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