OLC Scoring for 2011
On Oct 15, 10:36*am, Ramy wrote:
On Oct 14, 10:45*am, Mike the Strike wrote:
After Tucson Soaring Club's first decent cross-country flights of the
2011 OLC season, we noted a change to the scoring. *This introduces
the category "OLC Plus" that combines the OLC Classic with 0.3 of the
FAI triangle score. *The intent is to encourage cross-country triangle
flights rather than up-and-down ridge running. *OLC now apparently no
longer preserves the Classic and FAI cumulative scores, but they are
displayed on individual flight pages.
This change will be beneficial to us out west, who do mostly thermal
flying, but will discount the score of the eastern ridge runners.
Mike
It is getting worse than that. They also added draconian rules such as
that to get speed point you must release less than 15km from the
airport, thus eliminitating half of the clubs in California who often
need to tow further than 15km to get to the lift.
Also the flight details no longer showing the distance flown, only
points.
Sigh!!
Ramy
They also completely eliminated the FAI-OLC scoring for FAI triangles.
Instead they added a new "BHC Challenge" but this one requires pre
declaring the turnpoints.
Ramy
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