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Old October 10th 06, 05:56 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Doug Haluza
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Default SSA-OLC Generation 2.0 - Submission deadlines.


Bert Willing wrote:
Real-time depending on what day of the week it is. For a flight on
Wednesday, I have 6 days time to submit, on a Tuesday, I have a couple of
hours if I'm lucky.

This Tuesday rule is complete bull****. Something like 3-5 days would make
sense.


Actually, the worst case is a flight on Monday--Tuesday flights have
until the following Tuesday. We did ask OLC for more time to claim, and
they agreed to move the deadline to Midnight local instead of 2400z.
But since the US has time zones all the way to the International Date
Line, in reality you should have until 1200z on Wed for US claims. So
in the worst case, you should have about 36 hours after a Monday flight
to claim. Sunday flights have about 60 hours and so on.

Also, we asked that the OLC accept claims after the deadline, but with
zero score. This appeared to be implemented in the beta test last week.
So we should be able to administratively approve late claims. Just put
a note in the pilot comment field to briefly explain the hardship, and
send a note to olcatssadotorg.