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IMPORTANT- Seeyou V's Strepla and airspace violations.
Yuliy Gerchikov wrote: I'd like to point out one self-contradiction and one outright outrageous assumption in this post. "Doug Haluza" wrote in message oups.com... The OLC is intended to be a public forum. One of the main purposes of the OLC is for pilots to be able to share their flight experiences with the entire worldwide soaring community (and anyone else who may be interested). This contradicts the following: I suspect that there are a lot of competition pilots who have received penalties in contests that they didn't think were fair. [confronting people] is not intended to be a punitive action to punish the individual, it is intended to protect the integrity of the competition. So is OLC a public forum, or a competition? If former, you will do the public a huge favour if you quit "protecting" forum's integrity. If latter, then yes, it should be controlled more strictly, but then don't call it "public" anymore -- only a fraction of pilots are interested in real contests. I believe the Online Contest is a contest, which is the same as a competition in my dictionary (if not it was misnamed by the organizers). The competitors post their flight logs to a public forum as part of the competition. There is no contradiction. FWIW, I have no interest in organized contests either (except as a spectator). My total contest experience conists of one day as seat ballast in the Sport's Class Nationals last year. I prefer to use my limited vacation days to fly in the best conditions possible, and I am fortunate enough to be able to do this. This is why I am such a big supporter of the OLC format. I was one of the few participants in the old r.a.s. League organized by Guenther Eichhorn, which never really took off. It was eventually surpassed by the OLC, in part because OLC used an automatic scoring algorithm based on IGC files. This was a major improvement in the decentralized competition format, and has won worldwide acceptance (except in Britan, where the BGC league was already well established). But posting IGC files to the public forum of the OLC requires responsible behavior with reasonable limits, not unlike those imposed on otherwise "free speech" in a public forum. Yes, we have had to confront less than 1% of the SSA-OLC participants to deliver this message. Fortunately, most of them were reasonable, and did not try to confuse the issue by playing attack the messenger, at least not for this long anyway. |
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IMPORTANT- Seeyou V's Strepla and airspace violations.
Doug Haluza schrieb:
This is why I am such a big supporter of the OLC format. I was one of the few participants in the old r.a.s. League organized by Guenther Eichhorn, which never really took off. It was eventually surpassed by the OLC, in part because OLC used an automatic scoring algorithm based on IGC files. This was a major improvement in the decentralized competition format, and has won worldwide acceptance (except in Britan, where the BGC league was already well established). There are several countries that have elected to work together with Segelflugszene Ltd., the company that runs the OLC. These countries are France, Belgium and UK. Austria work together with Segelflugszene Ltd. in the past, but has now its own system, as Segelflugszene was not able to adopt to the needs of Austria. Before I started the OLC together with Mr. Rose in 1998 I tried to convince Guenther Eichhorn to change to an automatic scoring of the r.a.s League, but for some reason we did not do it together. But posting IGC files to the public forum of the OLC requires responsible behavior with reasonable limits, not unlike those imposed on otherwise "free speech" in a public forum. Yes, we have had to confront less than 1% of the SSA-OLC participants to deliver this message. Fortunately, most of them were reasonable, and did not try to confuse the issue by playing attack the messenger, at least not for this long anyway. Attacking the messenger would be much more unlikely if the competitors would be informed at the time of submitting the flight by an automatic process. The process is implemented with the current software, but disabled for unknown reasons. |
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IMPORTANT- Seeyou V's Strepla and airspace violations.
"Doug Haluza" wrote in message
ps.com... ...most of them ... did not ... attack the messenger I thought so far we were discussing the OLC and not the persons. However, and *only* if you prefer to view it as more of a personal attack, then I must say that you are being way too modest. Your role in SSA-OLC is more than a messenger -- it's rather like an owner: the one who is free to invent, change, apply, not apply or mis-apply the rules at will. Enjoy your contest. Hope you win a big prize. |
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