On Friday, October 25, 2019 at 6:17:21 AM UTC-7, Mike N. wrote:
On Friday, October 25, 2019 at 4:00:39 AM UTC-4, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 8:20:34 PM UTC+2, Mike N. wrote:
I am looking for articles / videos on how to compete well on OLC.

How to get the best scoring, What type of tasks are better than others, or just working in OLC flying in general.

Any links to articles or videos, or whatever would be useful.

For others as well as myself I'm sure.


Get Condor and spend the winter practising against the best pilots in online competitions. If you can get into the top ten doing that you'll be in great shape for next season. You may have to fly at odd times though, because the best pilots are flying in EU time zone.

Also a good idea I will follow up on.

Mike,

If you want to score high on OLC, and I mean that you are regularly placing in the top 10 and winning some days, you have to go to a site that will support these kind of flights. In the US, that means Ely, NV and Moriarity, NM (TX can be good later in the season). And in Ely you will need a motorglider as there no longer is an operator providing tows (some have arranged for private tows, but this is limited). Just go back and see on OLC where the top flights are being flown. Then, you will have to be prepared to do long flights (7-10 hours), both physically and mentally. And you will have to prepare each day with a very thorough weather analysis. Finally, you just have to do it, trying and, sometimes, failing.
BTW, you will also have to be patient, willing to wait days or weeks for the optimal weather to appear.

Tom