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Old May 29th 12, 02:45 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tony[_5_]
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Default Position Recorders, Accuracy, and Badge altitude gains

On Monday, May 28, 2012 1:59:19 PM UTC-5, uros wrote:
I have checked both flights and for the first flight it seems to me
that the flight recorder was turned on too late. Every GPS needs some
time to find correct position and when the GPS is moving this time is
even longer. The correct procedure is to turn on the GPS few minutes
before the flight so that GPS could correctly find first position and
will start recording correctly. These jumps could be easily detected
and the recording would be cut off.


Sure I know that you should turn it on on the ground but I forgot. And with turning it on in flight of course it will take a little time to "find itself". However why on earth doesn't it wait until it has found itself to start recording fixes? And even then, why was it recording fixes over 2000 ft too high if it had found itself?