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StuArt


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2009-01-08 10:09:12 - finishing line issues
Hi all

I was slighlty afraid about the very short finishing line at the Great Lakes race and after a discussion in the chat channel I very carefully setted up a cc about 4 hours before estimated finishing time. I missed the line actually about .3 nm :-(

Probably a longer line (like the last races) would be a solution to avoid keeping poeple awake that have to beat the economical crisis the next morning :-)

Finally them who has to leave the race for reasons are allready punished by missing the gain of some places in the ranking and the excitment of a narrow finish :-)
just my 2 €cent
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kalle


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2009-01-08 18:43:51 - Re: finishing line issues
I'll repost my response to those who mailed about the issue:

We have now investigated the issue and also come up with a solution which has already been implemented.

There are two things that affected accuracy during this race:

1) You can only set CC commands with two decimals accuracy. This means you really have to watch the were the predictor is pointing after a course has been set

2) We had a bad approximation in our graphical predictor code. This approximation has always been present in the client, but this time it became worse than usual because the combination of a high latitude, long straight to finish and a smaller than normal finish line (0.4nm compared to normal 1.5 nm). We have now IMPROVED the accuracy of the predictor so you should end up where it is pointing!

We hope that the fix for 2) will be enough, we might also add another decimal to the graphical picking of courses in the future.


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2009-01-09 12:00:32 - Re: finishing line issues
thanks Kalle for the quick fix. It was a bit of a bad luck anyway.

BTW: great work you are doing here!

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