Google released their browser today. They named it Google Chrome and boasted it is the fastest and most secure browser ever. We could not wait to give it a test drive.

There is a very clear verdict. Google promised a lot and lived up to their promises. Hats off to Google. Soaring Spot works perfectly in Google Chrome.

One thing needs to be said to give Chrome the praise it deserves. We test our products on multiple platforms and multiple versions of Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and others. While I personally like to work with keyboard and therefore prefer Opera, the winner of the speed contest amongst browsers is now clearly Google Chrome.

It may be too early to reccommend Google Chrome at this moment. But certainly - give it a try!

http://www.google.com/chrome

See the comics explaining Google Chrome:
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

You have flown in a competition. You have all the IGC files. And you have replayed them numerous times already. But... What was the weather like on that day? What was the forecast?

Wetter-Jetzt team now provides the weather maps for Soaring Spot! For all competition days starting January 2008 you may now see the the weather forecast as soon as the task is published by the scoring team. After the flight you may revisit the Meteo page in order to find even more maps there which will enable you to do a little bit of weather analysis for free. A good example of how this data is integrated to Soaring Spot may be seen at the competition pages of Flight Challenge Cup from Prievidza, Slovakia:

http://www.soaringspot.com/fcc_2008/results/mixed/meteo/day2.html

You want more? There is plenty more available for a small but worthwhile subscription fee at http://www.wetter-jetzt.de/

Soaring Spot is a website.

It's also a community.

It's from glider pilots to glider pilots no matter if you fly sailplanes, hang gliders or paragliders.

It's where you share photos and stories with glider pilots worldwide.

And it works seamlessly with SeeYou Competition if you are a competition manager.

The core functionality of Soaring Spot allows you to manage gliding competitions online. If you are trying to organize a competition you need to stop worrying about how you are going to upload results to the internet or where you are going to publish news about your competition. Soaring Spot is the way to go as here is more than enough features here to cover basic and advanced needs you may have as competition manager.

There are three simple steps that you need to complete to start a competition at Soaring Spot:

1. Acquiring a competition key
Is done by following the Register new competition link in your Soaring Spot account. After you fill in all the data about your competition you will be sent a registration key by email.

2. Administering your competition at Soaring Spot
First you need to sign in to Soaring Spot. Then enter the Competition key that was sent to you by email into the Competition Key form in the Manage Competition section of "MyAccount":

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