When I claim a flight, I go directly to the OLC webpage,
since I don't have SeeYou or Stre Pla (not yet, anyway).

It is a bit cumbersome, but I get the flight posted.

The OLC webpage has a pickbox to select the region,
just as it has pickboxes to select the glider, the
glider type (glider or with engine) and starting location.

While a bit cumbersome, I've gotten used to it and
it seems easy enough. Especially for a FREE service!!!

I wonder, though, if the OLC team could automate the
start location?

To Doug and all on the OLC team, I say 'Thanks' for
a fun, FREE, way to see what and how other pilots are
doing.

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
(Still flying below stall speed. I don't want to
burn off the gel coat...)

At 16:30 03 July 2006, Greg Arnold wrote:
Doug Haluza wrote:

The OLC flight statistics can be broken down by SSA
Region. For
example, if you click on 'Champion' in the OLC-Classic
line of the web
page header, you see results for all regions, but
if you select a
region from the drop-down box, you will see the rankings
for that
region only. This allows people to set up local rivalries,
that
equalize the weather conditions somewhat. So it makes
no sense for
someone flying in the Desert Southwest to claim flights
in Region 1
(New England) just because they receive mail or vote
there.
Unfortunately, if you do select Region 1, you will
see the results are
polluted by a number of pilots who did not bother
to select the correct
region on their claim.


'pilots who did not bother to select the correct region
on their claim.'
Doug, don't you think that statement is rather unfair
to pilots who
are trying to do their best to make sense of the poorly
written and
confusing OLC rules? I realize that the OLC is a volunteer
effort, but
I don't see why the OLC seems to blame everyone but
itself for its
deficiencies. The Cambridge logger problem, for example,
was blamed on
Cambridge and SeeYou, rather than on the OLC ( which
could have simply
set up its software to validate the CAI file, then
itself converted to
an IGC file).