I think it is reasonnable that World Records are
subjected to a higher level of scrutiny than badge,
competition and ladder flights.

There was the case of the spurious British World
Altitude claim in ? the 60s / 70s.

There was a flight log that would have been a world
record (if claimed and validated), mentioned on this
forum, last year. I looked at the trace. It was
clearly not valid, but what had gone wrong was not
clear to me.

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I would support a proposition that tracings for all
world record claims, and for all badge claims were
made accessible to all on the Internet. Logger files
are required for the BGA ladder and AeroKurier Online
Contest. It is not beyond the capabilities of the
authorities to make all world record and badge claim
flights available online. The issue of private
information is a non-issue, because the individual is
making a claim for their performance during a flight,
and a not unreasonnable requirement is for that claim
to be available to scrutiny.

If all such claims were available on the internet,
then I expect that the wider gliding community might
well be able to pick up on and alert the authorities
to a falsified logger.

There are obvious opportunites outside the logger to
falsify a claim eg if a standard class and open class
glider perform a task, and then the logger trace from
the open class glider is submitted as coming from the
standard class glider.

Rory