On Nov 18, 8:20*pm, toad wrote:
On Nov 18, 1:15*pm, Tony wrote:

Darryl when I was working on my Silver Badge I did eventually get the
point of beating my head on the wall and nearly giving up. Giving up
on doing the paperwork and getting a good trace that is. *I always
seemed to fly further when I didn't have the barograph on board
anyway.

When I was starting doing my Silver Altitude and Duration, I started
with a neat barograph that used thermal paper. *It was easy to get an
altitude trace. *Then I tried to do my Silver distance flight. *One
time doing the paper declaration, camera mounted on the window, grease
pencil mark, etc was enough. *I ordered a Colibri as soon as I got
home from that trip.

It's just so simple.

it was only complicated because you wanted to fly a closed course