HELP NEEDED!!!

Wendy Patterson · Post by **Wendy Patterson** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 8:05 pm

wendy has broken flights on her competino can anyone tell me the easiest way to join the flight files to create 1 flight which can be uploaded?

thanks in advance Colin

Post by **gary stenhouse** » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:06 pm

sorry colin but once a flight has been broken as a result of the competino stopping in flight there is no way of rejoining to make 1 flight. what you have to do in the nxl is to work out your flight manualy then submit both igc that our 1 flight for verification. if you want me to try for you send the igc files to me and i will have a look

stenhousegary@yahoo.co.uk

bill-scott · Post by **bill-scott** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:21 pm

get a garmin 12

Misk · Post by **Misk** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:19 pm

In future switcg off the auto record and trim your flights down to take off - land in GPSDump before submitting.

lanceg · Post by **lanceg** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:20 pm

My Flytec 5020 has stopped mid flight several times.
Once during the LCC comp - I could have won by miles otherwise!!!

So thanks Misk I will turn off auto record and see if that fixes it.

Otherwise, Flytec can have it back - I believe there was a faulty batch.

Isn't Competino the European version of the Flytec?

Misk · Post by **Misk** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:39 pm

Yes Lance - in auto it will swich off if it decides you have 'stopped' either vertically or horazontally. I fly with it in manual and have to edit tracklogs in GPSDump before submitting.

Sergey · Post by **Sergey** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:02 pm

My Compeo never broke a flight - is that because it's a bigger device with a pitot tube sticking out, or because a HG doesn't really stay at the same coordinates for ages

Sad Northerner · Post by **Sad Northerner** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:59 pm

Good point, lets face it paragliders only have two speeds; slow and slower!

Ali

Post by **gary stenhouse** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:15 pm

your right sergey it will not happen on a hg unless it is blowing 40mph and if it is the last think you will need to worry about is your final trace or black box

Neil · Post by **Neil** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:03 am

you can join them together in microsoft excel. you delete the end of the first file then the front of the second file. then copy the 2nd file and past it onto the end of the 1st . save file and post to xc league. or email them to me and ill do it when im back from tunisia.

lanceg · Post by **lanceg** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:50 pm

It works - thanks for the tip Neil.
I have successfully 'joined up' the recordings of a recent 'split' flight on Carrock.
Very simple to do - I used Notepad to edit rather than Excel.

Now I'm considering joining up all my flights for this year - that should add up to an massive extra 2 OLC points!

Goodness knows what else you can do if you tamper with the codes.

Sergey · Post by **Sergey** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:56 am

Does the joined flight have a valid digital signature? K-record, whatever it's called?

Misk · Post by **Misk** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:01 am

No I don't think so but that ony matters for the NXCL or record flights.

lanceg · Post by **lanceg** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:13 am

Does the joined flight have a valid digital signature? K-record, whatever it's called?

No idea Sergey - this is the flight:-
http://www.nhpc.org.uk/nhpc/modules.php ... ghtID=3438

I have also attached the joined up .igc file.

The 5020 'stopped' after 12 minutes with the vario sound continuous alerting me to the problem. I pushed the Esc button once and it started the 'new' flight.

The Flychart program does not recognise the joined up flight - I suppose it uses the corresponding .olc file which is unfathomable to me.

Sergey · Post by **Sergey** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:40 pm

My Compeo's track memory got currupted once, when it ran out of battery in-flight.

After that, the device was switching itself off after a minute or two of flying, with a warning sound. Next XC I flew by feeling the Force!

Compeo was cured by erasing tracklog memory, as Brauninger engineer recommended. You may want/have to do something similar to your 5020 if it misbehaves.