Current Sectional Charts for SeeYou

The following is from the rec aviation soaring newsgroup. Lynn Alley provides up to date sectional charts for downloading for use on SeeYou.
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The US sectional charts on my website (in CMR format for SeeYou and
georeferenced TIFF format for GoogleEarth, Global Mapper, etc.) have
been updated to the most recent versions.  Moving forward, I plan to
issue new updates every charting cycle, so that the charts will always
be current.
Some have asked how these are different from the charts you can
download from the FAA.  The answer is that the format that the FAA
provides can't be used directly with SeeYou -- the charts have to be
reprojected and reformatted first.  I also trim the edge material on
both the CMR and TIFF format versions such that the charts tile
together seamlessly.  This is a big deal if you happen to fly near the
border areas.
My website can be found at http://www.soaringdata.info.  In addition
to the sectional charts, you can find current US airspace and airport
data in formats commonly used by popular glide computer and task
planning software.  All of the materials on my site are free, and
freely redistributable.
Happy Downloading!
Lynn Alley
"2KA"
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 Using these current charts on SeeYou, you can print out a local segment of the sectional chart centered on Alexandria for use in the cockpit. I laminate these using clear shelf paper and they are quite durable.

To prepare a local chart, you need to do the following:
1. Open a flight that is not from the desired area. (use a flight from another location, or download an .igc file from olc which is out of the desired area)
2. Move to the center of the area you would like to print
3. Adjust Zoom setting for this area

Then you will want to print what you see:
1. File->Page Setup->Route
2. Set "Print what" to Selection

CISS Tow Pilot Acheives Milestone

CISS Tow Pilot Lynn Joyce recently made his 2000th Glider Tow.

 Lynn is one of the dedicated CISS Tow Pilots for weekend operations and also frequently volunteers to tow the weekday glider pilots.

Thanks Lynn and Congratulations!

 

New CISS Member

New CISS Member Welcome new member Lou "Duke" Koelsch Duke holds a commercial pilot airplane certificate and will be adding a glider rating. He is shown below with tow pilot Lynn Joyce following his first solo glider flight on September 10th. .