On Feb 26, 3:56*pm, John Cochrane
wrote:
a silly question from someone who is having a really good laugh about
this discussion (I'm from Germany and therefore not affected):

How are you going to conduct the strip search of any pilot entering
his or her glider (in order to stop him/her from smuggeling a
smartphone on board) ...?



Andreas

Don't bet on not being affected. The IGC is on top of this every bit
as much as the US rules committee, they're just not masochistic enough
to read r.a.s.

There is also a huge difference between instruments sitting right in
the cockpit that everyone can see have artificial horizon displays,
and something you need to hack or smuggle in. The point is to raise
the costs of cheating, and avoid the environment in which each pilot
thinks "all the others are doing it" and feels justified.

Why don't we worry about hacked cell phones and smuggled artificial
horizons? Because anyone who wants to cheat that badly will obviously
put his efforts towards hacking IGC files and smuggling far more
useful electronics on board.

John Cochrane

John,

Can the rules make a differentiation between simple GPS displayed info
such as LK8000 and XCsoar? They have a simple turn and bank which is
simply based on ground track heading changes.

Lane
XF