Ray Lovinggood wrote:
While Gordon Boettger had a fantastic flight, the OLC
web page

http://www2.onlinecontest.org/olcphp...ng.php?olc=olc
-usa&spr=en

shows two other nice flights. Pat Martin flying a
DG 505 and Robert Spielman in a 1-26D! The OLC website
scored him with 706.62 km!!! In a 1-26!

Nicely done, Robert!

If an old Kestrel can go 1950 km, and an old 1-26 can go 706 km, why
aren't there a dozen of the "good" gliders out there going great
distances? Or, maybe, Gordon, Pat, and Robert are just exceptional pilots?

I suspect a lot of pilots don't think about flying "outside the box"
(wave window or glider operating area), and are still stuck on the idea
wave flying is only about going high.

I do know of one other experienced pilot that attempted wave XC that
day, but had difficulties with too much cloud preventing an exceptional
flight, so it probably wasn't an "easy" day.

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Eric Greenwell
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