Mike the Strike
October 18th 08, 09:26 PM
With the close of the 2008 OLC season, I have to note that two of my
colleagues at Tucson Soaring Club (Randy Acree and Tony Smolder) came
in with the overall largest number of cross-country points and TUSC as
a club overall came in third behind Albuquerque Soaring and Warner
Springs Gliders. As a club, we've seen a notable increase in cross-
country activities in the past couple of years and also more interest
from younger pilots.
Looking at the OLC USA results, I note more than 20 flights in excess
of 1000 km and a couple over 1,500 km.
Parowan stood out as the field with the largest points - over double
their nearest rival. It's also notable that the top sites all seem to
be in the west - Moriarty, Warner Springs, Truckee-Tahoe, El Tiro and
Ephrata.
Participation in OLC has increased dramatically and has definitely
spurred on some competitiveness as we all try to rack up miles - I
even ended up flying until sunset recently!
OLC 2009 starts this weekend, so time to start over again!
Check the statistics - there's a lot of interesting data in there as
well as igc files to download if you want to see how the top guys do
it.
Mike
colleagues at Tucson Soaring Club (Randy Acree and Tony Smolder) came
in with the overall largest number of cross-country points and TUSC as
a club overall came in third behind Albuquerque Soaring and Warner
Springs Gliders. As a club, we've seen a notable increase in cross-
country activities in the past couple of years and also more interest
from younger pilots.
Looking at the OLC USA results, I note more than 20 flights in excess
of 1000 km and a couple over 1,500 km.
Parowan stood out as the field with the largest points - over double
their nearest rival. It's also notable that the top sites all seem to
be in the west - Moriarty, Warner Springs, Truckee-Tahoe, El Tiro and
Ephrata.
Participation in OLC has increased dramatically and has definitely
spurred on some competitiveness as we all try to rack up miles - I
even ended up flying until sunset recently!
OLC 2009 starts this weekend, so time to start over again!
Check the statistics - there's a lot of interesting data in there as
well as igc files to download if you want to see how the top guys do
it.
Mike