On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 6:13:29 PM UTC-8, WaltWX wrote:
Actually... I like the $50 cockpit camera idea. It's simple and commercially available. Place 10 real ones in cockpit ... and the rest look-a-likes. I think it would be easy to detect more than 20 secs of IMC flying, at which point you would be busted.

Walt Rogers WX

I took a look. There are a boatload of inexpensive HD cameras available with a variety of interesting features - they can run on external power, shoot time lapse, record to SD cards of various capacities so you get get 12+ hours of recording, loop recording, multiple mounting options, etc. Turns out car cameras (kind of like police car cameras it seems) are all over the place in addition to sports cameras, FPV cameras, surveillance cameras. Lots to choose from.

I bought a couple of interesting candidates to play with in 2015 to see what might be practical if it comes to the need to verify adherence to FARs and racing rules.

Hopefully people aren't making a habit out of this as a tactic - it is unsportsmanlike, in violation of FARs and potentially a risk to life and property as gliders are not generally equipped for for flight into instrument conditions and certainly not designed for flight into icing conditions. CDs are within their authority to deal with violations in the harshest terms.

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