OLC 2005: The fat lady sings!
Hi everyone,
OLC 2005 is done and dusted. All that remains is to consider the results and to thank everyone for their support.
CGC placed 20th worldwide out of 1177 competing clubs, and we were the best club in the south hemisphere. Our 22 pilots flew 99 271 kms in 213 flights (the winning club needed 48 pilots for its 213550 km in 503 flights)
On individual basis worldwide it is noteworthy that we had 3 pilots in the top 20 pilots (out of 8920 pilots!!).
Alan O'Regan placed 11th with 5325 pts, Reinhold Lawrenz 12th with 5313 pts and Martin Grunert 17th with 5101 pts. The contestants included the regular bunch from Argentina.
Alan and Rheinhold placed 2nd and 3rd in Africa, with Martin in 6th place.
We had 1st places in the Southern Hemisphere FAI Centenary Contest by Alan in the Standard Class and Peter Farrell in the 15m class whilst I flew a borrowed Astir to 1st place in the club class (thanks to those who supported me). Not to be forgotten is the second place by Martin in the open class and the 7th place by Adriaan Hepburn in the 18m class.
Thank you everyone and well done to those top pilots (we will be chasing you).
May we have just as good a season in 2006, and keep on posting those claims (16 pts more and we would have been 19th).
Regards
Sven
EY
OLC 2005 is done and dusted. All that remains is to consider the results and to thank everyone for their support.
CGC placed 20th worldwide out of 1177 competing clubs, and we were the best club in the south hemisphere. Our 22 pilots flew 99 271 kms in 213 flights (the winning club needed 48 pilots for its 213550 km in 503 flights)
On individual basis worldwide it is noteworthy that we had 3 pilots in the top 20 pilots (out of 8920 pilots!!).
Alan O'Regan placed 11th with 5325 pts, Reinhold Lawrenz 12th with 5313 pts and Martin Grunert 17th with 5101 pts. The contestants included the regular bunch from Argentina.
Alan and Rheinhold placed 2nd and 3rd in Africa, with Martin in 6th place.
We had 1st places in the Southern Hemisphere FAI Centenary Contest by Alan in the Standard Class and Peter Farrell in the 15m class whilst I flew a borrowed Astir to 1st place in the club class (thanks to those who supported me). Not to be forgotten is the second place by Martin in the open class and the 7th place by Adriaan Hepburn in the 18m class.
Thank you everyone and well done to those top pilots (we will be chasing you).
May we have just as good a season in 2006, and keep on posting those claims (16 pts more and we would have been 19th).
Regards
Sven
EY
posted by CGC Reporter at 11.10.05
1 Comments:
Looking at the stats more closely,
At CGC
7 of 20 pilots (35%) recording flights flew 77% of the distance logged to achieve 20th place, with two pilots (10%) flying 30% of the total logged (Sven and Rheinhold)
At Rocky Mt Soaring
5 of 16 pilots (31%) recording flights flew 75.5% of the distance logged to achieve 17th place, with 1 pilot (6%) flying 34% of total logged (Hans Binder)
At Alpenflugzentrum Unterwossen
16 of 48 pilots (30%) recording flights flew 77% of the distance logged to achieve 1st place, with 4 pilots (8%) flying 33% of the total.
Based on this small sample from last seasons’ OLC competition for clubs, the standings in the club competition are built on 10% or less of the competing pilots in a club and the bulk of the score is achieved by 30% to 35% of the competing pilots. Our profile statistically is almost the same as the winning club except the bulk of our score was made by a larger group (35% vs 30%) of our pilots and it took 10% of the total to make 30% of the score instead of 8% for the winners.
What can we learn from this?
We need to spread the load further if possible. It seems obvious that each of the 3 clubs analysed has a core of not more than 5 pilots who drive the program and in some cases (Canada) 1 inspired (and retired?) pilot who just can’t stay on the ground.
Given the amount of trail blazing that the top CGC pilots have done in all lift conditions, anyone interested in cross country flying has a number of possible routes to consider on any given day and has the benefit of numerous OLC traces for that route, to provide some foresight into what to expect on the day. We should see an increasing number of pilots accounting for 75% of our score and a concomitant rise in the total score, for the same number of pilots competing. We should also be looking for ways to improve on safety for cross country pilots by identifying safe landing areas in all quadrants in the event of land outs and developing ‘bottle height’ basics (thanks Allan) for specific legs, as well as carrying on with the FLARM program and our very own air to air reporting system enroute.
This competition provides a barometer for the development of the Boland Soaring area and the CGC as well as providing a scale against which to measure personal skill development. Thanks Sven for beating the drum and leading from the front!
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