At 20:36 26 November 2003, Pat Russell wrote:

What if: a pilot who already holds a world record
uses the same
flight recorder on a flight that beats the old record.
He
submits his claim, gets a new national record, but
is not
allowed to claim a new world record because the flight
recorder
was downgraded in the meantime.

This is not a matter of 'interpretation,' nor has it
ever
existed before. It is merely bizarre.

Pat,

I don't see that as bizarre at all. In any sport equipment
approvals can be changed so that what was OK last year
is not this year. It would be truly bizarre if this
could not be the case.

I find it hard to imagine that anyone in the position
to be going for a world record would be unable to fix
him or herself up with an approved logger for the flight
one way or another.

John Galloway