SSA OLC Region for Flight Claim

Eric Greenwell wrote:
Greg Arnold wrote:
Eric, I have been looking at flights by Region for some time. Find the
Region of choice in the box beneath the blue at the top of the OLC page.

It took me a long while to find it, because I'm accustomed to using the
"North America" button from the OLC home page (which doesn't show it),
rather than the "US" button. I like to see what the Canadians are up to.


However, I had thought this list was by the Region where pilots are
based, but it appears the list really is by Region where the flight
occurred.

It does seem like it, since selecting Region 8 (my region) shows the
Canadian pilots entered in our Regional contest, even though their
region is listed as "BC/AB". Their flights do not show up in the Canada
listing. I notice the Canadian page region selection includes "USA" (in
addition to AB/BC, SK/MB, etc), so maybe that's what the Canadians in
the Region 8 contest selected so it would appear in the US listing.

Thus, there is no way to get a list of all flights by pilots
in a region.

I am still puzzled about the intent of the Region selection. I've always
thought it was for the pilot's region. For Daily Score, region selection
seems to pick flights within the region, but for "Statistics:all
flights", the region selection seems to pick "by pilot", as all my
flights in several regions show up there.

I still can't find anything in the rules about what region you should
enter when submitting a flight, so I won't be changing what I'm doing.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA

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As a state governor, I requested a state filter (by pilot and or flight
origination), noting at the time the lack of much useful from the
regional filter from my perspective. There are soaring sites that
border regional boundaries. Though home airfield is in one region, the
flights are actually done largely in the adjacent region.

Importing into Excel was my solution. It allowed me to filter out
flights done out of state and limit awards to flights actually staring
within Colorado. Pre-filtering by having pilots file under their home
region, especially in the absence of any organized regional awards
effort is useful. If they file a flight out of region, it won't show
up in the pre-filter, but that's not an issue as the flight won't be
counted anyway.

I would like a filter that showed me any flight terminating in Colorado
(easier for this state than others) though. Like to know where roaming
pilots are arriving from.

Frank Whiteley