Don Johnstone wrote:
I stand corrected. My original query still stands.
Where cameras and smoky barographs were used I can
see the sense of a 'declaration'. With GPS do we really
need it, surely the criteria should be the distance
flown and this can now be positively verified with
a data logger. Why complicate something so simple?
A 300k or 500k downwind dash ie free distance is ok
so why not a triangle

It's not a matter of technology, but philosophy. Cameras or GPS
recorder, you can still make a witnessed takeoff and fly an undeclared
flight. The declared flight definitely predates cameras! I don't know
the history well, but certainly it is a more difficult task to achieve,
and this gives it more value to many of us. Lately, undeclared tasks
have been added, at least for records, so perhaps the philosophy is
changing.

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Eric Greenwell
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