Badges ? ... We don't need no stinkin' badges

Kilo Charlie wrote:
On several occasions here in Arizona, someone has offered to lend a flight
logger to a pilot so that they may use it for a badge attempt. If you only
need it for a day or two that works great as long as you fly where there are
other folks and that they are willing to do that. Obviously you'll need
power to the logger and if it doesn't have a GPS as part of it will need to
borrow one of those too. Seems like that may be the easiest solution if
you're just wanting it for a flight or two.

Casey Lenox
KC
Phoenix


Where I come from it is not unheard of to lend the whole glider with the logger
in it to someone who wants to fly a badge, and does not have a suitable personal
aircraft. My Cirrus has done four Silver Cs that way.

What goes round comes round - next time you need a retrieve, and it certainly
helps the club/community thing...

--
Bruce Greeff
Std Cirrus #57
I'm no-T at the address above.

Quick - where did the line "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
come from?

"ContestID67" wrote in message
ups.com...
Quick - where did the line "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
come from?

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Tim Ward

Give that man a free $100 tow.

With Humphrey Bogart. Great dark movie about human greed.

- John

and there was me thinking it was a reference to UHF (weird Al Jankovic)

Raul to television audience: "Today we're teaching poodles to fly."
Raul to delivery man with truckload of badgers: "Badgers!? We don't need no
steenking badgers!"

um..I guess you have to hear that in context.

ContestID67 wrote:
Quick - where did the line "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
come from?


Mel Brooks "Blazing Saddles"

Tony V.

First known usage:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Gold Hat (Mexican): "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no
badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges."

Mike

Tony Verhulst wrote:
ContestID67 wrote:
Quick - where did the line "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
come from?


Mel Brooks "Blazing Saddles"

Tony V.

Ok, I didn't get the quote quite right. I was going for the Treasure of
the Sierra Madre allusion.

The question remains, is cheating in badge flights so rampant as to
justify the cost difference between secure and non secure igc files? I
mean really, in a land of conspiracy theories, I could always get
someone else to do the flying for me.

The truth is, I would like to have that Gilligan's Island hat with the
the pins. I guess I'll wait until I can borrow a logger (a real
possibility) or until I buy a logger for contest purposes.

In the meantime, I'll have fun flying. I hope everyone else does too.
It was never my intention to denigrate badge flying or those who pursue
badges.

Doug

Doug,

The answer is no. There is no reason why for most country specific
badges a GPS trace is not good enough. We should allow that for all
flights up to gaining the gold badge. We need to lower the cost and
encourage badge flying. It builds skills and discipline that make
better cross-country pilots. We have let the paranoid take over again.
If someone wants to cheat on a badge that is their problem. No one
but ourselves care about what we did to earn the badge.

I have old cameras you can have if you want them and I have an EW-D
logger you can barrow if you would like to try some badge flights. All
you need is a Garmin GPS to feed a signal to it.

I just got news today that my diamond badge was approved. Only took 14
years to get that pesky altitude gain knocked off. And yes, it was
worth the trouble to get it.

Tim

ttaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:


I have old cameras you can have if you want them and I have an EW-D
logger you can barrow if you would like to try some badge flights. All
you need is a Garmin GPS to feed a signal to it.

Or any other cheap mouse type GPS. The final igc file will be fine
This badge&cheap GPS issue come up year by year. Few enthusiastic
pilot joined and created COTS proposal to IGC but nothing has changed so
far

/Janos