The flight/task. You can view the flight in Google Earth also from this URL.


The results:
http://www.moyes.com.au/Forbes2007/Results.aspx.


Tracklogs:
http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/forbes2007. You can also find the
results here and the results of the FTV scoring also. You can download tracklogs
and animate them in SeeYou or CompeGPS.


Results:

The competition averaged 115 miles or 185 km tasks. This is likely to be the
longest average ever in a high level competition. The longest tasks were 234 km
and 237 km.


The average percentage of pilots into goal was sixty percent. I can't image that
there has been another high level competition with this level of goal completion
especially given the distances set for the tasks. This indicates good piloting
skills and great conditions.


For a bit of fun and to see how a competition goes, do that following. Go to the
tracklogs section above and download the tracklogs from January 9th. Open up the
zipped in WinZip or other program and extract the flights for Jonny Durand,
Gerolf Heirichs, Davis Straub, Minoru Kato, and Robert Reisinger, for example.


If you do not have SeeYou installed install it. Be sure to choose a custom three
dimensional icon for the three D display, using one of the Moyes hang gliders.
You'll want to size the icon to about 300 meters, which just seems to work
better in SeeYou for some reason.


Open one of the flights. Click Edit, Add Flight, and add each of the
flights to the same screen. Click View, 3D View.


Pull up the window at the bottom of the screen to see the textual information
about each flight. Double click on each flight and change the registration field
to the pilot's first name.


Set the animation timer in the tool bar at the top of the window to about 20 or
40 times. Click the play button.


Put your cursor over the three D display and start moving it around and use your
scroll wheel to move in and out. You'll find an interesting story here.


Torrey Heaney, Grant's 13 year old son, was introduced to SeeYou a couple of
days ago. Within hours he was displaying 3D views of the races to pilots on the
big screen. He was downloading these flights from Tim Cumming's site, choosing
flights and displaying 3 D views of the races for his own enjoyment also. What's
holding you back from experiencing this great learning tool?