Metric details

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

Analysis computed

best: could be chance (0.16)

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

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	8.0	332	122
13:00 AEDT	7.2	343	35
14:00 AEDT	8.2	304	36
15:00 AEDT	8.4	339	33
16:00 AEDT	9.0	344	18

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	1.6	2.1	274
13:00 AEDT	1.7	2.3	88
14:00 AEDT	1.5	2.0	86
15:00 AEDT	1.5	2.0	55
16:00 AEDT	1.5	2.0	33
17:00 AEDT	1.5	1.9	9
18:00 AEDT	1.7	1.9	2
19:00 AEDT	1.4	1.4	1

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	13:00–14:00 AEDT
Earliest takeoff	13:00 AEDT
Median takeoff	13:20 AEDT
Latest takeoff	13:39 AEDT

Best conditions is the one-hour window with the strongest median climb (1.7 m/s), among hours with enough climbs to be representative (≥20% of the busiest hour).

best: too few pilots (0.80)

#	Pilot	Out-climb	Core s	LeaveRate	Kept%	TopOut%	Round
1	James Abbott	—	—	—	—	—	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	0 (3 shared climbs)	60 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	50 (7/14 circling bouts led to climbs)	78 (mean on-course altitude 36% of band)	—
3	Sarah Baker	—	—	—	—	—	—
4	Poppy Boyle	54 (1 shared climb)	80 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.8 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	61 (28/46 circling bouts led to climbs)	96 (mean on-course altitude 47% of band)	— (8 circles, 0% left)
5	Finn Carter	39 (2 shared climbs)	80 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	33 (6/18 circling bouts led to climbs)	74 (mean on-course altitude 40% of band)	— (4 circles, 0% left)
6	Liam Chen	—	—	—	—	—	—
7	Olivia Dixon	52 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	—
8	Scarlett Doyle	90 (2 shared climbs)	80 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	33 (5/15 circling bouts led to climbs)	100 (mean on-course altitude 48% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
9	Archie Ellison	88 (2 shared climbs)	80 (6 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (6 climbs ≥ 90 s)	80 (8/10 circling bouts led to climbs)	58 (mean on-course altitude 38% of band)	—
10	Noah Evans	22 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	— (2 circles, 0% left)
11	Freya Foster	34 (3 shared climbs)	70 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	86 (31/36 circling bouts led to climbs)	63 (mean on-course altitude 36% of band)	—
12	Emma Fraser	83 (1 shared climb)	10 (1 climb ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (1 climb ≥ 90 s)	—	—	—
13	George Gibson	83 (2 shared climbs)	80 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	46 (6/13 circling bouts led to climbs)	62 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	—
14	Jack Grant	58 (2 shared climbs)	45 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	86 (6/7 circling bouts led to climbs)	75 (mean on-course altitude 33% of band)	—
15	Willow Harding	0 (2 shared climbs)	60 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	83 (34/41 circling bouts led to climbs)	64 (mean on-course altitude 35% of band)	—
16	Ava Hughes	85 (1 shared climb)	45 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	71 (5/7 circling bouts led to climbs)	76 (mean on-course altitude 34% of band)	—
17	Harry Ingram	56 (2 shared climbs)	70 (7 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (7 climbs ≥ 90 s)	29 (6/21 circling bouts led to climbs)	83 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	— (2 circles, 0% left)
18	William Irwin	98 (1 shared climb)	80 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	73 (8/11 circling bouts led to climbs)	64 (mean on-course altitude 33% of band)	—
19	Evie Jarvis	78 (1 shared climb)	80 (8 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (8 climbs ≥ 90 s)	38 (10/26 circling bouts led to climbs)	76 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	0.19 (10 circles, 0% left)
20	Mia Jensen	10 (2 shared climbs)	40 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	100 (8/8 circling bouts led to climbs)	91 (mean on-course altitude 39% of band)	—
21	Ethan Kelly	44 (2 shared climbs)	45 (2 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (2 climbs ≥ 90 s)	—	104 (mean on-course altitude 44% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
22	Oscar Knight	17 (1 shared climb)	60 (8 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (8 climbs ≥ 90 s)	38 (9/24 circling bouts led to climbs)	94 (mean on-course altitude 49% of band)	0.20 (30 circles, 0% left)
23	Matilda Larsen	52 (2 shared climbs)	70 (8 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (8 climbs ≥ 90 s)	78 (53/68 circling bouts led to climbs)	75 (mean on-course altitude 43% of band)	—
24	Grace Lowe	67 (1 shared climb)	80 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	50 (2/4 circling bouts led to climbs)	79 (mean on-course altitude 40% of band)	—
25	Jasper Mercer	18 (2 shared climbs)	70 (8 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (8 climbs ≥ 90 s)	85 (57/67 circling bouts led to climbs)	95 (mean on-course altitude 47% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
26	Lucas Murphy	26 (1 shared climb)	60 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	90 (18/20 circling bouts led to climbs)	79 (mean on-course altitude 42% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
