Night lights, night flights, OLC and records

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

Hi Tom,

I agree that it would be easier if you had 1 week to upload. I would prefer
that as well. But you are slightly incorrect about pilots flying on
Tuesdays. They have the most time possible - until the following Tuesday at
midnight. It is pilots that fly on Monday that only have about 24 hours to
post their flights.

Paul Remde

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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

5Z wrote:

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.

The reason for not doing this, according to the OLC person that answered
my question about it, was to encourage the weekend (when most flights
occure) flights to be posted promptly. I'd prefer 7 days (or at least 3
days), too, since when I'm traveling in the motorhome, I might not
always get to an Internet connection in time, but it seems like a
adequate reason for the OLC purposes.

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On Oct 8, 8:05 pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
The reason for not doing this, according to the OLC person that answered
my question about it, was to encourage the weekend (when most flights
occure) flights to be posted promptly. I'd prefer 7 days (or at least 3
days), too, since when I'm traveling in the motorhome, I might not
always get to an Internet connection in time, but it seems like a
adequate reason for the OLC purposes.

Hmm, here's a thought for encouraging prompt submission: after 2-3
days, the score is reduced by 20% per day, so after 7-8 days, the score
is zero - or perhaps stops at 50, thus allowing very late claims to
keep track of personal distance achievements, but the score is
essentially worthless. Still does nothing to aid someone "on safari"
and far from the internet for an extended period of time.

-Tom

The new OLC 2007 Claim Form should be much more dial-up friendly, since
it does not need to dowload the entire airport database, which includes
13,000 airports in the US.

It may also be possible to upload from a Windows Mobile phone, or
PocketPC, with an aftermarket browser replacement.


5Z wrote:
On Oct 8, 8:05 pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
The reason for not doing this, according to the OLC person that answered
my question about it, was to encourage the weekend (when most flights
occure) flights to be posted promptly. I'd prefer 7 days (or at least 3
days), too, since when I'm traveling in the motorhome, I might not
always get to an Internet connection in time, but it seems like a
adequate reason for the OLC purposes.

Hmm, here's a thought for encouraging prompt submission: after 2-3
days, the score is reduced by 20% per day, so after 7-8 days, the score
is zero - or perhaps stops at 50, thus allowing very late claims to
keep track of personal distance achievements, but the score is
essentially worthless. Still does nothing to aid someone "on safari"
and far from the internet for an extended period of time.

-Tom

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