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OLC Scoring for 2011
After Tucson Soaring Club's first decent cross-country flights of the
2011 OLC season, we noted a change to the scoring. This introduces the category "OLC Plus" that combines the OLC Classic with 0.3 of the FAI triangle score. The intent is to encourage cross-country triangle flights rather than up-and-down ridge running. OLC now apparently no longer preserves the Classic and FAI cumulative scores, but they are displayed on individual flight pages. This change will be beneficial to us out west, who do mostly thermal flying, but will discount the score of the eastern ridge runners. Mike |
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On Oct 14, 10:45*am, Mike the Strike wrote:
After Tucson Soaring Club's first decent cross-country flights of the 2011 OLC season, we noted a change to the scoring. *This introduces the category "OLC Plus" that combines the OLC Classic with 0.3 of the FAI triangle score. *The intent is to encourage cross-country triangle flights rather than up-and-down ridge running. *OLC now apparently no longer preserves the Classic and FAI cumulative scores, but they are displayed on individual flight pages. This change will be beneficial to us out west, who do mostly thermal flying, but will discount the score of the eastern ridge runners. Mike It is getting worse than that. They also added draconian rules such as that to get speed point you must release less than 15km from the airport, thus eliminitating half of the clubs in California who often need to tow further than 15km to get to the lift. Also the flight details no longer showing the distance flown, only points. Sigh!! Ramy |
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On Oct 15, 10:36*am, Ramy wrote:
On Oct 14, 10:45*am, Mike the Strike wrote: After Tucson Soaring Club's first decent cross-country flights of the 2011 OLC season, we noted a change to the scoring. *This introduces the category "OLC Plus" that combines the OLC Classic with 0.3 of the FAI triangle score. *The intent is to encourage cross-country triangle flights rather than up-and-down ridge running. *OLC now apparently no longer preserves the Classic and FAI cumulative scores, but they are displayed on individual flight pages. This change will be beneficial to us out west, who do mostly thermal flying, but will discount the score of the eastern ridge runners. Mike It is getting worse than that. They also added draconian rules such as that to get speed point you must release less than 15km from the airport, thus eliminitating half of the clubs in California who often need to tow further than 15km to get to the lift. Also the flight details no longer showing the distance flown, only points. Sigh!! Ramy They also completely eliminated the FAI-OLC scoring for FAI triangles. Instead they added a new "BHC Challenge" but this one requires pre declaring the turnpoints. Ramy |
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OLC Scoring for 2011
On Oct 15, 12:36*pm, Ramy wrote:
On Oct 14, 10:45*am, Mike the Strike wrote: After Tucson Soaring Club's first decent cross-country flights of the 2011 OLC season, we noted a change to the scoring. *This introduces the category "OLC Plus" that combines the OLC Classic with 0.3 of the FAI triangle score. *The intent is to encourage cross-country triangle flights rather than up-and-down ridge running. *OLC now apparently no longer preserves the Classic and FAI cumulative scores, but they are displayed on individual flight pages. This change will be beneficial to us out west, who do mostly thermal flying, but will discount the score of the eastern ridge runners. Mike It is getting worse than that. They also added draconian rules such as that to get speed point you must release less than 15km from the airport, thus eliminitating half of the clubs in California who often need to tow further than 15km to get to the lift. Also the flight details no longer showing the distance flown, only points. Sigh!! Ramy I just pulled up a flight today and it shows the distance flown for both the "Classic" scoring and "FAI" scoring. Personally I think a cool feature that could be added to the OLC would be to allow member comments on flights. Many times I've wished I could post an attaboy or ask questions about a particular interesting flight that I came across. |
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On Oct 15, 12:39*pm, Tony wrote:
On Oct 15, 12:36*pm, Ramy wrote: On Oct 14, 10:45*am, Mike the Strike wrote: After Tucson Soaring Club's first decent cross-country flights of the 2011 OLC season, we noted a change to the scoring. *This introduces the category "OLC Plus" that combines the OLC Classic with 0.3 of the FAI triangle score. *The intent is to encourage cross-country triangle flights rather than up-and-down ridge running. *OLC now apparently no longer preserves the Classic and FAI cumulative scores, but they are displayed on individual flight pages. This change will be beneficial to us out west, who do mostly thermal flying, but will discount the score of the eastern ridge runners. Mike It is getting worse than that. They also added draconian rules such as that to get speed point you must release less than 15km from the airport, thus eliminitating half of the clubs in California who often need to tow further than 15km to get to the lift. Also the flight details no longer showing the distance flown, only points. Sigh!! Ramy I just pulled up a flight today and it shows the distance flown for both the "Classic" scoring and "FAI" scoring. Personally I think a cool feature that could be added to the OLC would be to allow member comments on flights. *Many times I've wished I could post an attaboy or ask questions about a particular interesting flight that I came across.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - There is no longer a running total for FAI score as it used to be. However I think there is some sense in combining the scores. And at least the distance will be optimized correctly without taking into a account the penalty for the last 2 legs. Everything is explained he http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...ssz1010#101015 It also explains the 15km limit for speed points. Apparently, pure gliders never take more than 15km tows in Germany, so it made perfectly sense to them to limit the start to 15km to be more "fair", yet at the same time completely eliminating scores for many clubs in Western US. What can I say... Another good/bad news, depend on your point of view, is replacing the Tuesday deadline with a sliding 48 hours window. Ramy |
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Another good/bad news, depend on your point of view, is replacing the
Tuesday deadline with a sliding 48 hours window. Ramy- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I just found out about the 48 hour rule for posting after landing. Tried to claim the Wed flight on Friday. I think an appropriate "Rule have changed this year" notice on the log in page would have been helpful. I'm not sure if the 48 hour rule is better than the Tuesday deadline. Will definitely have to find a WiFi when away from the home field on Soarfari's. Randy |
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"LOV2AV8" wrote in message ... Another good/bad news, depend on your point of view, is replacing the Tuesday deadline with a sliding 48 hours window. Ramy- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I just found out about the 48 hour rule for posting after landing. Tried to claim the Wed flight on Friday. I think an appropriate "Rule have changed this year" notice on the log in page would have been helpful. I'm not sure if the 48 hour rule is better than the Tuesday deadline. Will definitely have to find a WiFi when away from the home field on Soarfari's. Randy I guess we will have to make a daily drive into Moore, ID when flying out of the King Mountain Glider Park. (http://www.kingmountaingliderpark.com) That should be easier next summer. I have been informed that the new bridge is finished and the road to the glider park will be paved prior to next years "soarfari." |
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On Oct 16, 6:58*am, LOV2AV8 wrote:
Another good/bad news, depend on your point of view, is replacing the Tuesday deadline with a sliding 48 hours window. Ramy- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I just found out about the 48 hour rule for posting after landing. Tried to claim the Wed flight on Friday. *I think an appropriate "Rule have changed this year" notice on the log in page would have been helpful. *I'm not sure if the 48 hour rule is better than the Tuesday deadline. *Will definitely have to find a WiFi when away from the home field on Soarfari's. Randy Those who missed the deadline can email OLC and ask them to accept it. I am pretty sure they will and after receiving many requests on a daily basis they may realize that a better notification is due. Speaking of notification, I would have expected the SSA-OLC committe to say something. Ramy |
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