27	Harper Newton	37 (4 shared climbs)	70 (8 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (8 climbs ≥ 90 s)	88 (56/64 circling bouts led to climbs)	79 (mean on-course altitude 43% of band)	— (9 circles, 0% left)
28	Chloe Nolan	6 (2 shared climbs)	60 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	87 (39/45 circling bouts led to climbs)	107 (mean on-course altitude 52% of band)	—
29	Henry OConnor	21 (2 shared climbs)	70 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (4/6 circling bouts led to climbs)	62 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	— (4 circles, 0% left)
30	Toby Osborne	48 (3 shared climbs)	60 (8 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (8 climbs ≥ 90 s)	68 (32/47 circling bouts led to climbs)	74 (mean on-course altitude 39% of band)	—
31	Georgia Palmer	6 (4 shared climbs)	70 (9 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (9 climbs ≥ 90 s)	85 (61/72 circling bouts led to climbs)	91 (mean on-course altitude 47% of band)	—
32	Zoe Patel	83 (2 shared climbs)	80 (3 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (3 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (2/3 circling bouts led to climbs)	74 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	—
33	Oliver Quinn	46 (1 shared climb)	70 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	81 (22/27 circling bouts led to climbs)	89 (mean on-course altitude 40% of band)	—
34	Angus Rankin	100 (4 shared climbs)	90 (9 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (9 climbs ≥ 90 s)	67 (20/30 circling bouts led to climbs)	67 (mean on-course altitude 42% of band)	—
35	Ruby Reid	93 (1 shared climb)	90 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	74 (14/19 circling bouts led to climbs)	86 (mean on-course altitude 40% of band)	—
36	Thomas Singh	6 (2 shared climbs)	60 (4 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (4 climbs ≥ 90 s)	79 (27/34 circling bouts led to climbs)	83 (mean on-course altitude 40% of band)	—
37	Maya Sutton	77 (3 shared climbs)	80 (9 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (9 climbs ≥ 90 s)	77 (20/26 circling bouts led to climbs)	80 (mean on-course altitude 44% of band)	0.17 (24 circles, 0% left)
38	Fergus Tobin	87 (2 shared climbs)	80 (9 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (9 climbs ≥ 90 s)	80 (44/55 circling bouts led to climbs)	93 (mean on-course altitude 45% of band)	—
39	Isla Turner	3 (2 shared climbs)	60 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	80 (53/66 circling bouts led to climbs)	107 (mean on-course altitude 52% of band)	— (2 circles, 0% left)
40	Alice Underhill	98 (3 shared climbs)	80 (10 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (10 climbs ≥ 90 s)	76 (42/55 circling bouts led to climbs)	75 (mean on-course altitude 43% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
41	Charlie Underwood	57 (3 shared climbs)	80 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	52 (14/27 circling bouts led to climbs)	81 (mean on-course altitude 42% of band)	0.13 (14 circles, 0% left)
42	Ella Vaughan	39 (1 shared climb)	70 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	73 (30/41 circling bouts led to climbs)	76 (mean on-course altitude 47% of band)	—
43	Rory Voss	74 (1 shared climb)	80 (11 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.0 (11 climbs ≥ 90 s)	77 (65/84 circling bouts led to climbs)	86 (mean on-course altitude 49% of band)	— (2 circles, 0% left)
44	Max Walker	66 (2 shared climbs)	70 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.3 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	56 (5/9 circling bouts led to climbs)	59 (mean on-course altitude 36% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
45	Hazel Whelan	97 (4 shared climbs)	80 (11 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.4 (11 climbs ≥ 90 s)	59 (23/39 circling bouts led to climbs)	68 (mean on-course altitude 38% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
46	Lily Xu	27 (4 shared climbs)	60 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	90 (43/48 circling bouts led to climbs)	82 (mean on-course altitude 43% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
47	Cody Yates	23 (2 shared climbs)	70 (11 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (11 climbs ≥ 90 s)	70 (57/82 circling bouts led to climbs)	88 (mean on-course altitude 44% of band)	—
48	Leo Young	61 (1 shared climb)	90 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.1 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	69 (18/26 circling bouts led to climbs)	71 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	— (1 circles, 0% left)
49	Amelia Zammit	19 (2 shared climbs)	70 (5 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-0.9 (5 climbs ≥ 90 s)	71 (25/35 circling bouts led to climbs)	54 (mean on-course altitude 37% of band)	— (2 circles, 0% left)
50	Frankie Zeller	95 (2 shared climbs)	90 (11 climbs ≥ 60 s)	-1.2 (11 climbs ≥ 90 s)	74 (35/47 circling bouts led to climbs)	70 (mean on-course altitude 39% 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	71	43
14:00 AEDT	75	38
15:00 AEDT	80	31
16:00 AEDT	70	18
17:00 AEDT	80	9
18:00 AEDT	79	2
19:00 AEDT	100	1

