On Sunday, February 22, 2015 at 12:45:16 AM UTC-5, Bill T wrote:
I don't think Repolge barographs are accepted any more? Many years ago SSA told us we were the only submitter that year using a Repolge and film..
I thought it now had to be a digital recorder?
Most "approved" recorders have a baro record for altitude, along with the GPS altitude.

Someone at your field may have a portable recorder, Nano's are great.
BillT

The removal of mechanical barographs from the Sporting Code was proposed at last year's FAI/IGC Plenary meeting (Varese, ITA, 7-8 March 2014) as a Year One proposal. It is on the agenda for this year's Plenary (to be held at Lausanne SUI 27-28 February 2015) as a Year Two proposal. IF accepted, it will be incorporated into the Sporting Code this October 1st (end of northern hemisphere season, start of southern hemisphere season). See http://www.fai.org/igc-about-us/igc-meetings ; scroll down to para 8.1.9. Click "Sporting Code Committee Proposals". So, they can currently be used; it is POSSIBLE (perhaps probable) that this will be the last northern hemisphere season where they will be acceptable.

It takes two years for most changes to be made; an initial proposal, questions, comments, requests for change, then a final proposal, vote, and if accepted, the process to incorporate it into the next Sporting Code.

One gotcha; when I went to the fai pages, I initially couldn't find the agenda with links that had this, in the "documents" link where I expected it; it was cleverly hidden in the "about us" link under "meetings". As of this morning, it is in "documents" under "meetings".

If you want a break from shoveling snow, you can click through the links and read each proposal; reports from OSTIV, voting for locations of future World Contests (eg. - 1st PAGC handicaps are mentioned). You can watch, over the years, the progress in the Sporting Code. The changes proposed for this year may mean the SC is 80% the length of the current code, theoretically much simpler, and separates badge flying from records (which as any casual reader of the sporting code knows, greatly complicates and frustrates neophyte badge fliers (and their OOs)). Good, thankless work by the Sporting Code committee.

2D