Happy March from Tony Condon

That is odd. I thought OLC split the flight up into 6 equal times. I guess they screwed up on this one.
legs 4-6 were basically my traffic pattern at Paris. Legs 1-3 were the flight there.

On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 3:54:07 PM UTC-6, Soartech wrote:
That is odd. I thought OLC split the flight up into 6 equal times. I guess they screwed up on this one.
legs 4-6 were basically my traffic pattern at Paris. Legs 1-3 were the flight there.

no they optimize the distance in 6 legs. equal time has nothing to do with it

On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 5:13:58 PM UTC-5, Tony wrote:
On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 3:54:07 PM UTC-6, Soartech wrote:
That is odd. I thought OLC split the flight up into 6 equal times. I guess they screwed up on this one.
legs 4-6 were basically my traffic pattern at Paris. Legs 1-3 were the flight there.

no they optimize the distance in 6 legs. equal time has nothing to do with it

The leg after that 5.6 knot thermal showed 94 mph! Wow! 21 knot tailwind and TAS were speeding you along faster than some power planes. Great job. I wish I had my Cirrus out there to tag along on some of those epic flights. Great job.

Lane
XF

I was usually seeing groundspeeds in the 90-100 mph range during the flight. I think I saw as high as 140mph before I crossed the finish line.

On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 4:40:32 PM UTC-8, MNLou wrote:
Did everyone see that Tony celebrated March 1 by heading downwind for over 500 km?

I think his latest RAS post was probably from on the ground NE of Dallas.

Lou

dang son you just pointed it south and hauled butt.

no they optimize the distance in 6 legs. equal time has nothing to do with it
Tony,
Since you seem to understand this and OLC offers no explanation for any of their calculations that I can find please explain what is meant by "optimize the distance". Why isn't the distance split into 6 segments?

From the rules:

4.3.1 OLC Classic Course
After the flight, a departure point, up to five turn points and a finish point are positioned on the recorded flight path in such a way that the raw point score, from the departure point round the turn points to the finish point, is a great as possible and the departure altitude is no more than 1000m above the finish altitude.

My flight was split into 6 segments, it's just that the first three were really long and the last three really short. Breaking a straight line into segments doesn't make it longer.