Right on Christian. It’s time that the IGC bureaucracy, with its
expensive digs in Switzerland, its authoritarian ivory tower approach
and its penchant for spending other people’s money was brought
back to reality. This is that world-wide, gliding is an expensive,
shrinking sport, and that they would be better off addressing this
vital issue than creating more cost by unilaterally and
heavy-handedly legislating about logger security. Do barographs and
cameras have RSA level security?

U. Werneburg

"CH" wrote in message ...
Well...
looking at the response of this decision I remember what
the Swiss IGC delegate, Mr. Nietlispach, told me once,
because I was trying to forward a proposal to the IGC:

quote
"We (the IGC) tell the gliding community what to do,
not reverse!"
quote

And it does not look like anything would have changed
since then. The IGC has lost track with the needs of the
gliding community and acts like the Vatican.

And when the IGC decided not to handle gliding records
of motorised and non-motorised gliders separately any-
more it laid the grave stone to pure gliding records. I am
sure, that in 5 years no gliding records will exist anymore,
not been flown without a retractable motor.

So - why worry about the "revised IGC approvals" when
you fly a glider without a motor?

Because we cannot be sure, if not tomorrow the IGC
makes the next step to exclude existing loggers to fly
a thousand km and up as well.....
Anything is possible

"We (the IGC) tell the gliding community what to do,
not reverse!"

Ch. Hostettler