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• 5/21/2008 4:09 PM Wolf wrote:
  Hi guys,
  
  listening to your podcast on the 14er challenge and the olc in particular, I'd like to bring to your attention a relatively new piece of software. It's called flight replay and hooks an igc file into Google Earth. And no! it's not the representation of igc data on the Google Earth maps with the option to " play the tour" ie to animate the trace. Flight replay lets you view the flight from the cockpit with several options. It's windows-only, so I saw only a couple of screen shots from flights in the Swiss and French Alps and all I can say is WOW! Spectacular!
  
  Here's the URL to the website - it's a free download
  
  http://ywtw.de/igcsimen.html
  
  Have fun
  
  and get those 14ers!
  
  Wolf
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• 5/22/2008 6:33 AM Tom wrote:
  One thing you didn't mention in the 14er challenge is how close one must get to the peak. Even if flying directly over the top, it's unlikely my flight trace will pass *precisely* over the peak's coordinates.
  
  I see two choices here:
  
  1) set it up as a turnpoint and use the FAI 0.5km radius centered on the peak
  
  2) allow for a greater distance but require the pilot to go "around" the peak. Perhaps cloudbase or thermals are just not high enough to get within a half kilometer. But if the pilot flies within perhaps a couple kilometers and the peak is circumscribed by the flight path as determined by a judging panel.
  
  Keep up the good work.
  
  -Tom
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  1. 5/22/2008 7:34 AM Doug and Colin wrote:
     Hi Tom,
     
     We are tweaking up the rules and will post them on the website shortly.  Colin has compiled a turnpoint database of the peaks and we will either publish them and/or get them on the turnpoint exchange.  We are leaning towards a FAI radius.  If the peak is obscured you may have to try another day....
     
     Thanks for listening,
     Doug
     
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• 7/3/2008 8:18 PM Bill Gagen wrote:
  Cool Idea!
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• 8/13/2008 2:06 PM Skip wrote:
  Hi, IS!
  
  Any chance we will hear from you again before it snows?
  
  Love the show,
  Skip Jenkyn
  ASW 24
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  1. 8/13/2008 4:15 PM Doug and Colin wrote:
     Hi Skip,
     
     We are working on it.  Summer has not proved to be a good time for having extra time...  I'm afraid we have been unwilling to let podcasting cut into actual flying, etc.
     
     Stay tuned!
     
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