DUMB ROOKIE QUESTION

Travis Beach wrote:
OK...just getting starting in all of this...bought
my first ship and now looking to update the panel...so
heres the question...with the use of PDA driven Glide
Computers, moving maps and recently OLC approval on
the GPS logging...why would someone still spend $2K
+ on a GPS Logger? I mean with the computing power
of a PDA coupled to a GPS or GPS card and the software
from SeeYouMobile and others...why would you carry
a GPS logger?

GPS cards attached to a PDA are not legally accepted for US contests.
Many scorers take them anyway, and don't ask where igc files come from,
but you can't be sure of that. You don't need a certified logger, but
you do need something that internally produces a trace with altitude
info, not just the igc file produced in the PDA by seeyou mobile, GNII
or similar. You can also bug the rules committee to change this, at
least for regionals, as I do annually.

John Cochrane BB