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Old December 3rd 12, 07:08 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Daly[_2_]
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Default World soaring contest logger requirements

On Dec 3, 1:48*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
On Monday, 3 December 2012 10:55:15 UTC-7, Paul Remde *wrote:
Hi,


I received a question from a customer today that I couldn't answer. *He is


going to fly in the World Gliding Contest in Argentina soon and couldn't


figure out whether or not his Cambridge GPS-NAV would be acceptable to the


contest - since it is no longer approved for world records.


I can't seem to find anything in the Sporting Code for world contests - but


I didn't spend too long looking for it.


The customer has several other loggers that will work fine (LX7000 and LXNAV


Nano) - so the GPS-NAV should be a backup only.


Anyone have any idea about this?


I calibrated several loggers while at the World Gliding Contest in Uvalde,


TX in August, but I don't remember whether or not any of them were GPS-NAV


units.


Best regards,


Paul Remde


Cumulus Soaring, Inc.


Dan Daly replied and referenced the appropriate document, though in typical FAI fashion it is hard to find details. *It is up to the local organizers to state the approved FR. *If they do the same as in Uvalde then ...

go tohttp://www.fai.org/igc-documents

click on Free software for IGC file Validation & Downloading
click on IGC-Approved Flight Recorders - Approval Documents
click on IGC-approval Documents for all IGC-approved Flight Recorders

and you will be presented with the list that was updated 8 November 2012

I scored the Open Class at Uvalde and there was at least one pilot that used *GPS-NAV FR used for primary and secondary loggers.

Ron Gleason


And a fine job you did, Ron! Greatly appreciated by the dusty sweaty
masses!

DD