"Frank Whiteley" wrote in message
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Personally, I don't know why we are using regional filters at all
unless someone in the SSA is planning on regional records/awards. But
those are not in evidence at this point. Since the SSA has the rights
to the US OLC, I'd like to know who requested the regional queries and
what the plans are. It's worthy of discussion. If this is posted
somewhere, point me there please.

I did award state OLC trophies this year and would appreciate some
selectable state filters to isolate flights originating here,
terminating here, or both. However, I can import pilot flights into a
spreadsheet or database and filter appropriately, just takes extra time
and effort. Criteria for last year were Colorado starts. This
eliminated those flights in Uvalde, Hobbs, and Parowan which might have
skewed things a bit here and there. I also included all Colorado
flights, rather than the top six, as the top six led to additional
skewing to particular sites. Including all flights showed pilot
effort, even though there was little difference in the total number of
flights among the best pilots after the out of state flights were
removed. The regional query also removes flights outside the region,
so it misses what some pilots based within the region may be doing. I
guess the question is where to draw the lines and why. I found the
regional query useless.

Frank Whiteley
SSA Governor Colorado


I'd like to see the worlds national clubs adapt the OLC as a recruiting
tool. The 'WOW!" response evoked by showing an XC flight on SeeYou to a
someone new is increadible. I predict that the OLC plus a flight viewer
will be the 'killer app' soaring recruitment has been looking for.

Lets figure out an easy way for newbies to view these flights. The OLC
'info' page with map and barogram is good but a JAVA app with animation
would be far better, especially if multiple flights could be animated on the
same map. For example if the daily score page could animate all flights in
a country for that day.

Bill Daniels