Metric details

Every pilot's reading on every behaviour, family by family.

Analysis computed

best: could be chance (0.17)

#	Pilot	NonSink%
1	James Abbott	0
2	Hugo Armstrong	32
3	Sarah Baker	0
4	Poppy Boyle	33
5	Finn Carter	31
6	Liam Chen	3
7	Olivia Dixon	34
8	Scarlett Doyle	38
9	Archie Ellison	43
10	Noah Evans	27
11	Freya Foster	41
12	Emma Fraser	27
13	George Gibson	33
14	Jack Grant	28
15	Willow Harding	26
16	Ava Hughes	41
17	Harry Ingram	25
18	William Irwin	28
19	Evie Jarvis	38
20	Mia Jensen	42
21	Ethan Kelly	35
22	Oscar Knight	39
23	Matilda Larsen	41
24	Grace Lowe	34
25	Jasper Mercer	26
26	Lucas Murphy	29
27	Harper Newton	27
28	Chloe Nolan	34
29	Henry OConnor	42
30	Toby Osborne	27
31	Georgia Palmer	35
32	Zoe Patel	29
33	Oliver Quinn	43
34	Angus Rankin	31
35	Ruby Reid	25
36	Thomas Singh	40
37	Maya Sutton	39
38	Fergus Tobin	25
39	Isla Turner	38
40	Alice Underhill	37
41	Charlie Underwood	38
42	Ella Vaughan	32
43	Rory Voss	31
44	Max Walker	45
45	Hazel Whelan	36
46	Lily Xu	46
47	Cody Yates	30
48	Leo Young	28
49	Amelia Zammit	33
50	Frankie Zeller	24

The day’s wind, hour by hour and leg by leg

Measured in kilometres per hour · no expected direction

What the air did, read from the field itself. We estimate the wind from the circling of every pilot. The first method is the drift of the circle centre, and the second method, used when the first is not available, is the modulation of the ground speed. We then combine the estimates two ways. The table by hour of day shows how the wind increased and changed direction through the day. The table by speed-section leg shows the wind on each part of the course. This metric describes the day, so it has no value for each pilot.

Wind by hour

Period	Speed (km/h)	Dir (°)	n
Whole task	7.1	221	79
13:00 AEDT	8.2	222	32
14:00 AEDT	6.3	204	32
15:00 AEDT	4.8	262	15

Each circle gives one wind estimate. GlideComp uses centre drift where it can, and ground-speed modulation where it cannot. The direction is the vector mean of the estimates, in degrees the wind blows FROM (0° = north). The speed is the median of their magnitudes, because the length of a vector mean falls toward zero when the directions scatter.

Hours are shown in the competition’s time zone.

How strong the day’s climbs were, hour by hour

Measured in metres per second · no expected direction

When the day started, reached its peak, and ended. We group the thermal climbs of all pilots by the hour in which each climb started, labelled in the time zone of the competition. The median and the 90th-percentile average climb rate for each hour show how the lift developed. The first row is the whole task, measured over every climb of the day in one set, and not as an average of the hourly rows. This metric describes the day, so it has no value for each pilot.

Climb by hour

Period	Median (m/s)	p90 (m/s)	n
Whole task	1.7	2.2	175
13:00 AEDT	1.7	2.3	88
14:00 AEDT	1.7	2.1	58
15:00 AEDT	1.9	2.1	24
16:00 AEDT	1.8	2.0	5

The average climb rate of every thermal use across the field, grouped by the start of the climb. The hours are in the time zone of the competition. The whole-task row is measured over all of those climbs together, not averaged from the hours.

Share of the flight spent in air that wasn’t sinking

Measured in percent · no expected direction

How much of the flight was in air worth being in. The value is the share of the airborne time of a pilot, on the shared grid, with a 30 s-smoothed vario at or above −0.5 m/s. The time they flew, the line they steered and the way the flight ended all feed this value. It is therefore a reading of the day as much as of the pilot. There is no expected direction, and the sign of the correlation is the finding. The timing table compares the window of the day’s best climbs against the time when the field launched.

