FLSC 2010 Cross-country Soaring On-line Contest

The FLSC Cross country Championship has been created to stimulate cross country flying by club members. Cross-country flying is the pinnacle of soaring; it is exciting and addictive. The Soaring Society of America has established the On-line Contest, OLC, based on the highly successful OLC handicap system used extensively in Europe. The OLC handicapping system corrects for differences soaring capability of a variety gliders. The OLC daily results are published on the OLC website each day for everyone to see. The nice feature of the OLC is that if you have an electronic logger you can automatically and immediately score your flight that will count towards the FLSC Cross Country Championship..

On-line Contest League
There is a second advantage of the OLC in that the US OLC League allows the FLSC to compete as a club with other soaring clubs in region 3 for cross country soaring achievements for each weekend. Doug Haluza who appears to have spearheaded this initiative for the SSA has additional suggestions on how to participate on the OLC League.

I have registered the Finger Lakes Soaring Club as a member of the OLC League. Each of you who wishes to compete or use the OLC to analyse and publicize your flights needs to register. When you register select the Finger Lakes Soaring Club as your club and Dansville as the site so that your scores counts towards the FLSC. The OLC is a friendly contest to stimulate cross country flying. Participate since it is a lot of fun.