Eric Greenwell wrote:
Ramy wrote:
Well, SeeYou shows the sunset time, so I guess this is what Doug is
using.
Paul, your suggetion will work for short to medium or yoyo tasks when
one can plan to land way before sunset or can abort the task. But this
does not work for long O&R and triangle tasks, especially in the great
basin, where weaker conditions on course can slow you down
significantly. When this happens there are only two choices, to fly
back home and potentially land after sunset, or landout in the middle
of nowhere before sunset, hope you don't break anything, then spend a
freezing night in the cockpit waiting for your retrieve.

We'd all choose to fly home, but we don't have to post that flight on
the OLC. Doug isn't suggesting you do something stupid to get some OLC
points, but he is asking you don't post flights that clearly go beyond
sunset.

Just one thing, it's not just me asking. When I got drafted for the
SSA-OLC Committee assignment earlier this year, this was all a done
deal. I had no part in making it at the SSA level. And I had no part in
making it at the field level either, because I have been landing (just)
before sunset even before the OLC existed.