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 (122 circles).

best: could be chance (0.20)

#	Pilot	GlideSpd	Dolphin%
1	James Abbott	—	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	40.2 (5 glides, 78 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5029 m gained outside thermals)
3	Sarah Baker	—	—
4	Poppy Boyle	36.5 (5 glides, 117 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5854 m gained outside thermals)
5	Finn Carter	42.4 (5 glides, 83 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4708 m gained outside thermals)
6	Liam Chen	—	—
7	Olivia Dixon	—	—
8	Scarlett Doyle	46.3 (5 glides, 72 min gliding)	0 (0 of 6150 m gained outside thermals)
9	Archie Ellison	43.5 (5 glides, 60 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4873 m gained outside thermals)
10	Noah Evans	—	—
11	Freya Foster	40.3 (6 glides, 63 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5130 m gained outside thermals)
12	Emma Fraser	—	—
13	George Gibson	42.6 (6 glides, 62 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5382 m gained outside thermals)
14	Jack Grant	44.3 (1 glides, 18 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1083 m gained outside thermals)
15	Willow Harding	39.8 (6 glides, 91 min gliding)	0 (0 of 5288 m gained outside thermals)
16	Ava Hughes	37.7 (1 glides, 23 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1110 m gained outside thermals)
17	Harry Ingram	37.5 (6 glides, 130 min gliding)	0 (0 of 7618 m gained outside thermals)
18	William Irwin	41.6 (2 glides, 29 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1808 m gained outside thermals)
19	Evie Jarvis	45.6 (7 glides, 104 min gliding)	0 (0 of 7566 m gained outside thermals)
20	Mia Jensen	42.2 (1 glides, 28 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1376 m gained outside thermals)
21	Ethan Kelly	39.8 (1 glides, 30 min gliding)	0 (0 of 1603 m gained outside thermals)
22	Oscar Knight	37.3 (7 glides, 110 min gliding)	0 (0 of 8103 m gained outside thermals)
23	Matilda Larsen	37.9 (7 glides, 128 min gliding)	0 (0 of 7974 m gained outside thermals)
24	Grace Lowe	41.4 (2 glides, 41 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2124 m gained outside thermals)
25	Jasper Mercer	40.8 (7 glides, 119 min gliding)	0 (0 of 9484 m gained outside thermals)
26	Lucas Murphy	45.4 (2 glides, 34 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2404 m gained outside thermals)
27	Harper Newton	41.0 (7 glides, 114 min gliding)	0 (0 of 7339 m gained outside thermals)
28	Chloe Nolan	46.1 (3 glides, 73 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4421 m gained outside thermals)
29	Henry OConnor	45.6 (3 glides, 31 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2627 m gained outside thermals)
30	Toby Osborne	38.0 (7 glides, 123 min gliding)	0 (0 of 7147 m gained outside thermals)
31	Georgia Palmer	43.0 (8 glides, 156 min gliding)	0 (0 of 9613 m gained outside thermals)
32	Zoe Patel	42.9 (2 glides, 31 min gliding)	0 (0 of 2162 m gained outside thermals)
33	Oliver Quinn	45.3 (3 glides, 53 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3597 m gained outside thermals)
34	Angus Rankin	43.4 (8 glides, 108 min gliding)	0 (0 of 8194 m gained outside thermals)
35	Ruby Reid	36.4 (3 glides, 56 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3249 m gained outside thermals)
36	Thomas Singh	37.8 (3 glides, 64 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3460 m gained outside thermals)
37	Maya Sutton	38.2 (8 glides, 111 min gliding)	0 (0 of 8494 m gained outside thermals)
38	Fergus Tobin	38.1 (8 glides, 148 min gliding)	0 (0 of 8635 m gained outside thermals)
39	Isla Turner	40.0 (4 glides, 90 min gliding)	0 (0 of 6244 m gained outside thermals)
40	Alice Underhill	38.5 (9 glides, 116 min gliding)	0 (0 of 8991 m gained outside thermals)
41	Charlie Underwood	36.6 (4 glides, 82 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4113 m gained outside thermals)
42	Ella Vaughan	45.2 (4 glides, 63 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4318 m gained outside thermals)
43	Rory Voss	37.0 (10 glides, 198 min gliding)	0 (0 of 12357 m gained outside thermals)
44	Max Walker	46.1 (4 glides, 41 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3217 m gained outside thermals)
45	Hazel Whelan	43.6 (10 glides, 107 min gliding)	0 (0 of 10026 m gained outside thermals)
46	Lily Xu	37.0 (4 glides, 67 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4470 m gained outside thermals)
47	Cody Yates	37.3 (10 glides, 199 min gliding)	0 (0 of 11300 m gained outside thermals)
48	Leo Young	41.7 (4 glides, 66 min gliding)	0 (0 of 4401 m gained outside thermals)
49	Amelia Zammit	39.5 (4 glides, 67 min gliding)	0 (0 of 3643 m gained outside thermals)
50	Frankie Zeller	37.0 (10 glides, 129 min gliding)	0 (0 of 10243 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 40.5 km/h · p90 45.5 km/h (44 pilots)

