So a while ago I took advantage of my REI dividends and bought myself a Garmin Foretrex 101 to take with me on my paraglider flights. Three weekends ago I managed to sneak a flight in, and recorded my first track on the thing. I found GPLIGC a while ago, which is a utility for viewing the statistics of flights, as well as doing 3D models of IGC files (which you can create from the Garmin format easily). I managed to get the elevation data installed/configured, but I haven’t yet figured out how to get the giant 6000×6000 pixel GeoTIFF images from here into a format GPLIGC can digest, so no orpho map backgrounds for my stuff just yet. Anyways, here’s a rendering of my flight:
It was a nice hour long flight, beautiful conditions, etc. I actually only landed because I was starting to feel a bit queasy after the previous night’s festivities (if you look closely at the flight, you can see a spiral or two in there that I pulled to try to get down faster (and for practice as well).
You can grab the IGC file here. Fun stuff, I wish GPLIGC were anything *other* than Perl/Tk, but until I magically find time to hack on something myself (maybe leverage Turtle? Do something new myself?), it will definitely do. Fun stuff!