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Old February 24th 12, 04:51 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default US Rules Committee to ban XC Soar in US soaring competitioneffective immediately? - Ahh the "genius!"

On Feb 24, 11:46*am, Karl Kunz wrote:
Will they also ban bringing cell phones. Many smartphone apps provide better "apps for that" then XCSoar. * The smartphones have better sensors then a GPS based attitude indicators which have to much lag time to be really useful.


If you are speaking of gyro horizon type displays, those have always
been prohibited in competition. That's true for just about everywhere
people race gliders.

-Evan Ludeman / T8