Thanks, Herb. While I'm well above median glider pilot age, I've only been guiding gliders since 2005, and have only ever used GPS flight recording. So STI was a mystery to me.

-John, Q3


On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 10:56:16 AM UTC-5, wrote:
John,

When writing the note I realized that the 'joke' was probably lost on today's contest pilots. Given the high median age of glider jockeys, I figured there might be some left who remember this. When turn-point cameras were common in the Dark Ages, we had to go through the start gate for repeat starts inside a start time interval that was set as part of the task. The idea was that an enterprising pilot could not start, fly to the 1st turnpoint, take a picture, return and start again (and go to the 2nd turnpoint). This went away with GPS recorders but not without the contest committee dragging their feet for some years.