On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:52:36 -0800, dnc303 wrote:

Has anyone else posted a flight and not have it show up either? This
was my first post on the new website.

I uploaded a flight from Sunday, last night, an hour and half before the
midnight cut off. Just after I had uploaded it, it was visible, but not
scored. But then it disappeared. I uploaded it again, there was no error,
but no flight.

The trouble with this, is that for every negative report like this on RAS
are 10 pilots who have withdrawn their enthusiasm from the competition. As
much as you get a positive feeling of accomplishment seeing your flight on
the Net, going through the effort of uploading a flight, without it
working and without receiving any decent error message results in a very
negative feeling.

If you look through the news page of the hang glider / paraglider section
of the competition, you will see that they are close to breaking point.

Last year we beat our local rival club in South Africa on the OLC by just
60 points. Our club is encouraging all pilots to post flights. My missing
flight from last night was worth over 200 points and I don't expect it
will get scored now.

These teething issues may be inconvenient for pilots in the Northern
hemisphere, but south of the equator, where we are entering the peak of
the soaring season this is just not fair.

Win or lose, the results are no longer relevant. So why bother?


Ian