This whole AH / contest debate has reached the point that this morning
XCSoar posted the following on Facebook:

"XCSoar is about to be banned from US soaring competitions. In fact they are
thinking about banning all free, open source applications because they can
not control whether these applications may implement artificial horizons and
other functionality. Apparently the rule makers don't seem to understand how
easy it is to install and use a different app for that... We would like to
ask our US fans to talk to their contacts and put some pressure on the rules
committee to prevent this. If the US will go through with this it is only a
small step until the FAI/IGC think about similar "solutions" to much greater
problems!"

I have flown with both XCSoar and am currently flying with LK8000. These
are great pieces of free software that have evolved to the point that they
have surpassed the capabilities of most, if not all, commercially available
products.

I do hope the XCSoar's Facebook posting is in error allowing resource
limited pilots to compete without having to purchase an inferior product
just for the purpose of contest flying.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"


"Brad" wrote in message
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On Feb 9, 10:07 am, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
To be clear, the requirement is not part of the HP-24 design.

Thanks, Bob K.

So it looks like my Tetra-15 will not be able to compete because I
elected to install an AH for safety reasons.

That's ok................it makes it easier now to continue with
recreational flying rather than see how well it and I might have done
in competition.

Brad