Day timing

	Time
Best conditions	15:00–16:00 AEDT
Earliest takeoff	13:00 AEDT
Median takeoff	13:20 AEDT
Latest takeoff	13:38 AEDT

Best conditions is the one-hour window with the strongest median climb (1.9 m/s), among hours with enough climbs to be representative (≥20% of the busiest hour).

best: could be chance (0.25)

#	Pilot	Out-climb	Core s	LeaveRate	Kept%	TopOut%	Round
1	James Abbott	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	63 (1 shared climb)	80 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	30 (3/10 circling bouts led to climbs)	72 (mean on-course altitude 49% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
3	Sarah Baker	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	Poppy Boyle	63 (2 shared climbs)	80 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	86 (6/7 circling bouts led to climbs)	56 (mean on-course altitude 40% of band)	— (7 circles, 0% left)
5	Finn Carter	33 (3 shared climbs)	80 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (10/15 circling bouts led to climbs)	79 (mean on-course altitude 43% of band)	—
6	Liam Chen	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	Olivia Dixon	20 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	— (6 circles, 0% left)
8	Scarlett Doyle	42 (3 shared climbs)	70 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	33 (3/9 circling bouts led to climbs)	58 (mean on-course altitude 31% of band)	— (2 circles, 0% left)
9	Archie Ellison	5 (3 shared climbs)	70 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	73 (8/11 circling bouts led to climbs)	94 (mean on-course altitude 48% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
10	Noah Evans	83 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	—
11	Freya Foster	36 (3 shared climbs)	70 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	82 (23/28 circling bouts led to climbs)	98 (mean on-course altitude 53% of band)	— (3 circles, 0% left)
12	Emma Fraser	37 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	—
13	George Gibson	84 (2 shared climbs)	80 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	44 (4/9 circling bouts led to climbs)	82 (mean on-course altitude 44% of band)	—
14	Jack Grant	48 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	—
15	Willow Harding	76 (1 shared climb)	90 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	58 (7/12 circling bouts led to climbs)	86 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	0.17 (10 circles, 0% left)
16	Ava Hughes	26 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	—
17	Harry Ingram	94 (2 shared climbs)	90 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	79 (11/14 circling bouts led to climbs)	61 (mean on-course altitude 42% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
18	William Irwin	57 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	—
19	Evie Jarvis	68 (2 shared climbs)	70 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	74 (14/19 circling bouts led to climbs)	84 (mean on-course altitude 50% of band)	—
20	Mia Jensen	9 (1 shared climb)	35 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	86 (6/7 circling bouts led to climbs)	62 (mean on-course altitude 33% of band)	—
21	Ethan Kelly	46 (2 shared climbs)	40 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	100 (6/6 circling bouts led to climbs)	71 (mean on-course altitude 33% of band)	—
22	Oscar Knight	4 (2 shared climbs)	70 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	91 (31/34 circling bouts led to climbs)	102 (mean on-course altitude 52% of band)	—
23	Matilda Larsen	49 (3 shared climbs)	60 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	33 (4/12 circling bouts led to climbs)	90 (mean on-course altitude 46% of band)	— (2 circles, 0% left)
24	Grace Lowe	43 (1 shared climb)	40 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (8/12 circling bouts led to climbs)	98 (mean on-course altitude 46% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
25	Jasper Mercer	92 (3 shared climbs)	80 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	40 (6/15 circling bouts led to climbs)	104 (mean on-course altitude 52% of band)	—
26	Lucas Murphy	85 (1 shared climb)	45 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	86 (6/7 circling bouts led to climbs)	85 (mean on-course altitude 42% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
27	Harper Newton	91 (1 shared climb)	90 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	77 (23/30 circling bouts led to climbs)	98 (mean on-course altitude 50% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
