The Crosscountry.aero site has just been upgraded, incorporating much of
the feedback received in the past month.

The main change involves a new map system which is now linked to the
barogram and which features new flight data display and playback
functionality.

For those of you who have not yet visited http://www.crosscountry.aero
here are the feature highlights:

-Flight evaluation of all IGC task types (free and declared) to Sporting
Code standard. OLC style distance tasks are also evaluated.
-Image gallery and blog tools for every uploaded flight
-Pilot badge and statistics tracking
-New Pilot Ranking competition format, which includes all styles of
flight (free FAI, declared FAI, OLC distance).

For people interested in participating in the Pilot Ranking competition,
please note that the scoring takes account of flights from previous
years as well. Flights can be uploaded at any time, but you are
encouraged to upload your previous flight history now and take advantage
of the site's pilot stats features.

Development of new features continues with, among other things,
evaluation of competition-style tasks. The plan is to introduce IGC task
(RT, AAT) evaluation.

There has been a suggestion for US rules tasks to be included so I would
like to ask the following question:

If you had a system that would allow you to define and evaluate a MAT,
AT, or other US rules task, would you find this useful?

Alexander Georgas
http://www.crosscountry.aero