On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 5:42:45 PM UTC-4, Mike the Strike wrote:
On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 12:11:31 AM UTC+1, wrote:
On Monday, April 26, 2021 at 7:07:22 PM UTC-4, Matthew Scutter wrote:
On Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 8:29:50 AM UTC+10, wrote:
I would like to know how others evaluate an OLC flight and determine the difficulty factor involved? I will hold my opinion until this has been truly debated. Old Bob
You won't believe it Bob, but the OLC does it for you and allocates points accordingly!
Matt, it must be a conspiracy! The question was how do you, not OLC, it flew right over your head.
Some years ago, OLC added bonus points for triangle flights after analyzing many cross-country flights - adding about 30% in points as I recall. Before that, points were based solely on distance and glider handicap.

This is a pretty rough guesstimate of evaluation - distance plus triangle bonus - but there are plenty of other variables left out.

Feel free to develop a new set of algorithms!

Mike
Mike, you are on the correct path. Old Bob