28	Chloe Nolan	77 (2 shared climbs)	80 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	60 (3/5 circling bouts led to climbs)	78 (mean on-course altitude 41% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
29	Henry OConnor	8 (2 shared climbs)	35 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	86 (6/7 circling bouts led to climbs)	80 (mean on-course altitude 39% of band)	—
30	Toby Osborne	98 (3 shared climbs)	90 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	56 (15/27 circling bouts led to climbs)	92 (mean on-course altitude 48% of band)	— (9 circles, 0% left)
31	Georgia Palmer	30 (3 shared climbs)	70 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	38 (8/21 circling bouts led to climbs)	92 (mean on-course altitude 50% of band)	—
32	Zoe Patel	52 (1 shared climb)	45 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	—	94 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	—
33	Oliver Quinn	38 (2 shared climbs)	35 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	100 (9/9 circling bouts led to climbs)	94 (mean on-course altitude 44% of band)	—
34	Angus Rankin	72 (1 shared climb)	80 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	68 (13/19 circling bouts led to climbs)	80 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	—
35	Ruby Reid	65 (1 shared climb)	90 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (2/3 circling bouts led to climbs)	69 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	— (3 circles, 0% left)
36	Thomas Singh	60 (2 shared climbs)	70 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	60 (3/5 circling bouts led to climbs)	86 (mean on-course altitude 49% of band)	—
37	Maya Sutton	44 (4 shared climbs)	70 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	77 (20/26 circling bouts led to climbs)	78 (mean on-course altitude 46% of band)	0.12 (14 circles, 0% left)
38	Fergus Tobin	91 (2 shared climbs)	90 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.8 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	50 (14/28 circling bouts led to climbs)	87 (mean on-course altitude 44% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
39	Isla Turner	10 (3 shared climbs)	70 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	38 (3/8 circling bouts led to climbs)	76 (mean on-course altitude 47% of band)	— (8 circles, 0% left)
40	Alice Underhill	11 (1 shared climb)	70 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	78 (40/51 circling bouts led to climbs)	73 (mean on-course altitude 42% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
41	Charlie Underwood	1 (3 shared climbs)	60 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	89 (16/18 circling bouts led to climbs)	76 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	—
42	Ella Vaughan	94 (2 shared climbs)	80 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	73 (8/11 circling bouts led to climbs)	72 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	—
43	Rory Voss	44 (2 shared climbs)	80 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	75 (40/53 circling bouts led to climbs)	93 (mean on-course altitude 55% of band)	—
44	Max Walker	3 (2 shared climbs)	60 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (2/3 circling bouts led to climbs)	71 (mean on-course altitude 42% of band)	—
45	Hazel Whelan	76 (2 shared climbs)	70 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	76 (13/17 circling bouts led to climbs)	68 (mean on-course altitude 39% of band)	—
46	Lily Xu	2 (2 shared climbs)	60 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	82 (14/17 circling bouts led to climbs)	72 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	— (6 circles, 0% left)
47	Cody Yates	60 (6 shared climbs)	80 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (28/42 circling bouts led to climbs)	83 (mean on-course altitude 47% of band)	—
48	Leo Young	97 (2 shared climbs)	80 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (6/9 circling bouts led to climbs)	69 (mean on-course altitude 38% of band)	—
49	Amelia Zammit	83 (2 shared climbs)	80 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	59 (13/22 circling bouts led to climbs)	89 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	—
50	Frankie Zeller	100 (1 shared climb)	90 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	58 (14/24 circling bouts led to climbs)	75 (mean on-course altitude 47% of band)	—

