And a number of them disagree already.

Wesley is using FS and FSFlight to score the meet. FS is the new approved CIVL software for scoring. But it does a pretty poor job when it comes to checking for airspace violations. Here's what part of my flight looked like on day one in FSFlight:

The straight lines are the edges of the airspace. The straight line coming down from the upper left should be a circle. According to FSFlight I wasn't in airspace, but we know that the airspace is circular and that I was in airspace. So FSFlight does not correctly implement (as far as we can tell) the airspace boundaries from the airspace text file.

Here is what this section of my flight looks like in CompeGPS:

Here CompeGPS (the program that Welsey used for this purpose) shows me in the airspace (using the same airspace file, the same one that was downloaded by Wesley to our 6030's). While it shows me in airspace (the straight line at the bottom is actually a curve), we know that the curve is slightly too far from the center of the airspace and it doesn't show me exiting the airspace, which I in fact do, according to what I saw on my map screen of my 6030.

I brought up my flight in SeeYou with the airspace file provided by Naviter. Here's what it looks like:

The red lines are the airspace. You'll notice that unlike what CompeGPS showed, I do exit the airspace and fly right next to it. This is exactly what my 6030 was showing and that is why I flew just outside the airspace and just outside the corner to catch up with Jonny and Lukas.

So it would appear that both FSFlight and CompeGPS using the airspace definition files that were downloaded to our GPSes do not correctly display the airspace and should not be used for determining whether a pilot has entered airspace or not. SeeYou, using the airspace file provided by Naviter appears to match what we see displayed on our GPSes after Wesley has downloaded his Australian airspace file (assumed to be the same one).

In addition, I would say that if the scorekeeper doesn't download a airspace map to your GPS or flight computer, you could easily run into problems in competitions where this is an issue. Remember we are entering the airspace from the side, not from below, which is the common assumption.

Wesley had no problem loading the airspace onto our 6030's, but couldn't do it onto the 5030's. I believe that you have to unlocked some memory on the 5030's to get that to work.

I will have more on this soon.