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  • FS 2013 released

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    Joerg Ewald
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    FS 2013, this year’s edition of the CIVL scoring software for paragliding and hang-gliding cross-country competitions, has been released and is available from the FS 2013 download page: Unlike previous editions, FS 2013 comes only with the most recent versions of both CIVL’s and the PWCA’s official scoring formulas: GAP2013 and PWC2013. If older versions…

  • True Altitude – 3D scoring test software

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    Oyvind Ellefsen
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    Daniel Dimov presented his work on finding true altitude at the 2013 CIVL plenary. The presentation and software is now available from the FS website, and work is underway to further integrate into FS. Abstract; Precise altitude information is necessary for 3D scoring in hang and paragliding competitions. GPS altitude data doesn’t respond fast enough to…

  • FS Survey: Results are out

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    Joerg Ewald
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    I’m sorry it took me so long, but finally, I got around to writing up the results from the FS survey we conducted this spring. You can download it from here: FS_Survey_Summary

  • Bug in FS affects leading points in stopped tasks

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    Joerg Ewald
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    This was discovered during the Belgian Paragliding Open 2012, thanks guys for bringing it to our attention: There is currently an error in FS where in stopped tasks, the stop time is not considered for calculating leading points. The end is determined by the last pilot to land. This does usually  not make such a…

  • A short bit on GAP 2011

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    Joerg Ewald
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    Some of you will have noticed that since summer 2011, FS comes with an additional scoring formula: GAP2011. Unfortunately, there is no documentation around that explains what changes were made from GAP2008 to GAP2011. We’re working on improving the documentation for FS, which includes a complete explanation of the current GAP implementation, but until we’re…

  • FS Survey for Score Keepers

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    Joerg Ewald
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    A new team of developers started to work on FS, CIVL’s scoring software. We already have some ideas on where we want to go with that program, but of course the most important input for this comes from the people who actually use it: The competition score keepers. So we created a short survey, and…

  • Major site update to fs.fai.org

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    Oyvind Ellefsen
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    If you can read this we have successfully upgraded the website and backend systems for fs.fai.org The frontpage is now based on WordPress, the forums have been overhauled, updated and upgraded, and the Trac Wiki and ticket system is upgraded to the latest gratest versions. The old site had serious problems with spam as it…

  • New Installer

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    Oyvind Ellefsen
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    The newest version of FS now comes packaged as a exe file, ready to install. It will install FS in “Program Files” directory, make a directory for FS Data in “My Documents”, and also create an uninstaller. Do you guys want demo-data packaged with the installer? Comment on ticket #218 if you have issues or comments to…

  • New GAP documentation

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    Oyvind Ellefsen
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    Thanks to very good work in the Scoring WG we now have a updated document describing the GAP parameters and options as implemented in FS. Have a look under the ScoringFormulas section for the document.

  • Older news from the Wiki

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    Oyvind Ellefsen
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    2009-09-11: After the spam problem got better, it got worse again. I’ve had to close the ticket and wiki permissions for now. It means users will have to register before being able to create and change in the wiki or tickets. It’s not what I want, but I cannot continue to delete spam messages every day.…