On Mar 13, 7:32*pm, Chip Bearden wrote:
Speaking of hijacking, you guys have hijacked this thread. Take it
outside.

For the record, though, while the OLC is a justifiably popular form of
competition, it's not racing in the classic head-to-head fashion.
Technically, sanctioned contests are not all head-to-head racing,
either, as whenever an area-type task is called. But at least we all
launch from the same location and mostly return there having flown in
the same geographical envelope and overall weather system. Such is not
the case with the OLC, as innovative and challenging as it is.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
U.S.A.

Chip,

If I may come back inside for a moment. I think you just hit the nail
on the head with this post. I do not claim that OLC is a competition/
race between everyone posting flights on a particular day. I am
suggesting that the OLC traces posted by the group of guys I fly with,
that take off, and hopefully land back at the same place, are "racing"
and in "competition" with each other.

Kirk is right; although I do not fly out of NM, where I do fly is in
the mountains and yes we do get high and yes we do go far, and no, to
claim that I beat someone flying in conditions lacking such veracity
would not be accurate. In the context of a group of guys flying from a
common location, I posit that racing can take place without it being
sanctioned or requiring entry fees and 2 weeks of vacation in order to
participate.

And Herb.............come out west, fly the peaks with us.

Brad