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 — Bold leavers

24 pilots · ranks 1–32 · median 13.5 · middle half 6.8–20

High — How often leaving the gaggle paid off group median P74 in this field (100 percent)
High — How much of the thermal the pilot climbed before leaving it group median P73 in this field (71 percent)
High — Time spent flying with a gaggle group median P72 in this field (45 percent)
High — Glide speed between climbs group median P70 in this field (63.2 kilometres per hour) · usually a strength

1. Scott Barrett
2. Rohan Holtkamp
3. Rohan Taylor
4. Jon Durand (most typical of this group)
5. Steven Crosby
6. Peter Burkitt
7. Mitch Butler
8. Steve Docherty
9. Adam Stevens
10. Peter Adriaans
12. Paul Bissett-Amess
13. Guy Hubbard
14. Steve Blenkinsop
15. Vic Hare
16. Neale Halsall
17. James Wynd
18. Jay Kubeil
19. Andrew Sutton
23. Neil Hooke
24. Dustan Hansen
25. Corinna Schwiegershausen
28. James Atkinson
29. Sam Prest
32. Randall Clotworthy

Group B — Searchers

15 pilots · ranks 11–43 · median 31 · middle half 22.5–35.5

High — Share of race time spent hunting for the next climb group median P80 in this field (43 percent) · usually costly
Low — Distance covered between climbs group median P21 in this field (1.4 kilometres) · usually costly
High — Gliding wide of the optimal course line group median P78 in this field (36 percent)
Low — Share of lift turned in that was kept as a climb group median P23 in this field (61 percent)

11. Olav Opsanger
19. Adrian Connor
19. Troy Horton
19. Richard Martin
26. Stuart Cathcart
27. Peter Tolhurst
30. Hughbert Alexander
31. Ward Gunn
33. Dean Bayly
34. Mark Jeffree
35. Andrew Taylor (most typical of this group)
36. Magnus Ronningen
37. Alexander Kot
38. John Harriott
43. Peter Garrone

Not clustered: 39. David Jackson — only 12 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 40. Jason Lannstrom — only 8 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 41. Ted Sadowski — only 10 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 42. Donny Gardner — only 9 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 44. Jason Carman — only 7 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 44. Richard Hughes — only 11 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%).

39 pilots on 21 behavioural metrics formed 2 groups.