Night lights, night flights, OLC and records

When I formulated the Tuesday evening rule "A flight has to be scored at
the latest on the Tuesday following the flight." many years ago, the
intension was to be able to have the final scoring for the weekend on
Wednesday morning, so that it can be published in the newspapers by
Thursday when it is still worthwhile to print.

Unfortunately the press was never informed as planned.

The Tuesday evening rule came also in handy when I wrote the original
rules for the OLC-league, because we could provide the final scoring the
the round on Wednesday morning. Unfortunately this is too late now,
because the local newspaper wants the information at the latest on
Monday afternoon.

Hans Trautenberg






5Z schrieb:

On Oct 8, 9:30 am, "Doug Haluza" wrote:
For OLC 2007, the deadline will be changed to 2400 local time on
Tuesday, instead of 2400z to allow Western Hemisphere pilots more time
to claim. The Tuesday deadline is for flights through Monday. Flights
on Tuesday have until the following Tuesday to be claimed.

It's unfortunate that the deadline can't just be "7 days aftrer the
flight" instead of this Tuesday limitation. As has been mentioned many
times before, this penalizes the pilot who completes a flight on
Tuesday, but far away from an internet connection.

-Tom