TRANSITRACE LOG FILE FORMAT

 

#C parramon    Comment entered by the operator. That it appears twice is a bug!

#C parramon:   Bob Fogg used this to enter the name. Other comments also appear.

 

  1)                                  2)                3)                                    4) 

# TT      FAI_F2A     Round 3 10:16:14       Fri Jul 09 2004

  5)              6)                7)                8)                                                       9)                10)              11)              12)              13)

# Comp Attempt Etime  Mtime1 Mtime2 Mtime3 ESpeed MSpeed EOff   MOff   Ruling

     7 1      12.1652 12.03  12.15  12.07  295.926 297.931 295.9  297.9  $ Electronic

# Timed Flight Laps:  7 – 15  14)

# Individual laps:

                    15)                   16)                            17)

# Lap   Speed(km/h) Time Stamp  Course Speed(km/h)

  1    137.620    127.9822393

  2    213.729    129.8537710

  3    275.729    131.3044700

  4    283.747    132.7141754

  5    287.920    134.1034498

  6    290.682    135.4795220

  7    292.492    136.8470825

  8    294.071    138.2072993

  9    295.066    139.5629280 248.495

  10   295.663    140.9158189 278.345

  11   296.373    142.2654699 290.049

  12   296.733    143.6134835 292.469

  13   297.202    144.9593702 293.993

  14   297.582    146.3035364 295.080

  15   298.239    147.6447419 295.926

  16   298.699    148.9838842 296.619

  17   299.344    150.3201403 297.205

  18   293.635    151.6823734 297.043

  19   197.700    153.7056458 281.474

# Handle Events: 18)

# Engaged         132.045  

 

1)                   Category (Other than F2A are possible)

2)                   Round number

3)                   Time of day in 24 hour format

4)                   Weekday, month, day and year

5)                   Competitor number

6)                   Attempt number

7)                   Electronic time (taken by the system)

8)                   Stopwatch times entered by the operator

9)                   Speed calculated from the electronic time

10)               Speed calculated from the stopwatch times according to the detailed rules.

11)               Electronically obtained speed after truncating to one decimal.

12)               Manually obtained speed after truncating to one decimal.

13)               Operator’s decision on which of the speeds should be used as the official result (Always electronic by decision of the organizers.)

14)               Laps making up the official flight

15)               Individual lap speed

16)               Time in seconds from the attempt start for each sensor pass. The actual accuracy is around three to four decimals, but the added decimals are given to be able to backtrack the program calculations with full accuracy. Le'ts say you want the average speed over laps 13-16. Take the time stamp for lap 16, subtract that of lap 12. As it it four laps, take 4 x 400 = 1600 and divide this by the time difference.

17)               Speed for the most recent kilometre (nine laps)

18)               Here the times for the operator signals for the pilot engaging or disengaging the handle in the pylon are listed. All events until  the official flight is completed get listed.

 

Each flight gets listed on a separate page if the file is printed.

 

To use the file for off-line analysis in an Excel spreadsheet or other application:

 

Copy the file to a Windows system. To import the data into Excel:

(a)            Open the file using Notepad or other plain text editor.

(b)            Select the text to import.

(c)            Copy to the clipboard. (ctrl-insert)

(d)              In Excel, locate the cursor in the upper left cell of the area where you want the data.

(e)            Paste the data from the clipboard. (shift-insert) All fields of the log file are tab-separated, so the numbers will be occupy one cell each.

 

It is possible to get a chart of the speed vs. lap using the Excel Chart Wizard: Select the group of cells with the lap numbers and speed data. Click on the Chart Wizard. Select Chart Type: XY, and any of the sub-types. Click Next a couple of times and then Finish. Done!

 

The format might change in future versions of the TT program!