best: some pattern (0.38)

#	Pilot	Floor%	LowSaves	Search%
1	James Abbott	—	—	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	5 (4 descents, lowest 5% of band)	5.0 (deepest save from 5% of band)	26
3	Sarah Baker	—	—	—
4	Poppy Boyle	11 (4 descents, lowest 10% of band)	5.0 (deepest save from 10% of band)	24
5	Finn Carter	14 (4 descents, lowest 14% of band)	5.0 (deepest save from 14% of band)	20
6	Liam Chen	—	0.0	—
7	Olivia Dixon	—	0.0	0
8	Scarlett Doyle	13 (4 descents, lowest 13% of band)	5.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	26
9	Archie Ellison	10 (4 descents, lowest 9% of band)	5.0 (deepest save from 9% of band)	4
10	Noah Evans	—	0.0	0
11	Freya Foster	12 (5 descents, lowest 12% of band)	6.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	19
12	Emma Fraser	—	0.0	0
13	George Gibson	14 (5 descents, lowest 13% of band)	6.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	14
14	Jack Grant	—	1.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	20
15	Willow Harding	8 (5 descents, lowest 8% of band)	6.0 (deepest save from 8% of band)	21
16	Ava Hughes	—	1.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	9
17	Harry Ingram	7 (5 descents, lowest 7% of band)	6.0 (deepest save from 7% of band)	20
18	William Irwin	—	2.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	12
19	Evie Jarvis	11 (6 descents, lowest 11% of band)	7.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	26
20	Mia Jensen	—	1.0 (deepest save from 7% of band)	4
21	Ethan Kelly	—	1.0 (deepest save from 5% of band)	14
22	Oscar Knight	15 (6 descents, lowest 14% of band)	7.0 (deepest save from 14% of band)	28
23	Matilda Larsen	8 (6 descents, lowest 7% of band)	7.0 (deepest save from 7% of band)	23
24	Grace Lowe	—	0.0	17
25	Jasper Mercer	6 (6 descents, lowest 5% of band)	7.0 (deepest save from 5% of band)	14
26	Lucas Murphy	—	2.0 (deepest save from 5% of band)	15
27	Harper Newton	13 (6 descents, lowest 13% of band)	7.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	15
28	Chloe Nolan	8 (2 descents, lowest 8% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 8% of band)	9
29	Henry OConnor	13 (2 descents, lowest 13% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	21
30	Toby Osborne	6 (6 descents, lowest 6% of band)	7.0 (deepest save from 6% of band)	22
31	Georgia Palmer	10 (7 descents, lowest 10% of band)	8.0 (deepest save from 10% of band)	20
32	Zoe Patel	—	2.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	12
33	Oliver Quinn	6 (2 descents, lowest 6% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 6% of band)	17
34	Angus Rankin	11 (7 descents, lowest 10% of band)	8.0 (deepest save from 10% of band)	13
35	Ruby Reid	12 (2 descents, lowest 12% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	12
36	Thomas Singh	8 (2 descents, lowest 8% of band)	3.0 (deepest save from 7% of band)	17
37	Maya Sutton	14 (7 descents, lowest 14% of band)	8.0 (deepest save from 14% of band)	26
38	Fergus Tobin	13 (7 descents, lowest 12% of band)	8.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	18
39	Isla Turner	5 (3 descents, lowest 5% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 5% of band)	16
40	Alice Underhill	12 (8 descents, lowest 12% of band)	9.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	26
41	Charlie Underwood	12 (3 descents, lowest 12% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 12% of band)	34
42	Ella Vaughan	12 (3 descents, lowest 11% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	24
43	Rory Voss	13 (9 descents, lowest 13% of band)	10.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	21
44	Max Walker	13 (3 descents, lowest 13% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 13% of band)	17
45	Hazel Whelan	11 (9 descents, lowest 10% of band)	10.0 (deepest save from 10% of band)	22
46	Lily Xu	11 (3 descents, lowest 11% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 11% of band)	24
47	Cody Yates	6 (9 descents, lowest 6% of band)	10.0 (deepest save from 6% of band)	27
48	Leo Young	7 (3 descents, lowest 7% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 7% of band)	22
49	Amelia Zammit	8 (3 descents, lowest 8% of band)	4.0 (deepest save from 8% of band)	31
50	Frankie Zeller	10 (9 descents, lowest 9% of band)	10.0 (deepest save from 9% of band)	27