Share of lift turned in that was kept as a climb

Measured in percent · no expected direction

How selective the pilot is about the lift they stop for. Each period of circling of 30 s or more after the start counts as lift that the pilot sampled. If the period overlaps a detected thermal, the pilot kept that lift. If it does not, they turned a few circles and left it. The value is the percentage kept. A low value means they are selective. A high value means they keep almost every climb they turn in. There is no expected direction: selection wins on a strong day and wastes time on a weak one.

Acceptance by hour

Hour	Median accepted (%)	pilots
13:00 AEDT	67	37
14:00 AEDT	69	32
15:00 AEDT	64	14
16:00 AEDT	88	6

Median per-pilot acceptance %, bucketed by the hour (competition time zone).

How round and consistent the circles were

Measured in ratio · no expected direction

Whether the pilot flies clean, repeatable circles, or moves around the thermal. We fit each detected circle by least squares. The RMS fit error divided by the fitted radius measures how round the turn was. The value is the median over all of the circles of the pilot. A lower value means smoother and more consistent turns. There is no expected direction: a rough trace can be a pilot chasing a drifting or broken core rather than a pilot circling badly.

Turn direction across the field: 0% left (79 circles).

best: could be chance (0.15)

#	Pilot	GlideSpd	Dolphin%
1	James Abbott	—	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	43.1 (3 glides, 50 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2956 m gained outside thermals)
3	Sarah Baker	—	—
4	Poppy Boyle	44.3 (3 glides, 31 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2391 m gained outside thermals)
5	Finn Carter	40.8 (3 glides, 55 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3297 m gained outside thermals)
6	Liam Chen	—	—
7	Olivia Dixon	—	—
8	Scarlett Doyle	41.1 (3 glides, 32 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2246 m gained outside thermals)
9	Archie Ellison	44.7 (3 glides, 41 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3200 m gained outside thermals)
10	Noah Evans	—	—
11	Freya Foster	45.2 (3 glides, 50 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3993 m gained outside thermals)
12	Emma Fraser	—	—
13	George Gibson	36.8 (3 glides, 51 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3591 m gained outside thermals)
14	Jack Grant	—	—
15	Willow Harding	45.4 (3 glides, 56 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3465 m gained outside thermals)
16	Ava Hughes	—	—
17	Harry Ingram	38.0 (3 glides, 51 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2707 m gained outside thermals)
18	William Irwin	—	—
19	Evie Jarvis	41.6 (3 glides, 52 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3396 m gained outside thermals)
20	Mia Jensen	46.7 (1 glides, 15 min gliding)	0 (0 of 821 m gained outside thermals)
21	Ethan Kelly	46.7 (1 glides, 19 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1010 m gained outside thermals)
22	Oscar Knight	43.6 (4 glides, 68 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5039 m gained outside thermals)
23	Matilda Larsen	43.5 (4 glides, 77 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4442 m gained outside thermals)
24	Grace Lowe	46.1 (1 glides, 25 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1304 m gained outside thermals)
25	Jasper Mercer	39.1 (4 glides, 100 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5488 m gained outside thermals)
26	Lucas Murphy	44.9 (1 glides, 22 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1123 m gained outside thermals)
27	Harper Newton	39.5 (4 glides, 93 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5661 m gained outside thermals)
28	Chloe Nolan	41.4 (2 glides, 34 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2104 m gained outside thermals)
29	Henry OConnor	45.1 (1 glides, 18 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1074 m gained outside thermals)
30	Toby Osborne	41.5 (4 glides, 84 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5234 m gained outside thermals)
31	Georgia Palmer	44.7 (5 glides, 96 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5806 m gained outside thermals)
32	Zoe Patel	39.2 (1 glides, 31 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1303 m gained outside thermals)
33	Oliver Quinn	46.2 (1 glides, 19 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1292 m gained outside thermals)
34	Angus Rankin	45.5 (5 glides, 60 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4665 m gained outside thermals)
35	Ruby Reid	36.4 (2 glides, 33 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1835 m gained outside thermals)
36	Thomas Singh	45.5 (2 glides, 35 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2192 m gained outside thermals)
37	Maya Sutton	45.3 (5 glides, 62 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5123 m gained outside thermals)
38	Fergus Tobin	37.4 (5 glides, 111 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5725 m gained outside thermals)
39	Isla Turner	42.3 (2 glides, 35 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1945 m gained outside thermals)
40	Alice Underhill	38.7 (6 glides, 98 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5545 m gained outside thermals)
41	Charlie Underwood	38.5 (2 glides, 43 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1880 m gained outside thermals)
42	Ella Vaughan	43.3 (2 glides, 26 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1971 m gained outside thermals)
43	Rory Voss	37.0 (6 glides, 110 min gliding)	0 (0 of 7573 m gained outside thermals)
44	Max Walker	41.5 (2 glides, 29 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1769 m gained outside thermals)
45	Hazel Whelan	37.9 (6 glides, 73 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5350 m gained outside thermals)
46	Lily Xu	44.5 (2 glides, 29 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1974 m gained outside thermals)
47	Cody Yates	43.9 (6 glides, 93 min gliding)	0 (0 of 6154 m gained outside thermals)
48	Leo Young	45.8 (2 glides, 30 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1894 m gained outside thermals)
49	Amelia Zammit	43.5 (3 glides, 44 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3021 m gained outside thermals)
50	Frankie Zeller	38.8 (6 glides, 115 min gliding)	0 (0 of 6501 m gained outside thermals)

Glide speed between climbs

Measured in kilometres per hour · higher is better

How fast the pilot moves down the course when they are on a glide. The value is the duration-weighted mean ground speed over every glide after the start, which is the glide distance divided by the glide time. A higher value means more ground covered in each minute between climbs.

