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Some pilots decided to do LIVE Tracking with SPOT

• SPOT weight 200 g• Battery life = 14 days

continuous tracking• You can send messages by

SMS, by email • for tracking you also have a

website• It does „ok“ messages• It does „help“ messages

• It does live tracking• It does emergency messages

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Pricing for SPOT

• Depending where you buy it• Cost for the SPOT hardware

starts at 140 US $• You must book the Service as

well• 100 US $ / year for the

standard service• Plus 50 US $ / year for the

tracking service • For more details go to

www.findmespot.com

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LIVE Tracking during the 2009 XC-Open Manilla

http://spot.xcopen.org

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You have to mount SPOT so it has a clear view to the sky; better is on the shoulderSo you can reach it

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SPOT function

• SPOT is first of all a normal GPS receiver• It sends a message of your position via uplink to the

GLOBALSTAR network of communication satellites• When in tracking mode it does this every 10 min• The satellite sends this message to a ground based receiver

station• From there the message goes via internet to the persons

specified by you as SMS or email• For the live tracking SPOT also provides an own website for

each SPOT user• All last positions of XCO SPOT pilots are made visible by XCO

as a Google Earth network feature• Additional programming for Smart Phone users in XCO on

next page:

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Additional programing for Smart Phone users by Andreas

You can look at the last 2 positions of a pilot on a website which is displayed on a smart phoneIt also shows distance and bearing to Mt. Borah

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SPOT shared page for each pilot

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Google earth network link for last pilot positions

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Some important rules from our experience

• You must always send an „OK“ before your flight and after landing

• If you don‘t send an „OK“ message after your flight and 2 positions of SPOT are in the same place, it is a sign of distress for your buddies

• This is why the mobile phone website shows the last 2 positions; you can see if the pilot has moved or not

• There were gaps of up to 40 min in the live tracking – the reasons could be various

• For more information go to www.findmespot.com