Eric Greenwell wrote:
Andrew Warbrick wrote:

At 18:06 20 September 2005, Marc Ramsey wrote:

If one argues that it is silly to be concerned about these things for
badges, then I (and
others) will ask: why don't we simply accept the pilot's signed
statement
that a badge flight was completed as stated, and require no further
evidence?

Marc

Just because if we follow the COTS proposal more pilots will learn how
to use the whole system. How to declare a task, how to record the glider
path, how to analyze these logs etc-etc. The main issue: as side effect
they will learn how easy to fly a task with GPS support!
The badge system should motivate pilots to do something more. The
whole soaring community could benefit if more people could discover XC
and other special (wave) soaring adventures. Next step could be a
contest or a new world record with "real" loggers
IGC is about to coordinate soaring on the whole world and not only the
part where IGC approved loggers are easy to reach...

Eric:

here is the COTS proposal:
http://bauerj.fw.hu/vitorla/COTS/PRO...PROVE_COTS.htm
I don't know if this is the latest version but at least it gives you
some more details.

/jancsika