Senior Project, recording equipment, and economic stimulus.

RAS,

I graduate with a degree in Aerospace Engineering in December. Ive
decided to entitle my senior project: "Flight Test Evaluation of a
Cherokee II Sailplane"

It makes perfect sense to me that the culmination of my education
should involve me flying my glider, and perhaps allowing me to improve
my flying (yea right). Mostly, I just want it to involve some
flying. I had a short chat with Dick Johnson at the SSA Convention
about his technique. He mentioned his stopwatch method that has
worked for years, but also said that on his most recent flights he has
taken a flight recorder with him and the results matched pretty well.

Id like to generate the drag polar for my glider. I talked to my
project advisor briefly and he had me check out http://www.eagletreesystems.com/
which makes data recorders for RC aircraft. The cool thing is that I
could get airspeed and altitude readouts for the entire flight, and
then find the polar from that.

President Bush will be mailing me a pretty nice economic stimulus
check at the end of the month. I plan to do my civic duty and spend
it. are there any igc approved loggers that i could use not only for
records/badges/OLC etc. but also that would give me the flight
information that I need to do my senior project?

You all are the experts on the logger stuff. Ive breezed over the
million post threads so it must be so. What do you recommend?