Average OLC flown distance by glider

Le mardi 17 janvier 2017 10:32:44 UTC-5, Jacopo Romei a écritÂ*:
Hello everybody,

as a newbie, I often find myself wondering
- how far a specific glider can be pushed
- how far a specific glider can be pushed by *its* average pilot

The second point is very important because, as obvious as it may sound, no glider "gets there" alone and it surely must be matched by a pilot with related skills.

By the way, end-to-end, I thought that crunching & aggregating some yearly OLC data, I could find a relevant answer.

As of today, on gliderreview.com every glider is shown along with its average flight lenght in the previous year. That allows for anyone to get both information: how far is any glider usually flown and, most important, how far outside of my comfort zone any glider is.

Sure this is based on OLC-uploaded flights only, but still any statistics is based on sampling and OLC to me is a quite reliable and representative data population. In other words: crunching 14 thousands flights will be enough for me to get the idea. ;-)

Enjoy!

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Jacopo

Hi
Some variable are impossible to know,control.
I post much shorter flight, and distance, now because I am 75 but still with
the same LS6. After 4.5 hours concentration is more difficult and energy
is gone. But 10 years ago 6.5 hours was easier. I still fly the same number
of flights each year.
Regards
Gilles

Some variable are impossible to know,control.

You are referring to an inherent characteristic of mean values, which is affecting the interpretation of *any* mean ever calculated.

As long as I don't label that value something like "The Only Truth About This Glider" it is still fair enough that's just another meaningful fuzzy datum among TONS of other fuzzy ones: reviews, opinions, rumors and, it shows, even stall speed! :-)

Thanks for your feedback Gilles and enjoy your LS6!

On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 3:32:44 PM UTC, Jacopo Romei wrote:
Hello everybody,

as a newbie, I often find myself wondering
- how far a specific glider can be pushed
- how far a specific glider can be pushed by *its* average pilot

The second point is very important because, as obvious as it may sound, no glider "gets there" alone and it surely must be matched by a pilot with related skills.

By the way, end-to-end, I thought that crunching & aggregating some yearly OLC data, I could find a relevant answer.

As of today, on gliderreview.com every glider is shown along with its average flight lenght in the previous year. That allows for anyone to get both information: how far is any glider usually flown and, most important, how far outside of my comfort zone any glider is.

Sure this is based on OLC-uploaded flights only, but still any statistics is based on sampling and OLC to me is a quite reliable and representative data population. In other words: crunching 14 thousands flights will be enough for me to get the idea. ;-)

Enjoy!

--
Jacopo

We used to say in the 70's, tongue in cheek, "if you don't have talent you can buy wingspan or practice, practice", practice". Still hold true?

On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 10:32:44 AM UTC-5, Jacopo Romei wrote:
Hello everybody,

as a newbie, I often find myself wondering
- how far a specific glider can be pushed
- how far a specific glider can be pushed by *its* average pilot

The second point is very important because, as obvious as it may sound, no glider "gets there" alone and it surely must be matched by a pilot with related skills.

By the way, end-to-end, I thought that crunching & aggregating some yearly OLC data, I could find a relevant answer.

As of today, on gliderreview.com every glider is shown along with its average flight lenght in the previous year. That allows for anyone to get both information: how far is any glider usually flown and, most important, how far outside of my comfort zone any glider is.

Sure this is based on OLC-uploaded flights only, but still any statistics is based on sampling and OLC to me is a quite reliable and representative data population. In other words: crunching 14 thousands flights will be enough for me to get the idea. ;-)
Jacopo

Thanks for adding this. I would suggest that it would be good to be fully transparent and list your sources for the data. It might also be good to also list longest flight next to average, interesting trivia and it adds more information. Content is king, more info will drive more traffic to your site.

Thanks for adding this.

You welcome. Enjoy! :-)

it would be good to be fully transparent
and list your sources for the data.

Source is cited and weblinked already, driving the user to the OLC source report.

I added the histogram of flown distances on a per-glider basis.

http://www.gliderreview.com/

Now you can get into the details of how each glider is used by crosscountry pilots. When data are not too many you can even know the location which every single flight took off from, in order to get a better intepretation of the average flown distance.

Enjoy this new feature and, please, submit your review! I am eager to know what you know and *how you feel* about your glider!

http://www.gliderreview.com/write-a-review

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Jacopo

On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 11:44:07 AM UTC-5, Jacopo Romei wrote:
I added the histogram of flown distances on a per-glider basis.

http://www.gliderreview.com/

Now you can get into the details of how each glider is used by crosscountry pilots. When data are not too many you can even know the location which every single flight took off from, in order to get a better intepretation of the average flown distance.

Enjoy this new feature and, please, submit your review! I am eager to know what you know and *how you feel* about your glider!

http://www.gliderreview.com/write-a-review

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Jacopo

The histogram is great, you can get an idea of both average and outliers, and the details are great. On the interface it might be good to somehow indicate that it is a link - that is not currently very obvious.

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I'll improve that!

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Jacopo