Calling the contest and with it the participants intellectually lazy is quite arrogant. Table 1 contains data extracted from the ocl web site. Glider competition 101 seminar southern eagles soaring. Registration can only be made online via the forms provided at contest. Online contest olc the worldwide leading database and scoring system for gliding. However, there is also criticism against the platform, especially in germany. Every flight trace can be viewed and the igc file can be downloaded. This is not just my opinion, this feedback comes from the senior customs official in great falls. It is fun to download and view other flights from the olc web site. Home autism society the autism society, the nations leading grassroots autism organization, exists to improve the lives of all affected by autism. The online contest olc is the worlds largest decentralized soaring contest and constitutes an information system for crosscountry flying which is updated on a daily basis.
Sailplane and gliding octnov 2002 68 pg free download. Anyone could download the loggerfile from the 2,453 km world record flight to their pc and reconstruct the task using flightplanning software flight planner, strepla, seeyou. The goal of the olc has been to run a contest that is easy to enter and encourages cross country soaring. The goal of the aerokurier online contest olc is a timely scoring of crosscountry flights, free from the burden of flight declarations, to allow an easy and uptodate comparison of decentralised cross country flights. By their registration the participants agree to the competition rules. I like the app a lot and am ready to fly with it this week. At right you can see the backissues of my soaring news email newsletters. That contest was recently held in lake keepit, australia. He would prefer to treat an emergency as an emergency, rather than see each overflight creating an operations exception. You can find more information and purchase topmeteo on. The olc has established itself worldwide as a useful portal for displaying and analyzing crosscountry flights.
If you want your devices to be identified, join the ogn database. Well bring in guest pilots to fly with people who are new to cross country flying. Onlinecontest federation aeronautique internationale. Do you think being 200 km from home at 6 oclock with no retrieve crew compares to being there with a full crew in chase. So how risky is an hour of motorcycle riding vs an hour of gliding. These flights are displayed in grey letters and without a ranking number in the daily score only. Most good analysis try to compare activities hour for hour. If you include the millions who use scooters as their daily commute in the far east puttering along at 30kmh, then motorcycling would be considered as pretty low risk. The aerokurier online contest olc, a worldwide decentralized soaring competition for glider, hang glider, and paraglider pilots. Once again paul had his astir out and this time he was the one who had a long flight of a bit over 2 hours. Olc submitted flights can be used for fai badge claims. And the methods and processes are in an experimental phase for hang gliding and paragliding.
Airspace violations the olc organizers have to assume that the participants in the contest will not violate restricted airspace during their flights. I enjoyed creating them, but it took many dozens of hours for each edition. Huckspedition hang gliding and paragliding association of. The olc is operated by segelflugszene gemeinnutzige gmbh, a german notforprofit founded in 2000. This year, daily prizes were of the more practical type such as fans, torches, etc, rather than bottles of wine. A motorglider flown responsibly has only two advantages over a pure glider, both conveniences and neither a performance advantage. Contest glider plans download model aeronautics by. Click on the subscribe link at the top right corner. Ward hindman the city college of new york, new york city ny usa 10031 visiting scholar 200506, colorado state university, ft. Soaring australia 201104 by peter wennersten issuu.
Corona still has a big influence as i read in their daily blog. In my experience olc is a path to contest flying for many new pilots and it makes them naturally becoming interested in going to regionals. Keith willis was third in the world in the olc contest on sunday, well done to. Or select the desired radio frequency or transponder mode from the back seat of a 2seat sailplane when the radio display win innwa free download head online contest org olc 2 0 gliding is in the front seat. Olc the worldwide leading onlinexcountry contest for hang gliding, paragliding, soaring and model gliding. A meteorological system for planning and analyzing soaring. Emerging technologies, the internet and projects including the open glider network ogn glidernet. This site allows the visitor to download cumulative data to in several formats.
A worlds class pilot has been running seminars at my club. In other news recently, solo pilot, david tickner has converted into the clubs szd51 junior, xoa. That said, he recorded a couple of 8kt rides and got up to 8,000. Pilots world wide can send their track logs to this website and get a score for it. The competition ran very smoothly thanks to neils planning and delegation and i. Scores are posted daily throughout the contest year, which begins in october. Finally on gliding club confidential, we go back to australia for a look at the adelaide soaring.
It is run from germany by segelflugszene and sponsored by aerokurier. In world gliding championships team flying and communication with ground crew is. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. Is it the last word from the cauca valley this season. I gave up flying in site contests olc is different because i was almost killed in one, and decided. The ssf trustees then looked to see if there was a correlation between the number of accidents and the number of flights reported to the on line contest.
The increase of the number of crosscountry flights is another goal of the olc. They get a daily report with the incoming aviators, and they try to plan their day around it. With two days left in the contest, we are still being very careful with social distancing, no pilots meeting, lots of hand washing and dinners being served with volunteers in gloves. Ssa contest forms and resources soaring society of america. Gps have replaced the traditional photo verification during the dawn of the new millennium. This is done to as much as possible eliminate the issues pointed out about the frequency of the activity or the number of people doing it. New zealand gliding guru and author g dale tells us about the thermal engine his critically acclaimed set of gliding instruction manuals.
One factor that appears to have played a significant role is the weather. Investigation identified the glider pilot from olc records. Students can also be encouraged to download flight traces off the internet, i. Any glider pilots interested in learning how take the leap into racing now or in the future. He recommends hardly ever slowing to less than 60 knots, even flying through a good thermal, and says that at. Online contest olc the worldwide leading database and scoring system for gliding, paragliding and hanggliding. As usual, eric was busy making sure pete and i got flights in and got a late start to the day. The online contest olc is run from germany and provides a free scoring from gliding pilots and clubs worldwide on a daily basis.
In case you keep important waypoints in your gps download and save them at home before the competition. Flights which have been registered on a flight recorder are uploaded via an internet gateway and appear immediately in the ranking. A look at the daily results over the course of any gliding world championship involving some of the best glider pilots in the world will show you that even the best pilots have bad days. The data on this site can be ambiguous in certain situations and the displayed position of an aircraft or glider can be displaced relative to the actual position. Whats really wrong with olc is that they do not separate pure glider performance from motorglider flights, and that they use daec handicaps that are not designed to handicap different classes, in addition of doing crappy job of handicapping anything at all. On sunday the wind was straight down the the main runway from the south, which gave our pilots very good winch launches. A meteorological system for planning and analyzing soaring flights in colorado usa edward e. I want to start out with a disclaimer about the accuracy of this article, as this is very new to me. An analysis of online contest olc data shows a spike in reported flights that corespondents with this increase in insurance claims. Over the course of the contest and practice day we flew a total of 1895 crosscountry miles and spent 43. Goals the goal of the aerokurier online contest olc is a timely scoring of crosscountry flights, free from the burden of flight declarations, to allow an easy and uptodate comparison of decentralised cross country flights. Ill add more impressions and thoughts after i get some time with it in the air. Before raising an alert please contact us so we can interpret the data correctly.
Ironically, competition flying, which involves some of the best glider pilots around, is statistically one of the most dangerous activities in gliding. Select the first option weekly email and enter your name and email address and click subscribe. It was a little awkward to do away with the pilots meeting but now everyone is getting used to it. Dont forget to download the updated contest site files to. I have now replaced the newsletter with my soaring news facebook page. We do this by increasing public awareness about the daytoday issues faced by people on the spectrum, advocating for appropriate services for individuals across the lifespan, and providing the latest information regarding treatment, education. Canadian pilot posts illegal flight into us on olc. Get traffic statistics, seo keyword opportunities, audience insights, and competitive analytics for sac. Registering and claiming flights with the aerokurier online gliding contest the online contest olc is a worldwide computerscored glider contest. Huckspedition hang gliding and paragliding association. I want to be sure that you are happy with your soaring tools and i strive to help you get the most out of them. Support olc online learning consortium olc onlinelearningconsortium. Soaringnv olc weeks soaringnv is planning some cross country weeks with mentored flying and daily entrance of the scores on the olc on line contest. Segelflugzene onlinecompetition olc gliding australia.
The online contest olc is a worldwide computer scored glider contest. Segelflugszene translates as gliding scene in english. Although i dont see the next world gliding champion enjoying th e october. Seminar to prepare pilots to fly their first contest. Get free, customized ideas to outsmart competitors and take your search marketing results to the next level with alexas site overview tool. Rose city soaring has a zeroincident record thanks to our instructors drilling in safety, having safety meetings before first flight of each day, and the safety conscience and heads up of our pilots, and we want to keep our spotless safety record that way.
The olc web page allows individuals to download flight statistics showing data for different regions. Flight claims with other than igc approved flight recorders get a blue v, provided the generated igc file gets a positive validation by an olc approved software. We flew 9 out of 10 contest days the wind was blowing 50 mph so they cancelled one day. These are some points about iglide that i thought were most noteworthy so far.
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