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Old November 1st 08, 12:33 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Pat Russell
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Default Gary Osoba's record flight declined

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:47:59 -0700 (PDT), Ramy
wrote:

No Gary, it was not your fault. One can not possibly keep up with such
bureaucracy.


Agreed.

Furthermore, the disapproval of the Model 20 is based on nonsense. It
has been deemed by IGC to be a security risk because it uses a single
secret key. A single key system in a different logger was broken
once, as an experiment. Consequently, all single key systems are
disapproved. This is painting with a broad brush. Sort of like not
trusting the lock on my bank because someone once jimmied the lock on
my suitcase. No one has ever broken Cambridge security.

IGC have done a lot of good for our sport, but in this case they have
hurt it.

Congratulations on a terrific flight, Gary!

Pat