On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:37:30 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Glider racing will never be completely "real-time" and clever video editing can increase the pace and excitement. Biased though I am, I think glider racing is enormously more exciting than boat racing.



Bill - Have you watched any of the re-boot of the America's Cup Sailing races. It is pretty spectacular now with immense amounts of data being off-loaded the boats and superimpose don them by the race officuals. It shows what Sailplane GP might become. However, we'll see how the viewership numbers go and if sailing sees any "bump" from the activities this coming summer.



EY

Mario Hytten and his company have cutting edge video technology as good or better than that used with the America's Cup races.

One which caught my eye is "GPS aimed cameras". As I understand it, a system much like FLARM "knows" the relative 3D position of other gliders and uses that information to control glider mounted pan-tilt-zoom video cameras. This automatically and accurately keeps selected gliders in the video frame. That's seriously cool technology. I can't wait to see the videos.