On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 07:31:49 -0700, Max Kellermann wrote:

On Friday, August 16, 2013 4:12:11 PM UTC+2, Papa3 wrote:
Paul was simply restating the long-held position espoused by the IGC's
GFAC.

That was not the part I replied to.

You're absolutely correct here.

Remember the faked 500km flight by an ASK-13 (in 2011?) that caused all EW
loggers apart from the MicroRecorder to be immediately removed from the
IGC valid loggers list? AFAIK its never been established whether that was
done by writing a program that fed spoofed NMEA sentences to an actual EW
logger or whether it generated a fabricated IGC file that pretended to
have been made by an EW logger with an external GPS.

Either way it was an apparently valid, but faked, IGC log file that was
only rumbled because a successful 500km flight in an ASK-13 is, ahem,
unlikely.

I imagine that quite a few of us would like to know their identity so we
could bill them for the cost of replacing the loggers they made non-
compliant. Mine was an EW Model D.


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