Three Hour OLC

On Dec 31, 9:19*am, S6 wrote:
On Dec 30, 11:52*pm, Greg Arnold wrote:





* One way to have a contest like this is to form a club called "Three
Hours", have all interested pilots join it, and check out the daily
results for the club.
The results would be handicapped and listed in order of top score for
the day, but unfortunately cumulative scores are another story.
Verification of start and finish within three hours, and ridicule of
the cheaters are other chores. I suppose a designated scorer could
download all the flights and cast the proper spells.
* However, OLC recently added a club league for the Southern
Hemisphere. With the proper persuasion, they may set up what you're
after.
Regarding persuasion, there seems to be no way to donate to OLC (from
USA) on the website this year.
* Bill has brought up a good point. OLC is the best thing for x-c
soaring since P-tubes were invented. This would be a way to include
pilots uncomfortable flying 6+ hours a day, just as handicapping
includes those with less than the latest equipment.
* This brings to mind a sticker that was on Bob Fitch's van:
Old age and treachery shall beat youth and skill.
Jim
Thanks for the replys. *It looks like the Canada three hour contest is
very close to what I have in mind. *If a large group would ask for
such a catagory maybe we could get it included in the OLC score sheet.

As an alternative, or in addition to posting flights on OLC, you might
consider setting up a "local contest." We do this in Northern
Illinois. Though many of our pilots also post to OLC, we still find
that the "local contest" structure provides a more satisfying overall
structure.

It's a bit disappointing to fly your heart out to do 150 miles in 1
knot thermals at 2500 feet -- a common occurrence around here -- and
then see that some guy who lives where there is decent weather did
1,000 miles that day. (Ok, move I hear you say!). It's more
challgenging, and much better preparation for real contests, to do a
real start, a real finish, and go to real turnpoints. Also, being able
to take more turnpoints allows us to a lot of cross country in
hopeless conditions, but stay close to home so retrieves aren't so
bad.

I wrote a "contest corner" a while back describing these efforts:

http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.c...l_contests.mht

There are many such contests around, and you can choose from their
ideas without reinventing the wheel. The Northern Illinois contest is
here

http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/john.c...h/Papers/#nisc

The central indiana club has a variant of the same idea

http://www.centralindianasoaringsociety.org/

A slightly different effort in New Jersey

http://home.netcom.com/~pappa3/

The Arizona Soaring association race series

http://www.asa-soaring.org/

The GTA (Georgia -Tennessee - Alabama) race series, with undoubtedly
the most colorful webpage

http://home.att.net/~g.t.a.race/

John Cochrane BB