OLC participation and "red marks"

Frank Whiteley wrote:
The older Cambridges are covered in the other threads and pilots need
to familiarize themselves with the procedures. The OLC remains a
shifting paradigm, but it's pretty cool.

At the SSA Governors and Record Keepers breakfast at the convention, we
discussed the pros and cons and wants. The regional filters were set
up without discussion or purpose. To me, as an SSA state governor,
regional filters are pretty useless. There also are no plans for
regional awards, so I see little point in regional filters. State
filters I would find useful and would enough granularity in searches to
query for flights originating in this state, terminating in this state,
and both originating and terminating in this state. However, there are
'borderline' soaring sites that actually fly their flights in adjacent
states and regions, just to complicate things. It may be for some of
us that raw data file access would be the best alternative in the near
term.

Frank Whiteley


A regional filter is useful for Region 12 (Southern California), as
California essentially is two separate soaring areas.