On 5 Mar 2004 11:12:19 GMT, Don Johnstone
wrote:

At 17:06 04 March 2004, Ian Strachan wrote:

snip-
A proposal that badge distances should be allowed for
free flights as
well as pre-declared, was defeated.

Quite right too.

Free flights should not count for badges because an important part of
the badge requirement is to pre-plan a flight that can be done in the
prevailing weather conditions. That's why (in the UK at least)
suitable competition tasks cannot be used to claim badge flights: you
haven't planned the task, only flown it.

Which is hard to understand. Anyone with a programmable
logger can get airbourne and then declare a flight
by entering the details in the logger, and claim a
badge flight.

As others have pointed out, this is plain wrong.


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