Flying style

Pilots grouped by how alike their flying was.

Analysis computed

The groups are flying style, and not score. The spread of ranks in each group shows where that style paid and where it did not.

Group A — Strong climbers

17 pilots · ranks 2–50 · median 28 · middle half 15–42

High — Climbing faster than the pilots sharing the thermal group median P80 in this field (84 percent) · usually a strength
Low — Climbs joined on another pilot's marker group median P25 in this field (0 percent)
High — Time to core thermals group median P73 in this field (80 seconds)
Low — Share of the flight spent in air that wasn’t sinking group median P29 in this field (28 percent)

2. Hugo Armstrong
4. Poppy Boyle
5. Finn Carter
13. George Gibson
15. Willow Harding
17. Harry Ingram
25. Jasper Mercer
27. Harper Newton
28. Chloe Nolan (most typical of this group)
30. Toby Osborne
35. Ruby Reid
38. Fergus Tobin
42. Ella Vaughan
47. Cody Yates
48. Leo Young
49. Amelia Zammit
50. Frankie Zeller

Group B — Lift keepers

24 pilots · ranks 8–46 · median 31.5 · middle half 21.8–39.3

High — Share of the flight spent in air that wasn’t sinking group median P74 in this field (38 percent)
Low — Low saves dug out from the bottom of the band group median P31 in this field (0.0 count)
Low — Climb rate at thermal exit group median P33 in this field (-1.2 metres per second)
Low — Climbing faster than the pilots sharing the thermal group median P34 in this field (40 percent) · usually costly

8. Scarlett Doyle
9. Archie Ellison
11. Freya Foster
19. Evie Jarvis
20. Mia Jensen
21. Ethan Kelly
22. Oscar Knight
23. Matilda Larsen
24. Grace Lowe
26. Lucas Murphy
29. Henry OConnor
31. Georgia Palmer
32. Zoe Patel
33. Oliver Quinn
34. Angus Rankin
36. Thomas Singh
37. Maya Sutton (most typical of this group)
39. Isla Turner
40. Alice Underhill
41. Charlie Underwood
43. Rory Voss
44. Max Walker
45. Hazel Whelan
46. Lily Xu

Not clustered: 1. James Abbott — only 1 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 3. Sarah Baker — only 4 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 6. Liam Chen — only 1 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 7. Olivia Dixon — only 7 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 10. Noah Evans — only 7 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 12. Emma Fraser — only 7 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 14. Jack Grant — only 7 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 16. Ava Hughes — only 7 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 18. William Irwin — only 7 of 13 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%).

41 pilots on 13 behavioural metrics formed 2 groups.