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Benalla
Testing, testing.... :-).
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Benalla
On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 3:28:41 AM UTC-7, Dave Springford wrote:
There are 70 trackers deployed amongst 113 pilots. They were dispersed such that every country has at least one tracker per class so you can probably guess where the other pilot from each country is, in each class The tracking seems to be working great! The refresh is amazing. Now it's even more interesting to watch. |
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On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 12:01:02 PM UTC-7, Dan Stroschine wrote:
On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 3:28:41 AM UTC-7, Dave Springford wrote: There are 70 trackers deployed amongst 113 pilots. They were dispersed such that every country has at least one tracker per class so you can probably guess where the other pilot from each country is, in each class The tracking seems to be working great! The refresh is amazing. Now it's even more interesting to watch. Yes, but the missing 43 trackers and those not functioning make the race less interesting because you can see some of the real challenges live. It'll get better along with the new Iridium satellite constellation and other changes. WRT Facebook reluctance and luddites. I don't post much on Facebook, but really do enjoy the streams from various quarters including many of the people I shared a military career with. Social media is not a panacea, the Internet is simply a smorgasbord of shifting paradigms. So much so that it is difficult to keep up with more than 3-4 or maybe a half dozen. However, Facebook does allow for various soaring communities to share and for some sites to aggregate this actively. I expect more in the future. I'll share that someone with a video channel has recently and suddenly seen a huge increase in viewers and comments and questions that appear to be contact from a new demographic, millennials I'd reckon, based on the banter. Almost like a celeb tweeted a channel checkout to a fanbase. Flash in the pan or long term impact remains to be seen. So get a gmail or some other toss away account, sign up for Facebook and like some soaring related pages. Twitter is not as engaged in US Soaring as it is in Europe and Canada. I'm clueless about snapchat, but my attention span is longer than 30 seconds. You too Bob! Frank Whiteley |
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At 16:33 12 January 2017, Duster wrote:
Not a real fan of Facebook, but here is one link https://www.facebook.com/SoaringSocietyofAmerica/ Quite a remarkable video of one of the gaggles: Scroll down to see the post by Matthew Scutter and pics by Sean Howard Jones (uk) described it as "A knife fight in a phone box" Plus blue Plus 32C Not my idea of fun |
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On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-8, Jonathon May wrote:
At 16:33 12 January 2017, Duster wrote: Not a real fan of Facebook, but here is one link https://www.facebook.com/SoaringSocietyofAmerica/ Quite a remarkable video of one of the gaggles: Scroll down to see the post by Matthew Scutter and pics by Sean Howard Jones (uk) described it as "A knife fight in a phone box" Plus blue Plus 32C Not my idea of fun Thanks Jonathon. Makes flying alone in the middle of nowhere even more appealing. Jim |
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On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 12:00:07 PM UTC-6, Jim White wrote:
Well done Sean, great result. Maybe now they'll listen? Only if he can get rid of Wilbur Congrats, Sean! |
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Benalla
Back in another segment of my aviation life, we used to say "if it takes a helicopter to get there it is not worth visiting". Of course the complete opposite is what is true. In another segment of life, my offshore racing days, I was asked if a five day race I did one February was fun, I answered "no but it was worth doing". Each is drawn to their own ""fun.
On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-8, Jonathon May wrote: Howard Jones (uk) described it as "A knife fight in a phone box" Plus blue Plus 32C Not my idea of fun |
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At 14:13 12 January 2017, krasw wrote:
There was a mid-air collision in 18m class today. Both damaged gliders returned to airfield. Such routine is this at WGC level that it did not make news anywhere? Do they use FLARM ? |
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Flarm is essentially useless in big crowded gaggles. Alarms are going off all the time. That says something more about the wisdom of big crowded gaggles and rules that promote them rather than anything bad about flarm.
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On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 2:12:18 PM UTC-8, John Cochrane wrote:
Flarm is essentially useless in big crowded gaggles. Alarms are going off all the time. That says something more about the wisdom of big crowded gaggles and rules that promote them rather than anything bad about flarm. The flying today is scrubbed due to PM wind forecast. Jim |
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