Dr. Frank Paynter (TA)
has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and is currently semi-retired from a research position at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. He started his love affair with soaring in the mid-1990’s and goes to as many contests as his wife of 30 years will allow. Before soaring came along, Frank was a power pilot and a national champion skydiver. Several years ago he became interested in the application of the new SPOT GPS tracker for sailplane tracking in general and for contest tracking map displays in particular, and collaborated with Mark to develop the Hawke Tracking technology. Current interests also include working with Nielsen-Kellerman Inc to help improve the ClearNav soaring navigation software, and a line of scientific visualization software.
About Us
Contact
Mark Hawkins
8917 Confederate Dr. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
Phone: (505) 217-3743
or
Frank Paynter
Phone: (614) 594-2078
Hawke Tracking LLC
Mark Hawkins(OA)
is a software systems engineer for Northrop Grumman. He graduated from the US Naval Academy with a Computer Science degree and served as a Surface Line Office once commissioned. He recently moved from Virginia Beach where he had lived for 20 years to Albuquerque where he is an active member of the Albuquerque Soaring Club. He has been flying sailplanes since 1998 but has had a life-long dream of flying. In addition, he has been one of the primary software engineers on the PalmOS-based SoarPilot PDA software. In addition to the SPOT tracking software development, he is a part-time consultant on the NK ClearNav software.
