Ignorant speculation: Earn Your Wings #5 -- timing?
Jul 3, 2015, 3:01 pm
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Ignorant speculation: Earn Your Wings #5 -- timing?
As I do EYW for the first time, I realize how dependent my own success is on the precise timing of the contest (when I can get flexible time off, weather, and how foolish I've been in booking trips before the contest period starts).
So... anybody wanna hazard a guess as to when the next one will be?
Fall? I don't think they'd start it until the dust has cleared and the points have been confirmed for EYW 4, in mid-September if I remember right. But there were so few changes between 3 and 4 that they could have yet another one ready to go quickly... as long as it finished before the Christmas leisure travel rush. I remember prairie weather as being very variable in November, though.
Winter? I have flexible work that semester, so *I* would approve, but what normal person would do extra flying to somewhere like ORD or YHZ or YTZ in Jan-Mar?
Does that make it next spring, then? Maybe starting a little earlier?
So... anybody wanna hazard a guess as to when the next one will be?
Fall? I don't think they'd start it until the dust has cleared and the points have been confirmed for EYW 4, in mid-September if I remember right. But there were so few changes between 3 and 4 that they could have yet another one ready to go quickly... as long as it finished before the Christmas leisure travel rush. I remember prairie weather as being very variable in November, though.
Winter? I have flexible work that semester, so *I* would approve, but what normal person would do extra flying to somewhere like ORD or YHZ or YTZ in Jan-Mar?
Does that make it next spring, then? Maybe starting a little earlier?
Jul 3, 2015, 4:33 pm
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Speculation is pointless.
1 was spring 2013
2 was fall 2013
3 was fall 2014
4 was summer 2015
They do it when they feel like it
1 was spring 2013
2 was fall 2013
3 was fall 2014
4 was summer 2015
They do it when they feel like it
Jul 3, 2015, 6:37 pm
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Jul 4, 2015, 7:14 pm
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I can't find the cow's post on this (I think he said he paid about $5K, although I'm sure he'll add more detail later) ... but ALC is on record as paying $4800, for (assuming a top 20 finish) ~600K AP miles - or 0.8 cpm
The blog indicates that parts of AC seem to be operated at random.
Jul 4, 2015, 7:28 pm
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I can't find the cow's post on this (I think he said he paid about $5K, although I'm sure he'll add more detail later) ... but ALC is on record as paying $4800, for (assuming a top 20 finish) ~600K AP miles - or 0.8 cpm
Jul 5, 2015, 7:48 am
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I moved the discussion over to the EYW v.4 thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...dition-50.html
I was partly to blame for derailing this thread which is simply speculating about timing of v.5
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-c...dition-50.html
I was partly to blame for derailing this thread which is simply speculating about timing of v.5