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	What the smilies are meaning ?
	at Scoring Pages
	a new submitted flight. Flight is valid for scoring and just not reviewed by your national competition coordinator.
	flightclaim is reviewed by national competition coordinator
	flightclaim is reviewed and not valid, due to a reason described at flight info page
	flightclaim is reviewed by national competition coordinator, but flight is valid only for national scoring
	flightclaim is reviewed by national competition coordinator, but flight is valid only for international scoring
	flight will not be reviewed by competition coordinator, flight is below Minimum Distance
	at Flight Info Page
	OLC Server did not check yet if GRecord exist or not ... please visit page later again
	IGC file contains a GRecord
	IGC file contains no GRecord, wrong Software used or file manipulated
	Validation: GRecord not yet checked by OLC Server ... it takes a while if Server load is very high (many flight claimes in same time)
	Validation: Validation for this flight current running, please wait a moment.
	Validation: GRecord of IGC Track verified, result ok
	Validation: GRecord of IGC Track verified, result not ok. Reason and tips are printed at flight info page.

	Help, my flight is not valid (allways red smile) !
	First: make sure that you do not mix Software. Just use only one software for scoring. Reason is, if you read your GPS for example with GPSDump and score your flight with "SeeYou OLC-Direct" feature ... Software SeeYou will automatic add some stuff to your IGC Track during upload. So IGC file is not longer "original". IGC File is for this example, manipulated by SeeYou. Solution: Read your GPS direct with SeeYou 2.7 and higher releases. Second: Some developers, like MaxPunkte, GPSDump ... will give you a download option for a Validation program. The OLC Server is using the same Validation program. It's easy for you to verify your IGC file itself before you upload it to OLC.

	Where I get help for my specific flight claim, because of red error messages ?
	Your local national competition coordinator or coordinator-team is responsible over eMail for you. If there is a official TEAM - EMAIL ALIAS, please use official Alias only ! This will make sure that anyone can answer in short time. A private eMail to just one coordinator ... will maybe not readed several weeks !

	But what is with my Software, I have? Who can help me to download GPS and claim flights ?
	Since the competition coordinators do not have the source code of the program itself, only the developer or developer team can help. So if you have Questions to SeeYou, ask SeeYou-Team. If you have questions to CompeGPS, ask CompeGPS Team. If you have questions to MaxPunkte please ask MaxPunkte developer ... Some developers provide it's own readme and help files. Look at the webpage of your software for any Online-Help before asking the developers. Some Pilots around you, maybe Pilots at your local club can assist you to read GPS and claim flights. At OLC Home page we have a Download link, to a good documentation (PDF) for you.

	Can I change my club ?
	It's not fair to change during season, if you have allready submitted flights. That's why the rules are say no to that. Before you submit your first flight at October every year, you have the chance to change your club membership. You, the pilot itself, must do that. At your personal data page, after you login to register for the running season. For any problems arround that, your national coordinator team is responsible for it.

	I have only global Aeroclub Membership, can I enter to a club during season ?
	If local national rules allow that, yes. Ask your national competition coordinator team.

	Can I sent my GPS or my Track Data to OLC Team, so that the coordinators will do the job for me ?
	No. Normaly the competition coordinators have not the time to claim flights complete for you. There are thousands of pilots attending OLC and just few coordinators. Due to Airspace checks at OLC server, a coordinator cannot answer the OLC server question if you have clearnce or not. You must claim your flight itself or maybe a pilot at your club will assist you if you have problems.

	Damn! I made mistakes. How can I change something at my claimed flight ?
	Quite easy. During the allowed timeframe to claim a flight, you can change anything, including erasing your flight and claim a new one ... How? Just click on "edit" link and use your password to reload your flightclaim. You will find "edit" at your "Flight Info" Page over "Daily score". Believe me ! You can change anything at you personal flightclaim ! Including new IGC filenames ... new igc upload ... new manufacture and glider name ... the region, startplaces, better optimized coordinates ...

	I get an error message saying my file has already been used by another competitor. What does this mean, and how can I fix it?
	Your software has created a filename which is not unique, and another competitor has already used that filename. Solution: simply rename your .igc filename using the short .igc format, where the filename has one digit for year, one for month, one character (0-9, A-V) for the day, then 5 characters for the pilot's name and flight number. So, a valid filename for a flight made on July 30th, 2004, by pilot SAM is 47UxSAM1.igc.

	Help, my flight is only visible at daily score and not on ranking lists.
	There can be different reasons for that. The main reason is, if this yellow icon is displayed at flightclaim, validation is not finished yet. So that's the reason that this flight is not added to the ranking lists. Please wait a while and if Icon ist still yellow after 24hours please inform OLC Team. The other reason is, you mean flight is not visible at national ranking. But international 6 flights is ok. Please have a look into your flight again and look for filled region (country). It can be, that this flight was not started at your home country as it is required to have at minimum 1 flight started in your country.