Cheap GPS Loggers for FAI Badges - Status?

Tony Burton wrote:
The drafters of the Canadian COTS proposal to the last IGC meeting and the
Canadian IGC delgate have been in constant contact recently with Garmin
and the IGC GFAC committee to resolve technical/rules mismatches. It
appears that these are being sorted out for a popular Garmin unit now that
the engineers and the GFAC committee learned to speak each other's
language. :-)

This is news to me, which should be a little bit surprising, given that
I am one of the members of GFAC. I know of the Canadian COTS proposal,
but have heard nothing about it since it was rejected by the IGC.

There is reason to be optomistic that a COTS GPS unit will be approved
within a bureaucratically short period of time.

If by "bureaucratically short period of time" you mean October 2006,
then indeed, there is some finite probability that something could
happen then. IGC rule-making procedures make it impossible for it to
happen any sooner.

Marc