Eric Greenwell wrote:
Greg Arnold wrote:

Maybe I don't understand, but didn't you submit these flights before
midnight EST on a Tuesday, which is when I think the cutoff is? The
test would be whether a flight (made on Monday or earlier) is accepted
or rejected if submitted after 8 pm PDT on Tuesday. As noted
previously, I know someone (actually, two people) who had flights
rejected in this situation.


I think you're right - as far as I know, I haven't submitted a flight in
that sequence. Did they contact OLC about allowing the submittals, since
they were submitted within the time allowed by the rules?

They didn't contact OLC. I suspect that the rejections were in
accordance with the rules as understood by the people at the OLC, but
the website just doesn't clearly state what the OLC people understand
the rules to be.

That won't help in the situation you described (landing in the middle of
nowhere on Monday, so you don't get to an internet connection until too
late Tuesday). I asked about that situation in an email to them earlier
this year. Summarizing their answer: "We want to ensure the weekend
flights, when most flying is done, are posted promptly, to keep the
contest as 'real time' as possible". It's an unlikely situation (not
getting to internet in time), I think, but I'd still like to see some
tolerance for flights that land a long way from the takeoff point.

Or just require submission of flights within, say, 3 days of the flight.
That would delay the submission of a Sunday flight by only a day (Wed
evening rather than Tuesday evening as now required), but should give
adequate time to submit even flights that land in desolate areas.