Average OLC flown distance by glider

On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 8:16:51 AM UTC+13, Jacopo Romei wrote:

Coming down the pipeline:
- longest flight
- average flight year by year in the past

I'm eager to see what the most successful pilots has done in one of the most reviled gliders (PW-5). I'd also like to see the longest flight in each year as this glider has fallen out of grace, and whether less successful pilots are flying it every year. Or maybe the average and longest flights will stay constant over time?

How about Bill Snead doing 841 km in his PW-5 on a straight out from near Austin, TX to Hugoton, KS. http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...htId=445970755



On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 10:54:08 PM UTC-6, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 8:16:51 AM UTC+13, Jacopo Romei wrote:

Coming down the pipeline:
- longest flight
- average flight year by year in the past

I'm eager to see what the most successful pilots has done in one of the most reviled gliders (PW-5). I'd also like to see the longest flight in each year as this glider has fallen out of grace, and whether less successful pilots are flying it every year. Or maybe the average and longest flights will stay constant over time?

On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 7:54:08 AM UTC+3, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 8:16:51 AM UTC+13, Jacopo Romei wrote:

Coming down the pipeline:
- longest flight
- average flight year by year in the past

I'm eager to see what the most successful pilots has done in one of the most reviled gliders (PW-5). I'd also like to see the longest flight in each year as this glider has fallen out of grace, and whether less successful pilots are flying it every year. Or maybe the average and longest flights will stay constant over time?

At 156 km in his database, it's beating the ASK-21 and Grob 103, which everyone loves.

At 156 km in his database, it's beating
the ASK-21 and Grob 103, which everyone loves.

Yes Bruce.
This is the *exactly* the "coup de théâtre" I am looking for by letting everybody compare this data among gliders.

Try enjoying the comparing featu
http://www.gliderreview.com/comparin...arszawska-pw-5

Obviously that doesn't necessarily mean that ASK 21 is harder to fly far than PW 5 -- because ASK 21's average could be affected by many other factors -- but it *definitely* means that PW 5 is capable of flights *that* long, which may be unexpected for a rookie like me listening to rumors only.

A good mix of opinions, rumors and data: that's what I am looking for by means of GliderReview. Enjoy!

[I need reviews! ;-) http://www.gliderreview.com/write-a-review]

Ciao

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Jacopo

On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 1:56:06 PM UTC+3, Jacopo Romei wrote:
At 156 km in his database, it's beating
the ASK-21 and Grob 103, which everyone loves.

Yes Bruce.
This is the *exactly* the "coup de théâtre" I am looking for by letting everybody compare this data among gliders.

Try enjoying the comparing featu
http://www.gliderreview.com/comparin...arszawska-pw-5

Obviously that doesn't necessarily mean that ASK 21 is harder to fly far than PW 5 -- because ASK 21's average could be affected by many other factors -- but it *definitely* means that PW 5 is capable of flights *that* long, which may be unexpected for a rookie like me listening to rumors only.

I don't know why it should be unexpected! The PW5 isn't as high performance a glider as a Discus or LS4 or even a Cirrus or Libelle, obviously. But it's very comparable to things such as the formerly much-loved Ka-6, in which lots of people used to regularly fly 300+ km.

I'm a pretty average pilot, but around 2000 I was taking a club PW5 to NZ contests with a dozen other PW5s and nearly as many Ka6s and tasks of 150 - 250 km. We had a lot of fun, and most people finished most of the tasks.

Bruce,

I was just describing the reason-why of the website feature, not discussing PW-5 performance. :-)

You seem the right person to review PW-5 though! Would you share your opinions about the ship in a review at the following link? http://www.gliderreview.com/glider/p...arszawska-pw-5

On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 2:40:26 PM UTC+3, Jacopo Romei wrote:
Bruce,

I was just describing the reason-why of the website feature, not discussing PW-5 performance. :-)

You seem the right person to review PW-5 though! Would you share your opinions about the ship in a review at the following link? http://www.gliderreview.com/glider/p...arszawska-pw-5

It's all looong ago. I haven't flown one since April 2010 (two flights), and before that one flight each in 2009 and 2007. Mostly I fly the Janus (until Dec 2007) and after that the DG1000.

While checking my logbook I found this entry:

255 03/01/01 WN 4:25 A P 207km task, 3:30 on task. I won the day!

59 km/h. pretty slow.

son_of_flubber,

I'm eager to see what the most successful pilots has done in one of the most reviled gliders (PW-5).


:-D I am eager too, but still GliderReview won't be covering all the possible data permutations about a glider, because its aim is *not* to be the next (and overlapping) "Glidopedia" but a tool to help choosing a glider to buy.

Stay tuned, though! :-)

son_of_flubber wrote:

I'm eager to see what the most successful pilots has done in one of the most reviled gliders (PW-5).


On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 11:47:53 PM UTC+13, Jacopo Romei wrote:

:-D I am eager too, but still GliderReview won't be covering all the possible data permutations about a glider, because its aim is *not* to be the next (and overlapping) "Glidopedia" but a tool to help choosing a glider to buy.

son_of_flubber replies:

So how do I export to a CSV spreadsheet the OLC data that you've boiled down?