Field glide speed: median 43.3 km/h · p90 45.8 km/h (41 pilots)

best: some pattern (0.33)

#	Pilot	Floor%	LowSaves	Search%
1	James Abbott	—	—	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	18 (2 descents, lowest 18% of band)	0.0	26
3	Sarah Baker	—	0.0	0
4	Poppy Boyle	20 (2 descents, lowest 20% of band)	0.0	3
5	Finn Carter	11 (2 descents, lowest 11% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	21
6	Liam Chen	—	—	—
7	Olivia Dixon	—	0.0	0
8	Scarlett Doyle	14 (2 descents, lowest 13% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	26
9	Archie Ellison	20 (2 descents, lowest 20% of band)	0.0	17
10	Noah Evans	—	0.0	0
11	Freya Foster	18 (2 descents, lowest 18% of band)	0.0	23
12	Emma Fraser	—	0.0	0
13	George Gibson	12 (2 descents, lowest 12% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	12
14	Jack Grant	—	0.0	0
15	Willow Harding	17 (2 descents, lowest 16% of band)	0.0	13
16	Ava Hughes	—	0.0	0
17	Harry Ingram	18 (2 descents, lowest 18% of band)	0.0	28
18	William Irwin	—	0.0	0
19	Evie Jarvis	20 (2 descents, lowest 20% of band)	0.0	18
20	Mia Jensen	—	1.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	27
21	Ethan Kelly	—	1.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	3
22	Oscar Knight	11 (3 descents, lowest 11% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	8
23	Matilda Larsen	13 (3 descents, lowest 13% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	28
24	Grace Lowe	—	0.0	20
25	Jasper Mercer	13 (3 descents, lowest 13% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	20
26	Lucas Murphy	—	0.0	7
27	Harper Newton	11 (3 descents, lowest 11% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	19
28	Chloe Nolan	—	0.0	17
29	Henry OConnor	—	0.0	13
30	Toby Osborne	11 (3 descents, lowest 11% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	22
31	Georgia Palmer	17 (4 descents, lowest 17% of band)	0.0	27
32	Zoe Patel	—	1.0 (deepest save from 14% of band)	3
33	Oliver Quinn	—	1.0 (deepest save from 14% of band)	6
34	Angus Rankin	20 (4 descents, lowest 20% of band)	0.0	16
35	Ruby Reid	—	0.0	4
36	Thomas Singh	—	0.0	15
37	Maya Sutton	16 (4 descents, lowest 16% of band)	0.0	14
38	Fergus Tobin	12 (4 descents, lowest 12% of band)	5.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	27
39	Isla Turner	—	0.0	24
40	Alice Underhill	15 (5 descents, lowest 15% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 15% of band)	20
41	Charlie Underwood	—	0.0	8
42	Ella Vaughan	—	0.0	17
43	Rory Voss	18 (5 descents, lowest 18% of band)	0.0	18
44	Max Walker	—	0.0	10
45	Hazel Whelan	13 (5 descents, lowest 13% of band)	6.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	16
46	Lily Xu	—	2.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	26
47	Cody Yates	18 (5 descents, lowest 18% of band)	0.0	32
48	Leo Young	—	2.0 (deepest save from 14% of band)	23
49	Amelia Zammit	16 (2 descents, lowest 16% of band)	0.0	37
50	Frankie Zeller	14 (5 descents, lowest 14% of band)	6.0 (deepest save from 14% of band)	23

Share of race time spent hunting for the next climb

Measured in percent · lower is better

Time that goes into neither a climb nor progress down the course. This is the time spent to find lift, to stay up, and to decide what to do next. The value is the share of the speed-section time, from the start to ESS or to the landing, in which the pilot neither climbed in a thermal nor glided with real net speed. A lower value means less time lost between climbs.

