The pre-Worlds, average score by manufacturer
Pre-Worlds - average scores
One manufacturer did very very well
(Laragne-Montéglin, France)
The average score by manufacturer (thanks for the analysis to Scare). The number of flights used to determine the average score per task flown is in parenthesis. You'll notice that Scott Barrett had four of the six flights used to determine the Airborne average score.
| Airborne | (6) | 632 | |
| Moyes | (136) | 465 | |
| Icaro | (68) | 454 | |
| Aeros | (154) | 453 | |
| Wills Wing | (75) | 412 | |
| Bautek | (4) | 378 | |
| Quasar | (4) | 299 | |
| Condor | (4) | 214 | |
| Avian | (1) | 195 |
Scare also produced a chart by model and size but the published results are unreliable when it comes to the actual model and size as they were not double-checked by the scorekeeper personally, and were wrong, for example, for most of the US team, which flew T2C's, not T2's.
The chart does not allow us to determine if the differences (such as they are) are a result of differences in the average skill levels of the pilot populations flying the various gliders or differences in glider performance. It would be hard to believe that the Airborne C4 13.5 is almost 50% better than the Moyes, Aeros, Icaro, or Wills Wing gliders, for example. It is much more likely that Scott is exceptionally skilled and well as fortunate.
It is clear from the top ten and top twenty results than skilled pilots flying a variety of gliders can do well. No one manufacturer dominated the results.
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