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Xcontest <> writes:

As you know, major European countries used Xcontest as their official national cross country leagues. After only six months of activity the Xcontest has registered more than 11,000 flights over 10 km by 2,000 pilots from 29 nations. This means that the Xcontest quickly became the biggest worldwide XC online system. In last days we welcomed new country with national ranking - Holland.

We would like to inform you about important news:

USER AREA NEWS:

...coming very soon or in new season...

- edit flights

- display of attached pictures on the map according EXIF data

- display of more flights together in one map (!)

- "play-stop" feature

- connection to the sites databases (www.paraglidingearth.com, www.paragliding365.com, own database later)

- users will be able to check their flights with our special and unique airspace layer to be sure about airspace violation

XCONTEST SERVER WILL BE MUCH MORE FASTER:

It was our most significant problem. During "peaks" - after weekends with nice weather over all Europe (Sunday and Monday) we experienced high traffic with many flight claims and application was sometimes very slow. During summer we made an analysis of all performance-critical parts of our application and found most important areas for rapid speed-up. So, we found "performance holes" and we are working already on all the necessary changes.

ANOTHER FEATURES:

- We did some "user - interface" testing and we want to make little changes during the winter to have Xcontest system more intuitive and logical for users.

- We are still ready to cooperate with another XC online contests about interface between them and Xcontest.

MEDIA, PUBLICITY, PRIZES FOR WINNERS:

We are in contact with Cross Country magazine about close cooperation Xcontest - Xcmag for the next year. In every Cross Country issue you will find an article about actual World Xcontest ranking, beautiful flights or interesting things. This cooperation should results in prizes for winners, better publicity, more pilots and countries and higher attraction for partners and sponsors. For sure we will try to find partners and sponsors for prizes to winners.

NEXT SEASON 2008:

If you have any queries about oncoming season, or you have some idea to improve anything, please write us to email: .

Have a nice flights in finishing season - the "window" of World Xcontest 2007 will be closed at 30 September 2007!

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