Seriously, what does the OLC offer that people find attractive? I’m trying to understand, but I just don’t get it.

If one looks at worldwide or countrywide daily results, they see that the score sheet is dominated by long, fast flights out of well-known soaring meccas. Flights from ordinary sites are noticeable for being in the bottom half of the daily score sheet. Nothing fun in that result…

At a single club, if several guys go out together to do an XC task that is long enough to involve several air masses, someone who simply rides back and forth along a single cloud street over the club as long as he can might beat them on the club OLC score sheet. Nothing fun there, either…

Again at a single club, at the end of the year it’s common to see that the pilot who is at the top of the score sheet was able to fly several times a week and has posted longer and faster flights than other pilots who could only fly once a week or once every other week. Again, nothing fun there…

Because of observations like these, pilots at my club don’t take the OLC seriously. They’ll post their flights to OLC only if it’s easy or if they think of it. Now that OLC doesn’t allow the use of Cambridge loggers, and have removed the ability to post a flight to OLC from SeeYou, I think that a lot of our pilots won’t bother to post their flights on OLC anymore..

Is there something about OLC that we’re missing?

-John