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Well, not entirely new... I've been experimenting over winter with implementing some kind of online reporting system that we can use at YSA, and I've settled on Google Forms as the best candidate. Having now designed what I think to be a good series of prompts and questions, I would like feedback be...

I haven't watched it yet, but I've downloaded it and will make it available in the clubhouse if anyone wishes to watch it by the fireplace on a rainy day.

Interesting you mention Winpilot. I've been working with the GPSBabel (which translates between geospatial data formats, e.g. IGC to KML; it's what Google Earth uses) team, and they left it up to me whether to keep supporting Winpilot or not. I advised dropping support for it, just last week. I hope...

As part of my efforts to make YSA a safer place to fly, I've been pursuing the greater use of radios. One barrier to that is that some members may not be licensed to use a VHF air band radio. If it's something you've been putting off for years, YSA now has another ROC-A examiner (yours truly). If yo...

Thanks to files I've been sent, I've been able to implement a thermal detection algorithm. I didn't write the detection algorithm (it notably ignores altitude gain/loss and looks only at turn rate). If you want to give it a gander... it's here . Screenshot at 2023-03-16 01-09-37.png (This is one of ...

If someone can point me to some kind of database or listing of the turn points I should be able to. I can probably also extrapolate them if people send me KML files downloaded from OLC, as OLC adds them to those files. Or a map of them would work too. Here's what it looks like, this flight renders w...

Tim sent me a few files from some of his flights out of Invermere. With those IGC files and the work of an Austrian paraglider who wrote an IGC to KML program, I was able to figure out how to work with these files well enough to convert them so that they can be imported to Google Earth. Thank you ev...

I'm hoping to get ahold of a large number of .IGC files, specifically for cross country flights. York Soaring has been invited as a guest speaker to one of the Brampton Flying Club's instructor meetings in April. One of the big inquiries they would like us to answer is where our cross country flight...

As part of the 40th anniversary release of Microsoft Flight Simulator, they've added quite a few interesting aircraft, including the Spruce Goose, DHC-2, the Wright Flyer, helicopters, and yes, GLIDERS! It looks realistic enough that they included proper glider instrumentation, including total energ...

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