Ian,

It might be useful to clarify the hierarchy, as it's not always 100% clear to people (me included). So, as I understand it:

- "Up to and including Diamonds" means that Diplome Fights and World Records are the only flights that are precluded?
- "all IGC badges and Distance Diplomas" means that only World Record flights are precluded?

Erik Mann

On Monday, September 9, 2013 5:01:13 AM UTC-4, Ian Strachan wrote:
IGC-approval documents for a number of types of Flight Recorders have been updated to include IGC-approval levels that will apply from 1 October 2013.



This is the final stage of a two year process following the 2011 ANDS/GFAC paper on FR Security that was approved by the IGC Bureau and Plenary. On 1 October 2013 the following types of older FR will be at "Badge Flights up to and including Diamonds" level: LX Navigation DX50, LX20, LX21, LX5000; also the SDI Posigraph and Zander 940. This also applies to the LX Navigation Colibri versions 1 and 4, unless updated to Firmware version 8 which includes a security update for which the Approval level is flights for "all IGC badges and Distance Diplomas".



There are 47 different types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders from 17 different manufacturers.



For the GFAC web site, see:



www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC



The table of all IGC-approved FRs with links to Approval Documents is at:



www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/igc_approved_frs.pdf



This document contains:

(1) a table of all types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders in alphabetical order of manufacturer name, with links to their IGC-approval documents.

(2) a table of Manufacturers of IGC-approved Flight Recorders, in alphabetical order of manufacturer name.

(3) a list of all IGC-approval activity from 1996 to the present day.

(4) a history of IGC GNSS Flight Recording.



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For the IGC web site:



http://www.fai.org/gnss-recording-de...ight-recorders



Scroll down to "IGC-Approved Flight Recorders - Approval Documents"

Then click on the box underneath the above heading which says:

"IGC-approval Documents for all IGC-approved Flight Recorders".



This will call up a list of documents, the first one being "IGC-approval tables" with links to individual Approval documents.



This is followed by IGC-approval documents in alphabetical order of manufacturer’s name. Scroll down to the Recorder type and click on its name. The IGC-approval document will then download automatically to the directory that you have set for downloads, without being displayed on screen first.



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IGC-approval follows test and evaluation by the IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee (GFAC) in accordance with Annex B to the Sporting Code for gliding and the Technical Specification for IGC-approved GNSS Flight Recorders.



The Technical Specification is available through the igc-approved-flight-recorders web site above or directly from the GFAC web site:

http://www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/do..._spec_gnss.pdf



The Sporting Code for gliding (SC3) and its annexes A-D may be downloaded via www.fai.org/igc-documents



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Ian Strachan

Chairman, IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee



www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC