The USA On-line Contest (Segelflugszene)
GOAL. The goal of the 'US Hang Gliding and Paragliding Online Contest' (HOLC) is to encourage cross country flying by the timely scoring of cross-country flights, free from the burden of
preflight declarations, to allow an easy and up-to-date comparison of cross country flights.
The proposed rules are
here.
1. Registration. There is no registration or participation fee. Register
here.
Click "Registration" on right side of the drop down menu bar. If you were registered before,
click "Contest Registration Update." If you are new to the HOLC, click "Contest
Registration," in the drop down menu item. Fill out the forms.
2. Login. You can ease things a bit by logging onto the HOLC before you make a
flight claim. You do this after you register the first time or after you update
your registration. When you registered you entered a username and
password. When
here
enter your username and password in the fields located on the left under "MyOLC
login." Then click the "OK" button just to the right of the password field. Now
you are logged in.
3. Creating a track log (IGC file). You'll want to fly with a 3D GPS that can
store a tracklog. This tracklog needs to be downloaded to your computer using
software and a cable to create an IGC-formatted file on your computer.
You
can use GPSDump (http://www.gpsdump.no/body_gpsdump.htm) or SeeYou (www.seeyou.ws) to create IGC files on your computer which you can then
upload to the HOLC web site. You can perhaps find more software
here. (See below for more information on these programs.)
4. Evaluation and scoring points. The software on the HOLC server will check and
optimize your flight for you from your uploaded IGC file.
5. Uploading flights. Flight claims will be accepted
here.
Or go
here, click "Claim Flight" in the drop down menus, then click "Direct Claim
(IGC-file)."
6. Contest period for 2016. October 10th, 2015 to October 8th, 2016.
7. The US Hang Gliding and Paragliding Online Contest Champions for 2016 will be the three participants who score the highest number of points with
six flights in paragliders (Class 3), flex wings (Class 1), and rigid wings
(Class 5).
8. All of your flights used in the US portion
of the Online contest must have started within the US.
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