On 12 Feb, 10:37, "Bert Willing"
wrote:
What a nonsense, Ian. In the ancient times, people wanting to get a badge
needed to buy a barograph and a camera, and if I recall correctly, they
weren't cheap - typically more expensive than a logger today.
So, what changed is the technology, not the price tag.

Sure, barographs were expensive. Cameras less so - Instamatic 110
cartridge jobs were never up there in Hasselblad range.

But lots of us have mechanical barographs. Thousands and thousands of
us have mechanical barographs. Would it really be so awful to allow us
to keep using them? To a Ventus owner a flight recorder is lost in the
noise. To a Pirat jockey such as myself it's pushing 25% of the value
of the glider.

Ian