Partially for purist and self righteous reasons, I avoid the use of a flight
computer or GPS while soaring. I like to look at the map and look out the
canopy to figure out where I am and if I am high enough. With this approach
I am free to feel a little snobby that I am not depending on a flight
computer or GPS to tell me where I am or how much fun I am having. When I
wanted a flight record other than my log book entry, I'd smoke up the drum
of my Winter barograph and make a trace. This low tech way I also save more
money for tows.

Well, I am starting to think that a GPS flight log from might be a neat
thing to have for flight records. At the same time I want to minimize the
risk to my self righteousness and to my skinny pocket book as well.

What I would like to do is identify a GPS model or so that I could pick up
on ebay for not a lot of money and that I could use to log flights and
download them to my computer. So as not damage my righteous flying style,
I'd plan to turn the GPS on to log, stick in in the bag behind my head in my
Libelle, and then fly like I normally do, with my eyes, my glide card, and
with my map. I go as far not wanting to look at any sort of GPS display
while flying. Maybe in time I will ease into that.

I need to figure out what would some good GPS to my purposes. In search of
such items I have searched RAS and the web and have found a couple good
references, but not a lot mo

http://www.forsterlewis.com/soaring/...gps/index.html

http://www.forsterlewis.com/soaring/.../garminfr.html

If anyone can suggest some GPS models, including some older ones, that don't
necessarily have fancy mapping features but would have enough memory for a
good trace of a ten hour flight, I would greatly appreciate it.

David Grah
Bishop, California
H301 Libelle N11GV