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Adjusting your OLC pos?? Seems like I could get more distance.



 
 
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Old October 20th 08, 07:28 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
KevinFinke
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Default Adjusting your OLC pos?? Seems like I could get more distance.

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...htId=415267746

Reference the above flight from this last weekend. In late fall no
less. We had 7 private owner ships flying, but only 3 of us were
recording that day. There were some really fun flights by everyone.
Now back to the topic...

I submitted my flight but disagree with the optimization for the
flight. It appears that my start point is not the off tow release at
21:51:38 but rather some 10 plus minutes at 21:02:38. The distance
from my trace is approx 4.6 miles or 7.40 km. Now if I were to use
this as my start leg, and subtract off the last "optimized" leg of
3.74 miles, I'd have more distance points = 114.75, but less average
speed. I've tried adjusting the times on the OLC submittal page, but
can't get it to change. Since you don't get credit for your average
speed, wouldn't it be better to optimize for distance?

Anybody know how to get it to change? Or am I missing something?

And on a second note, is there some explanation for how to interpret
the statistics table. What do each of the columns mean? Some of them
are self explanatory, but I don't understand %Kurbel, Naufwinde, and
E? Does anyone know the equations behind the data? I'm guessing they
are related to thermalling, but I just can't figure them out.

Thanks!
-Kevin Finke
ASW 24 Prototype - N28KS
 




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