 10 shots of individual gliders are shown between the overall positions then a wait of
perhaps 5 minutes is required to see how the race is going overall - long enough to lose interest perhaps!
The satellite imagery is great - seeing the gliders today below the level of the hills was fascinating - getting me rushing to my air maps to see how
high the mountains actually are in your area (higher than the gliders most of the time). However, it can be quite difficult to follow the tracks of
the gliders and to make out their details against the background. Perhaps it would be possible to make the tracks a bit wider / bolder, and, perhaps
to have the ID and height against a white background. Whilst names are 'friendly' they do take up a lot of space and tend to superimpose - would it
be possible just to show the IDs?
I can think of loads of possible enhancements if the user had control of the image being received, but I guess this is beyond the current technology. As
a way for gliding comps to go this seems really excellent. I also like the simple scoring system. I'm a supporter of Competition Enterprise in the UK
which has been promoting simpler scoring for years.
Keep up the great work - (and pass best wishes to Andy Davis and Mike Young
in Team GB).
Regards
Andrew Reid
a great job and the feedback fro Bruce is of a very exciting and interesting competition. Such a high standard of pilots make it very interesting. Real racing is impressing the pilots and those of us watching from afar.
Cannot do much about the weather, but it must be really frustrating for you. Keep going. A small task is just as exciting as a big task.
I hope the last few days go well, and the Salon attracts a good crowd.
The web page is great. We cannot watch the tracking due to the time difference, but the other info is great.
Regards
Terry Cubley
Un grand bravo pour la manière très riche avec laquelle vous nous immergez dans ce grand prix !
Photos, vidéos, cartes, images live, texte, news ... vraiment superbe.
Je ne suis pas vélivole mais on a vraiment l'impression d'y être, de sentir l'ambiance comme si on y était !!!
Un grand merci pour nous faire partager ainsi votre passion.
Que vive le Grand Prix !
Amicalement
Patrick Bantzhaff
Strasbourg / France
Shame about the weather.
You asked for opinions...
I think day 2 exposed some weakness in the way points are allocated. 6 pilot spearated by 16 seconds.... 1st gets 10 pts, 6th gets 4 pts... does not remotely reflect how close the competitors were.
Maybe you should group finsihers that are very close with the same time - like the Tour de france and perhaps give the first across the finish line 10 points - all those that are separated from the winner and subsequently from each other by no more than 30 seconds get 9 points. if there is a gap of more than 30 seconds then the next finisher gets 8 points - anyone finishing within 30 secs of him also gets 8 points. If there is another gap of more than 30 seconds then the next pilot gets 7 points - etc. etc.
As long as the very first finisher gets a bonus of 1 point then you will still have a dramatic race to the line.
following pilots will try to close up on pilots ahead of them to get within 30 seconds of them. Pilots in front will try to stretch the gap to force a 1 point difference.
Regards
Paul Crabb.
J'ai un accès internet aujourd'hui et je compte bien suivre la course en direct
@+
Henri
SCHERR
I would have like to visit you during the Grand Prix, but it was not possible. Your home page on Internet has been a nice way of taking part in the action. Thanks.
If it is feasible to get out some more pictures and information related to what is happening on the glider exhibition it would be appreciated.
Sincerely
Arne Wangsholm
Norway
Plus particulièrement merci à ceux qui ont permis aux vélivoles lointains de suivre le tout de très près: photographe(s?),
chroniqueur(s?) 'on line' sur le site web, informaticiens etc.
Les pages 'News' et 'Galerie' ont été bien tenues à jour (à la minute même).
A +...
Guy Gildemyn
Belgique
(APSV)
first of all congratulations to the Grand Prix. Great web covering and live tracking. I was watching this from the US.
My question. In the picture I enclosed it shows a glider/ultralight plane. What kind of plane is this and where can I get information. On the fuselage it says "Taurus" but I couldnt find anything on the internet about it...
Thanks for your help.
Eric NEUBRONNER
Compliment for the Site, it was very nice to follow the gliders!
Picture's en story's also!
Thanks en best regards from Holland
GH
Gert en Hennie Buitink
Roland: We have been
directing readers of Gliding and Motorgliding International (http://www.glidingmagazine.com)
to your website for information about the Sailplane Grand Prix, but we
should like to know much more about it, particularly the pilots' accounts
of their flights and their response to the Grand Prix idea, and the
response of the general media to the event.We are currently devoting a lot
of space to articles about the decline of club and national organization
membership and what can be done about it, and have taken a lot of interest
in this attempt to attract the attention of the public through the general
media. We invite the world's national and club newsletters and
magazines to download the articles in GMI and reprint them without risk of
copyright infringement, so any news and feature articles you can send us
will get an immediately world circulation. Do you have email addresses of
the pilots who are comfortable writing in English? Val Brain, editor, GMI
Brain John
Roland: Thanks for
your reply. The GMI website has been really screwed up since SSA took over
the site, and has only just got back its photo section, which went down in
January! I try to get my email address out whenever I ask for readers'
letters, but the dedicated email address I was promised never
materialized. This one is my university address. The Sailplane Grand Prix
idea is an interesting experiment and deserves all the publicity we can
give it. As a professional PR type, I can imagine the stress of staging a
race in which all the contestants land out -- and apparently that nearly
happened. I'm sorry I missed any materials you sent me, but was able to
follow the event on your website and tell others about it. Now I'd like to
know what the pilots thought, what the audience thought, and if any video
is being put together in documentary form. At the rate cell phones etc.
are developing, it may one day be possible to fly along with the
contestants on our computer screens. Stay in touch! Val
Brain John
grand intérêt à Nouméa.
Afin de promouvoir notre activité, je serais intéressé pour le club d'organiser une séance de projection publique avec des images du grand prix
et des images de notre cru. Notre saison commence actuellement et nous souhaiterions recruter de nouveaux membres.
Est-ce qu'il vous est possible de nous envoyer des images de manière à monter une séance d'un peu plus d'une heure et à quelles conditions ?
Dans l'attente de votre réponse,
Etienne GED
Président Association calédonienne de vol à voile.