Speed-section phase shares, field p25/median/p75: climb 26/30/36% · glide 47/51/64% · search 7/17/23%

best: could be chance (0.09)

#	Pilot	InGaggle%	Marked%
1	James Abbott	—	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	7	0 (0/3 climbs marked)
3	Sarah Baker	0	—
4	Poppy Boyle	0	0 (0/3 climbs marked)
5	Finn Carter	14	0 (0/3 climbs marked)
6	Liam Chen	—	—
7	Olivia Dixon	0	—
8	Scarlett Doyle	17	33 (1/3 climbs marked)
9	Archie Ellison	12	67 (2/3 climbs marked)
10	Noah Evans	0	—
11	Freya Foster	11	33 (1/3 climbs marked)
12	Emma Fraser	0	—
13	George Gibson	11	33 (1/3 climbs marked)
14	Jack Grant	50	—
15	Willow Harding	0	0 (0/3 climbs marked)
16	Ava Hughes	69	—
17	Harry Ingram	13	0 (0/3 climbs marked)
18	William Irwin	0	—
19	Evie Jarvis	1	33 (1/3 climbs marked)
20	Mia Jensen	0	—
21	Ethan Kelly	0	—
22	Oscar Knight	13	0 (0/4 climbs marked)
23	Matilda Larsen	3	50 (2/4 climbs marked)
24	Grace Lowe	20	—
25	Jasper Mercer	8	50 (2/4 climbs marked)
26	Lucas Murphy	0	—
27	Harper Newton	3	0 (0/4 climbs marked)
28	Chloe Nolan	0	—
29	Henry OConnor	4	—
30	Toby Osborne	3	25 (1/4 climbs marked)
31	Georgia Palmer	7	20 (1/5 climbs marked)
32	Zoe Patel	0	—
33	Oliver Quinn	4	—
34	Angus Rankin	9	0 (0/5 climbs marked)
35	Ruby Reid	0	—
36	Thomas Singh	6	—
37	Maya Sutton	2	0 (0/5 climbs marked)
38	Fergus Tobin	1	0 (0/5 climbs marked)
39	Isla Turner	11	—
40	Alice Underhill	0	0 (0/6 climbs marked)
41	Charlie Underwood	9	—
42	Ella Vaughan	0	—
43	Rory Voss	4	17 (1/6 climbs marked)
44	Max Walker	11	—
45	Hazel Whelan	0	17 (1/6 climbs marked)
46	Lily Xu	0	—
47	Cody Yates	12	83 (5/6 climbs marked)
48	Leo Young	2	—
49	Amelia Zammit	10	0 (0/3 climbs marked)
50	Frankie Zeller	4	0 (0/6 climbs marked)

Time spent flying with a gaggle

Measured in percent · no expected direction

Whether the pilot raced with other pilots or alone. The value is the share of their flying time after the start inside a detected gaggle, that is, clustered with one other racing pilot or more on the shared time grid. There is no expected direction. A gaggle increases the power to search for lift, but it also holds a pilot to its own speed. The sign of the correlation says which of the two occurred here.

37 gaggle episodes detected (peak size 3 pilots).

#	Pilot	StartDly
1	James Abbott	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	0
3	Sarah Baker	0
4	Poppy Boyle	0
5	Finn Carter	0
6	Liam Chen	—
7	Olivia Dixon	0
8	Scarlett Doyle	0
9	Archie Ellison	0
10	Noah Evans	0
11	Freya Foster	0
12	Emma Fraser	0
13	George Gibson	0
14	Jack Grant	0
15	Willow Harding	0
16	Ava Hughes	0
17	Harry Ingram	0
18	William Irwin	0
19	Evie Jarvis	0
20	Mia Jensen	0
21	Ethan Kelly	0
22	Oscar Knight	0
23	Matilda Larsen	0
24	Grace Lowe	0
25	Jasper Mercer	0
26	Lucas Murphy	0
27	Harper Newton	0
28	Chloe Nolan	0
29	Henry OConnor	0
30	Toby Osborne	0
31	Georgia Palmer	0
32	Zoe Patel	0
33	Oliver Quinn	0
34	Angus Rankin	0
35	Ruby Reid	0
36	Thomas Singh	0
37	Maya Sutton	0
38	Fergus Tobin	0
39	Isla Turner	0
40	Alice Underhill	0
41	Charlie Underwood	0
42	Ella Vaughan	0
43	Rory Voss	0
44	Max Walker	0
45	Hazel Whelan	0
46	Lily Xu	0
47	Cody Yates	0
48	Leo Young	0
49	Amelia Zammit	0
50	Frankie Zeller	0