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 30/35/39% · glide 38/45/54% · search 14/20/24%

best: could be chance (0.19)

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

54 gaggle episodes detected (peak size 5 pilots).

#	Pilot	StartDly
1	James Abbott	—
2	Hugo Armstrong	0
3	Sarah Baker	—
4	Poppy Boyle	0
5	Finn Carter	0
6	Liam Chen	0
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	696	21	—
Poppy Boyle	0:00	1306	61	—
Finn Carter	0:00	1034	43	—
Liam Chen	0:00	93	-18	—
Olivia Dixon	0:00	1428	69	—
Scarlett Doyle	0:00	1540	77	—
Archie Ellison	0:00	1407	68	—
Noah Evans	0:00	982	40	—
Freya Foster	0:00	1118	49	—
Emma Fraser	0:00	900	35	—
George Gibson	0:00	1158	51	—
Jack Grant	0:00	1085	47	—
Willow Harding	0:00	721	23	—
Ava Hughes	0:00	1268	59	—
Harry Ingram	0:00	1717	88	—
William Irwin	0:00	1249	57	—
Evie Jarvis	0:00	1632	83	—
Mia Jensen	0:00	626	17	—
Ethan Kelly	0:00	1334	63	—
Oscar Knight	0:00	648	18	—
Matilda Larsen	0:00	1504	74	—
Grace Lowe	0:00	1349	64	—
Jasper Mercer	0:00	1283	60	—
Lucas Murphy	0:00	1705	87	—
Harper Newton	0:00	920	36	—
Chloe Nolan	0:00	1862	98	—
Henry OConnor	0:00	1370	65	—
Toby Osborne	0:00	1109	48	—
Georgia Palmer	0:00	926	36	—
Zoe Patel	0:00	793	28	—
Oliver Quinn	0:00	1135	50	—
Angus Rankin	0:00	1623	82	—
Ruby Reid	0:00	1216	55	—
Thomas Singh	0:00	1373	66	—
Maya Sutton	0:00	1563	78	—
Fergus Tobin	0:00	1108	48	—
Isla Turner	0:00	746	25	—
Alice Underhill	0:00	1507	74	—
Charlie Underwood	0:00	1390	67	—
Ella Vaughan	0:00	1836	96	—
Rory Voss	0:00	1441	70	—
Max Walker	0:00	1639	83	—
Hazel Whelan	0:00	1092	47	—
Lily Xu	0:00	1329	63	—
Cody Yates	0:00	1717	88	—
Leo Young	0:00	734	24	—
Amelia Zammit	0:00	1457	71	—
Frankie Zeller	0:00	945	38	—

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 (0.16)

Climbingbest: too few pilots (0.80)

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 (0.20)

Decision-makingbest: some pattern (0.38)

Share of race time spent hunting for the next climb

Gagglebest: could be chance (0.19)

Race craft

best: could be chance (0.16)

best: too few pilots (0.80)

best: could be chance (0.20)

best: some pattern (0.38)

best: could be chance (0.19)