In article , Marc Ramsey
wrote:

If by "bureaucratically short period of time" you mean October 2006,
then indeed, there is some finite probability that something could
happen then. IGC rule-making procedures make it impossible for it to
happen any sooner.

Marc, it occurs to me that this may not necessarily be so as long as the
IGC rules for FRs don't have to change in order to introduce a specific
COTS GPS. For example, each FR approved by the the GFAC comes with an
"approval document" which delineates how that FR must be used, OO actions,
etc.

So, say that some Garmin GPS is ICG-compliant except for the barograph
function. Could not such an FR be approved by the IGC GFAC committee with
the restriction in its approval document that it could not be used for
height evidence?

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Tony Burton