How long after the gate opened the pilot started

Measured in seconds · lower is better

Every second between the opening of the gate and the crossing of the start line is a second lost for nothing. The value is the seconds from the start gate taken to the scored SSS crossing. On an elapsed-time task, the pilot’s own crossing is the reference, so the delay is 0 by definition. The start table adds the crossing altitude, and the distance behind the leading pilot who had already started.

Start execution

Pilot	Delay	Alt m	Band %	Behind km
Hugo Armstrong	0:00	1784	98	—
Sarah Baker	0:00	138	-11	—
Poppy Boyle	0:00	1305	66	—
Finn Carter	0:00	1366	70	—
Olivia Dixon	0:00	1221	61	—
Scarlett Doyle	0:00	791	32	—
Archie Ellison	0:00	855	36	—
Noah Evans	0:00	1567	84	—
Freya Foster	0:00	933	42	—
Emma Fraser	0:00	1022	47	—
George Gibson	0:00	1344	69	—
Jack Grant	0:00	1555	83	—
Willow Harding	0:00	809	33	—
Ava Hughes	0:00	1406	73	—
Harry Ingram	0:00	1404	73	—
William Irwin	0:00	984	45	—
Evie Jarvis	0:00	1525	81	—
Mia Jensen	0:00	1327	68	—
Ethan Kelly	0:00	1115	54	—
Oscar Knight	0:00	538	15	—
Matilda Larsen	0:00	718	27	—
Grace Lowe	0:00	1395	72	—
Jasper Mercer	0:00	790	32	—
Lucas Murphy	0:00	1363	70	—
Harper Newton	0:00	1405	73	—
Chloe Nolan	0:00	1115	54	—
Henry OConnor	0:00	1220	61	—
Toby Osborne	0:00	1451	76	—
Georgia Palmer	0:00	1059	50	—
Zoe Patel	0:00	1508	80	—
Oliver Quinn	0:00	876	38	—
Angus Rankin	0:00	679	25	—
Ruby Reid	0:00	661	24	—
Thomas Singh	0:00	1670	90	—
Maya Sutton	0:00	1576	84	—
Fergus Tobin	0:00	1305	66	—
Isla Turner	0:00	1595	85	—
Alice Underhill	0:00	1167	57	—
Charlie Underwood	0:00	1504	79	—
Ella Vaughan	0:00	870	37	—
Rory Voss	0:00	1630	88	—
Max Walker	0:00	1061	50	—
Hazel Whelan	0:00	1089	52	—
Lily Xu	0:00	865	37	—
Cody Yates	0:00	1448	76	—
Leo Young	0:00	1241	62	—
Amelia Zammit	0:00	1505	79	—
Frankie Zeller	0:00	1617	87	—

Delay = gate taken → SSS crossing. Behind km = extra distance to the next turnpoint vs the furthest-along already-started pilot at the moment of this start (time grid).

Metric details

Day profile & windbest: could be chance (0.17)

Climbingbest: could be chance (0.25)

Share of lift turned in that was kept as a climb

Acceptance by hour

How round and consistent the circles were

Glidingbest: could be chance (0.15)

Decision-makingbest: some pattern (0.33)

Share of race time spent hunting for the next climb

Gagglebest: could be chance (0.09)

Race craft

best: could be chance (0.17)

best: could be chance (0.25)

best: could be chance (0.15)

best: some pattern (0.33)

best: could be chance (0.09)