Emailing contest flight log to scorer

On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 11:00:38 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 10:46:01 AM UTC-4, wrote:
From the cockpit, I want to transfer my flight log to my phone and email it to the contest scorer.

If your IGC approved logger is Bluetooth equipped and it is paired to your phone, is it just a simple matter of downloading log to phone and emailing the file?

Are there any "security" issues or 3rd party apps required?


Turns out the log file *name* was not acceptable to Winscore (fixed that by renaming it manually). The naming issue has since been fixed in the app, so be sure to get version 1.19 (or later) if you plan to do that.

Winscore expects log file names to conform to section A2.5 of the FAI Technical Specification for GNSS flight recorders.

2018-04-22-CNI-21Q-01.IGC - Valid
JX_Smith_StdClass_Day1.IGC - Not valid

On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 9:51:12 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 11:00:38 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 10:46:01 AM UTC-4, wrote:
From the cockpit, I want to transfer my flight log to my phone and email it to the contest scorer.

If your IGC approved logger is Bluetooth equipped and it is paired to your phone, is it just a simple matter of downloading log to phone and emailing the file?

Are there any "security" issues or 3rd party apps required?


Turns out the log file *name* was not acceptable to Winscore (fixed that by renaming it manually). The naming issue has since been fixed in the app, so be sure to get version 1.19 (or later) if you plan to do that.

Winscore expects log file names to conform to section A2.5 of the FAI Technical Specification for GNSS flight recorders.

2018-04-22-CNI-21Q-01.IGC - Valid
JX_Smith_StdClass_Day1.IGC - Not valid

Right. Silly though, since those rules still do not guarantee that the file names are unique (two of them could be 2018-04-22-XCS-AAA-01.IGC). On the other hand much more info (such as pilot name) is present in the header lines of the file contents. Anyway, the latest version of IGCdroid does name the files to fit those rules.

On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 1:05:19 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, July 19, 2018 at 9:51:12 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 11:00:38 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 10:46:01 AM UTC-4, wrote:
From the cockpit, I want to transfer my flight log to my phone and email it to the contest scorer.

If your IGC approved logger is Bluetooth equipped and it is paired to your phone, is it just a simple matter of downloading log to phone and emailing the file?

Are there any "security" issues or 3rd party apps required?


Turns out the log file *name* was not acceptable to Winscore (fixed that by renaming it manually). The naming issue has since been fixed in the app, so be sure to get version 1.19 (or later) if you plan to do that.

Winscore expects log file names to conform to section A2.5 of the FAI Technical Specification for GNSS flight recorders.

2018-04-22-CNI-21Q-01.IGC - Valid
JX_Smith_StdClass_Day1.IGC - Not valid

Right. Silly though, since those rules still do not guarantee that the file names are unique (two of them could be 2018-04-22-XCS-AAA-01.IGC). On the other hand much more info (such as pilot name) is present in the header lines of the file contents. Anyway, the latest version of IGCdroid does name the files to fit those rules.

Actually, the manufacture code and serial number in the file name should guarantee uniqueness.

The example given is actually one generated by the XCSoar program (hence the XCS in the middle of the file name). The program allows the user to chose any three characters for the "unique code" (AAA in this case).

So it is possible for there to be two files from different competitors with the same file name.

Having been a contest scorer for the last 4 years I know that this can occur and use the practice day or the first contest day to sort out those kind of conflicts.

Mike