The central contest is underway in Waipuk...started on Sunday...scoring days so far...nil.
So we can add this to a fairly average Nationals, both Regionals, most Oz contests, the club class Nationals were OK...just, and now the central contest has 4 days left to get a day or two.
Only Drury seems to have had a win.
I see a number of E-mails concerning the Oudie...remember folks it's the software "SeeYou" that is the issue, not the gadget...and a number of local pilots have been using it for a while. You could ask them...
I feel the hand of Big Brother descending...thou shalt not change any settings...wouldn't it be better to educate members on how SeeYou works, how to change the settings, what they mean, rather than issue rules...thou shalt not change the Navbox's, or the safety altitude...
The neat thing about SeeYou is it has lots and lots of options about how to present the information it can generate. The problem is it is so easy to change the settings, and inadvertent touch of the screen would get a beginner into parts of the program they might not understand, both what they are looking at and what it could mean. Accidentally changing your destination from "Finish Sth" to "Matamata" would have some interesting implications on a final glide back from Tokoroa...
I've had SeeYou for 5 years. I spent quite alot of time playing with the gadget out of the glider, at home, at night, to get a good feel for what's best for me. I'd suggest that members are encouraged (notice I didn't use "allowed" or "permitted"...trying to avoid Big Brother) to take an Oudie home once and a while and practise.
As for my old home in Christchurch...bugger...again. This one is really going to hurt...
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