It's been a long while since Geelong Gliding Club has had teenagers running around the airfield. But we're pleased to announce that over the past year we have had an influx of six, plus three others that are keen to begin. With our constant enthusiasm for gliding and will to learn, joining a club with more adults than kids is now a lot easier than before. Having other juniors around is amazing, and everyone has realised that it's possible for teenagers to fly!
We’re glad to be a part of a club which has been around for a long time, however a warning to the adults is in order: We’re learning fast and we’re not going to slow down!
The GFA has just published the results for theSummer and Winter Decentralised Competition 2009-10. The entire document can be found on the GFA website.
Summer 2009-10 Results:
Top 10 DCE Cross Country Soaring Clubs:
- Geelong Gliding Club - 4th
Top 10 Pilots, Less than 200 hours:
- Ales Rajch - 2nd
- Adam Webb - 7th (also member of Canberra Gliding Club)
- Jan Bidstrup - 10th
Top 10 Junior Pilots:
- Adam Webb - 1st (also member of Canberra Gliding Club)
- Ailsa McMillan - 3rd
Top 10 Women Pilots:
- Ailsa McMillan - 7th
Top 10 Australia-Oceania League (Best 3 speed flghts per weekend over 19 weekends):
These are low resolution photos taken on my
iPhone as an experiment in generating short messages with simple
pictures via Twitter.
It is not necessary to join Twitter to look at
these photos, and they don't replace the use of our own site to collect
photos via the galleries already provided for members.
The Cambridge flight recorders use a proprietary flight log format; the .CAI
file. To register these on the Aerokurier OLC they need to be converted first
to an FAI format .IGC file, but also modified to include a copy of
the original .CAI file (an OLC requirement). This is done using a number of
DOS programs available on the Cambridge Aero Instruments web site and the OLC.
This process is a bit fiddly in these days of Windows operating systems so
Karl Ekdahl wrote up a script a few years ago to automate this process. With
the advent of 2010 however a number of pilots have reported problems with
this utility and have had to revert to the DOS process.
As a
consequence a visual basic script file Cai4olc.vbe to run under WSH (Windows
Scripting Host) has been written and provided to automate the task.
The script is included with the other required files in the archive. To download the Cai4olc download script, please follow this link (zip archive 116KB).
The instructions for installation can be downloaded via this link (PDF 84KB).
