Total cross country distance flown

[Bill Daniels]

The OLC gives the total scored distance flown in the US for the 2005 season
as 1,068,218.12 km (3044 flights). What do you suppose the actual total
distance flown for all flights was in the world? I couldn't find that
number on the OLC web site. Whatever it is, it's sure to be a pretty
staggering number.

Most non-glider pilots are astonished that gliders can go XC at all. Most
sports fans like numbers so I'd think it would be worth at least a footnote
in recruiting efforts.

Bill Daniels

[[email protected]]

Now if only we could exchange those for frequent flyer miles.

[Bill Daniels]

"Asbjorn Hojmark" > wrote in message
city.dk...
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:15:52 -0700, "Bill Daniels" >
> wrote:
>
> > The OLC gives the total scored distance flown in the US for the 2005
> > season as 1,068,218.12 km (3044 flights). What do you suppose the
> > actual total distance flown for all flights was in the world?
>
> No clue.
>
> The Danish league (Termikligaen) is approx 253000 km (1200 flights,
> 350 pilots, out of a population of 5M people in a physically small
> country).
>
That's much better on a per-capita basis than the US.

I think I found a total world OLC number for the 2005 season.
Total Scored Daily Distance : 17,384,977.37 km (10,802,524 miles) in 58,803
flights.

Now THAT's an impressive number.

Bill Daniels

[Dan'l]

If you go to 2005, club statistics, then select 1-1177 (or whatever
number of clubs was) you see:

58784 flights
17,374,122.14 km
9024 pilots.

DD

Asbjorn Hojmark wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 16:15:52 -0700, "Bill Daniels" >
> wrote:
>
> > The OLC gives the total scored distance flown in the US for the 2005
> > season as 1,068,218.12 km (3044 flights). What do you suppose the
> > actual total distance flown for all flights was in the world?
>
> No clue.
>
> The Danish league (Termikligaen) is approx 253000 km (1200 flights,
> 350 pilots, out of a population of 5M people in a physically small
> country).
>
> -A
> --
> The Usenet Sect -- Resistance is futile. You will assimilate ò-|

[Ramy]

Actually the 2005 total for the US is 1825076.48 km (6192 flights). You
need to select "Statistics - all flights", click on the last button
then scroll to the bottom.
The world total is an amazing 17384977.37 km (58803 flights) - over 17
million km!

Ramy

[[email protected]]

Now, just imagine if the OLC web site didn't reject most of our flights
!
I know, its getting better...
Best Regards, Dave
(whose 15m/18m/sometimes motorized contraption is just too confusing)

[Bill Daniels]

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Now, just imagine if the OLC web site didn't reject most of our flights
> !
> I know, its getting better...
> Best Regards, Dave
> (whose 15m/18m/sometimes motorized contraption is just too confusing)
>

That plus the flights that weren't even submitted. I'd speculate that the
actual total was more than 20 million Km flown.

You know, we need to use the OLC in talking about soaring to non pilots.
When you're trying to sell a concept, big, verifiable numbers are effective.

Bill Daniels

[Stefan]

Bill Daniels wrote:

> That plus the flights that weren't even submitted. I'd speculate that the
> actual total was more than 20 million Km flown.

Much more, I suspect. In our club, 300+ km cross country flights are SOP
and we never submit anything.

> You know, we need to use the OLC in talking about soaring to non
> pilots. When you're trying to sell a concept, big, verifiable numbers
> are effective.

I don't think the OLC is particularly useful for this. Just imagine the
huge total distance which is walked by feet every day worldwide! Much
more impressive to the uninitiated is the distance a single pilot flys
on a sunday. My experience is even that people are most impressed when I
tell them not the distance flown, but where I have been and what I have
seen.

Stefan

[schogglad]

I think both is important.

Big numbers are important to show that gliding is not a niche
thing with only a handful of people doing it - so this shows the
size of the community.

the "i have been here and have seen this" thing is more important
to convey the fascination of our hobby.

[Denis]

Ramy a écrit :
> Actually the 2005 total for the US is 1825076.48 km (6192 flights). You
> need to select "Statistics - all flights", click on the last button
> then scroll to the bottom.
> The world total is an amazing 17384977.37 km (58803 flights) - over 17
> million km!

During 2 weeks (IGC gliding weeks) it has been 2,511,421 kms and 5,224
flights

> FAI - IGC Gliding Weeks / Semaines de vol Ã* voile FAI - IGC
>
> Two �gliding weeks� were held to contribute to the celebration of the FAI
> Centenary. The aim of these two-week periods (one northern
> <http://www.fai.org/centenary/node/22> hemisphere and one southern
> <http://www.fai.org/centenary/node/21> hemisphere) was to record the total
> number of kilometres flown by all glider pilots during the nominated days.
> The German OLC website and the French NetCoupe were used to log and record
> the flights. The total distance flown was an astounding 2,511,421 kms,
> achieved with a massive 5,224 flights. This is equivalent to 62-and-a half
> times around the Earth!
> Diplomas will be awarded to the best flight in each FAI class.



--
Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?