SSA OLC Region for Flight Claim

Greg Arnold wrote:
Doug Haluza wrote:
"pilots who did not bother to select the correct region on their claim."
Doug, don't you think that statement is rather unfair to pilots who
are trying to do their best to make sense of the poorly written and
confusing OLC rules? I realize that the OLC is a volunteer effort, but
I don't see why the OLC seems to blame everyone but itself for its
deficiencies. The Cambridge logger problem, for example, was blamed on
Cambridge and SeeYou, rather than on the OLC ( which could have simply
set up its software to validate the CAI file, then itself converted to
an IGC file).

No, my point was that Region 1 in particular has a number of flights
made by pilots who neither live, nor flew there. So it is not a matter
of confusion, where they didn't know what was the right thing to do,
they apparently did nothing, and let their claim go with the first
choice in the list.

Doug Haluza wrote:
Greg Arnold wrote:
Doug Haluza wrote:
"pilots who did not bother to select the correct region on their claim."
Doug, don't you think that statement is rather unfair to pilots who
are trying to do their best to make sense of the poorly written and
confusing OLC rules? I realize that the OLC is a volunteer effort, but
I don't see why the OLC seems to blame everyone but itself for its
deficiencies. The Cambridge logger problem, for example, was blamed on
Cambridge and SeeYou, rather than on the OLC ( which could have simply
set up its software to validate the CAI file, then itself converted to
an IGC file).

No, my point was that Region 1 in particular has a number of flights
made by pilots who neither live, nor flew there. So it is not a matter
of confusion, where they didn't know what was the right thing to do,
they apparently did nothing, and let their claim go with the first
choice in the list.

Perhaps they didn't realize the Region value was being used for
anything? For example, I didn't think it was being used for anything,
and until Greg pointed it out, I didn't even know there was Region
selection on the SSA OLC page! I just entered Region 8, because that's
the region I'm in. I didn't have a clue that it was supposed to be the
region of the _takeoff_ airport, and how could I? It wasn't in the
rules, and people that don't follow RAS still won't know about it if
they use SeeYou, as I do, or don't notice the OLC wording change.

This is a like a rules change in mid-season, so maybe emails should be
sent to every competitor informing them of it, and the rules on the
websites should be amended to make it clear what the Region entry is
supposed to be.

Speaking as a pilot with 10 flights "mis-regioned" ...

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