Submitting flights to the OLC

Greg Arnold wrote:
The OLC's love of pointless technology is well illustrated by
the 5 numbers you now must type in when you want to view a flight log.

I am making an assumption here, and it would be nice if an OLC
representative could respond...

The extra step needed to download a log is probably an attempt to
reduce the bandwidth of downloads from the site. It could be that they
were experiencing problems of folks downloading too many logs - maybe
with automated software.

Their solution was to use an interface that requires a human to view a
graphic and decode the text displayed before proceeding. There is also
a limit of 10 downloads a day as a friend who was having some usage
problems discovered a few weeks ago.

The limit of 10, if still there, could prove to be an issue for a club
where more than 10 flights are made in a day and one wants to compare
what happened between friends who all submit logs.

As for the issue of the G record, I agree that until it's proven that
someone is actually cheating, an "insecure" log should just be flagged
as such, and not denied.

-Tom