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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 — Dolphin flyers

19 pilots · ranks 1–25 · median 10 · middle half 5.5–14.5

  • High — Share of the height gain made outside thermals group median P69 in this field (10 percent)
  • Low — Share of race time spent hunting for the next climb group median P31 in this field (29 percent) · usually a strength
  • High — Time spent flying with a gaggle group median P69 in this field (50 percent)
  • Low — Low saves dug out from the bottom of the band group median P33 in this field (0.0 count)
  • 1. Scott Barrett
  • 2. Olav Opsanger
  • 3. Rohan Taylor
  • 4. Rohan Holtkamp
  • 5. Adam Stevens
  • 6. Steve Docherty
  • 7. Stuart Cathcart
  • 8. Paul Bissett-Amess
  • 9. Corinna Schwiegershausen
  • 10. Jon Durand
  • 11. Steve Blenkinsop
  • 12. Steven Crosby
  • 13. Hughbert Alexander
  • 14. Neale Halsall
  • 15. James Wynd (most typical of this group)
  • 18. James Atkinson
  • 23. Guy Hubbard
  • 24. Troy Horton
  • 25. Peter Burkitt

Group B — Low leavers

10 pilots · ranks 16–29 · median 21.5 · middle half 19.3–26.8

  • Low — How much of the thermal the pilot climbed before leaving it group median P15 in this field (38 percent)
  • High — Final glide committed to when leaving the last climb group median P84 in this field (19.25 ratio)
  • Low — How low the pilot gets between climbs group median P16 in this field (25 percent)
  • High — Gliding wide of the optimal course line group median P84 in this field (44 percent)
  • 16. Ward Gunn
  • 17. Richard Martin (most typical of this group)
  • 19. Neil Hooke
  • 20. Mitch Butler
  • 21. Sam Prest
  • 22. Peter Adriaans
  • 26. Peter Tolhurst
  • 27. Andrew Sutton
  • 28. Vic Hare
  • 29. Jason Carman

Not clustered: 30. Adrian Connor — only 10 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 31. Peter Garrone — only 5 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 31. Dustan Hansen — only 5 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%); 31. Jay Kubeil — only 6 of 21 metrics available (needs ≥ 60%).

29 pilots on 21 behavioural metrics formed 2 groups.