World soaring contest logger requirements

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 to http://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

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