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Old January 18th 17, 03:27 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Bruce Hoult
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Default Average OLC flown distance by glider

On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 5:09:14 PM UTC+3, Jacopo Romei wrote:
i think there are too many variables to draw a reliable conclusion


That's the reason why GliderReview aggregates a few for each glider, including "fuzzy" ones like comments and editors' review.

i am also starting to think that you'd be
surprised how far a specific glider can be pushed


Well, that would be related to *maximum* distance, not to *average* distance.


Maximum can be an untypical outlier.

75th percentile, or 90th percentile would be interesting, assuming there are enough flights. (and the corresponding 25th or 10% percentile)