On Friday, October 25, 2019 at 8:59:25 AM UTC-5, wrote:
On Friday, October 25, 2019 at 8:17:21 AM UTC-5, 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.

On the Condor contest front, US Nightly Soaring flies at 9pm EST every day except Monday. On Monday, there is Monday Night Soaring at 7pm and 10pm.

Winter is coming... time to get the joysticks out.

All the best,
Daniel

Look at the flight in your region for OLC Champion for the last few years. Study the winner's and runner up's posted 6 flights to see where they went, how fast, what time of year and their circling percentage. Call them up and have they tell you what's important to get a high score IN YOUR REGION. Turn in all of your flights. Start early and decisively even under a low basis. Watch the sky, call other clubs on the radio while you are up to get their conditions. Fly long legs without deviations, course changes cost you time. Decide to turn for home when you can still safely do so. Try to minimize your circling percentage, this will make you faster (Speed OLC) and allow for longer distance flights.
Have fun...
Herb, J7