Paul Remde wrote:
I hope most glider pilots will continue to post their flights to the OLC. I
also hope that pilots that break FARs will NOT post their flights on the
OLC.

I think you probably mean that you hope pilots with FAR violations
detectable in the flight log will not post to OLC. It's more about the
appearance of being violation free than actually being violation free.

If I understand the SAA rules for scrutiny of OLC logs a pilot that
flys 1000k in the blue and lands 10 seconds after sunset, an infraction
that would draw no attention from FAA, would be asked to withdraw the
flight. Another pilot that flew 1000k in streeting conditions, and
used the clouds to their best advantage, and landed 10 seconds before
sunset would get full credit for the flight.

The difference between the flights is that SSA can determine sunset
time and landing time to one second accuracy but SSA has no means to
detect proximity to cloud base.

How many people on this group that actually fly long cross countries
believe one of these flights is worth zero points? If so which one?

I am on record at my local club for speaking out about landing long
after sunset but remain a vocal opponent of discarding OLC flights
because of sunset time infractions since neither the means of
determining sunset time at the place of landing, nor the allowable
tolerance between sunset time and landing time, is defined.

If, and when, SSA decides to define these be sure to also specify the
maximum allowable logger interval for SSA OLC flights as well. I
currently run at 2 second interval but that obviously exposes me to far
more scrutiny than if I ran at the slowest allowable rate.

Andy