Le mardi 17 janvier 2017 10:32:44 UTC-5, Jacopo Romei a écritÂ*:
Hello everybody,

as a newbie, I often find myself wondering
- how far a specific glider can be pushed
- how far a specific glider can be pushed by *its* average pilot

The second point is very important because, as obvious as it may sound, no glider "gets there" alone and it surely must be matched by a pilot with related skills.

By the way, end-to-end, I thought that crunching & aggregating some yearly OLC data, I could find a relevant answer.

As of today, on gliderreview.com every glider is shown along with its average flight lenght in the previous year. That allows for anyone to get both information: how far is any glider usually flown and, most important, how far outside of my comfort zone any glider is.

Sure this is based on OLC-uploaded flights only, but still any statistics is based on sampling and OLC to me is a quite reliable and representative data population. In other words: crunching 14 thousands flights will be enough for me to get the idea. ;-)

Enjoy!

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Jacopo

Hi
Some variable are impossible to know,control.
I post much shorter flight, and distance, now because I am 75 but still with
the same LS6. After 4.5 hours concentration is more difficult and energy
is gone. But 10 years ago 6.5 hours was easier. I still fly the same number
of flights each year.
Regards
Gilles