Last September, I did a full review of all the Minden, NV waypoints, as my (now) normal preparation for flying at a new site. When it was done I had identified more than 20 airports/airstrips that I deemed ‘problematic’ in one sense or another (nonexistant, too narrow for 18m, brush growing on or near the…
Sometime in the last 20 years or so, I became the unofficial ‘custodian’ for my home club’s waypoint database. I think it all started when I kept failing to find a nearby airstrip that was in our database, and on the FAA sectional.
In consultation with Al Tyler and Sam Zimmerman, I have come up with the following plan to tame the wild-and-woolly Perry database ;-).
Authors Preface: As many of you have already discovered, I password-protected this post so I could show it to Al Tyler and get his input before making the review public. This turned out to be an epic mistake, as Bill Elliott was apparently deluged with complaints and/or requests for access (sorry Bill!). So … I’m…
As part of my 12-step crash recovery program, I have taken a solemn vow to never go to another soaring site without first having done a thorough Google Earth review of all the airports/airstrips in that site’s waypoint database. Never again will I arrive at an ‘airstrip’ waypoint only to discover that it can’t be…
Here are 3 photos to show what it looked like at the club today (March 16th). A couple of feet of snow are still pretty well everywhere. It was about -14C, with a lot of wind to make it slightly chilly. Thanks to Martin and Greg for the plo…
The first Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama (GTA) Race of 2014 is coming up! On March 29th and 30th, the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama Racing Association will host their first race of 2014 in Bainbridge, GA (KBGE).
Yesterday was a rain day at the Seminole Gliderport (SGP), so John Mittell (BZ) and I spent some quality time touring possible landing fields in preparation for the upcoming 2014 Seniors contest. Although the SGP soaring area is pretty benign in general, the last few miles coming into SGP can be ‘interesting’ (especially from the west!) if you…
A friend of mine commented the other day that he couldn’t find a decent logging application that could create log entries from IGC files. I have a fair bit of experience with automating Excel spreadsheets using VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), and I was bored out of my skull (it’s winter, don’t you know), so…
I’m writing this from my camper at Seminole, having escaped from frozen Ohio for a sneak preview of the 2014 season. My excuse was the January running of Andy McQuigg’s Weekend Grand Prix race series, but really I was just finding it too hard to wait until the Seniors in March ;-). I started out…
