Ian Strachan
September 9th 13, 10:01 AM
IGC-approval documents for a number of types of Flight Recorders have been updated to include IGC-approval levels that will apply from 1 October 2013.
This is the final stage of a two year process following the 2011 ANDS/GFAC paper on FR Security that was approved by the IGC Bureau and Plenary. On 1 October 2013 the following types of older FR will be at "Badge Flights up to and including Diamonds" level: LX Navigation DX50, LX20, LX21, LX5000; also the SDI Posigraph and Zander 940. This also applies to the LX Navigation Colibri versions 1 and 4, unless updated to Firmware version 8 which includes a security update for which the Approval level is flights for "all IGC badges and Distance Diplomas".
There are 47 different types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders from 17 different manufacturers.
For the GFAC web site, see:
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC
The table of all IGC-approved FRs with links to Approval Documents is at:
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/igc_approved_frs.pdf
This document contains:
(1) a table of all types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders in alphabetical order of manufacturer name, with links to their IGC-approval documents.
(2) a table of Manufacturers of IGC-approved Flight Recorders, in alphabetical order of manufacturer name.
(3) a list of all IGC-approval activity from 1996 to the present day.
(4) a history of IGC GNSS Flight Recording.
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For the IGC web site:
www.fai.org/gnss-recording-devices/igc-approved-flight-recorders
Scroll down to "IGC-Approved Flight Recorders - Approval Documents"
Then click on the box underneath the above heading which says:
"IGC-approval Documents for all IGC-approved Flight Recorders".
This will call up a list of documents, the first one being "IGC-approval tables" with links to individual Approval documents.
This is followed by IGC-approval documents in alphabetical order of manufacturer’s name. Scroll down to the Recorder type and click on its name. The IGC-approval document will then download automatically to the directory that you have set for downloads, without being displayed on screen first.
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IGC-approval follows test and evaluation by the IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee (GFAC) in accordance with Annex B to the Sporting Code for gliding and the Technical Specification for IGC-approved GNSS Flight Recorders.
The Technical Specification is available through the igc-approved-flight-recorders web site above or directly from the GFAC web site:
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/documents/tech_spec_gnss.pdf
The Sporting Code for gliding (SC3) and its annexes A-D may be downloaded via www.fai.org/igc-documents
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Ian Strachan
Chairman, IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC
This is the final stage of a two year process following the 2011 ANDS/GFAC paper on FR Security that was approved by the IGC Bureau and Plenary. On 1 October 2013 the following types of older FR will be at "Badge Flights up to and including Diamonds" level: LX Navigation DX50, LX20, LX21, LX5000; also the SDI Posigraph and Zander 940. This also applies to the LX Navigation Colibri versions 1 and 4, unless updated to Firmware version 8 which includes a security update for which the Approval level is flights for "all IGC badges and Distance Diplomas".
There are 47 different types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders from 17 different manufacturers.
For the GFAC web site, see:
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC
The table of all IGC-approved FRs with links to Approval Documents is at:
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/igc_approved_frs.pdf
This document contains:
(1) a table of all types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders in alphabetical order of manufacturer name, with links to their IGC-approval documents.
(2) a table of Manufacturers of IGC-approved Flight Recorders, in alphabetical order of manufacturer name.
(3) a list of all IGC-approval activity from 1996 to the present day.
(4) a history of IGC GNSS Flight Recording.
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For the IGC web site:
www.fai.org/gnss-recording-devices/igc-approved-flight-recorders
Scroll down to "IGC-Approved Flight Recorders - Approval Documents"
Then click on the box underneath the above heading which says:
"IGC-approval Documents for all IGC-approved Flight Recorders".
This will call up a list of documents, the first one being "IGC-approval tables" with links to individual Approval documents.
This is followed by IGC-approval documents in alphabetical order of manufacturer’s name. Scroll down to the Recorder type and click on its name. The IGC-approval document will then download automatically to the directory that you have set for downloads, without being displayed on screen first.
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IGC-approval follows test and evaluation by the IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee (GFAC) in accordance with Annex B to the Sporting Code for gliding and the Technical Specification for IGC-approved GNSS Flight Recorders.
The Technical Specification is available through the igc-approved-flight-recorders web site above or directly from the GFAC web site:
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/documents/tech_spec_gnss.pdf
The Sporting Code for gliding (SC3) and its annexes A-D may be downloaded via www.fai.org/igc-documents
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Ian Strachan
Chairman, IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee
www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC