Cameras and barographs

On Sep 27, 8:00 am, Ian Cant
wrote:
Out of curiosity, has anyone 'recently' attempted a
badge flight using a camera or ground observers ?
Did it get accepted by SSA without added hassle ?

I guess a digital camera is completely out of the question
!

Ian

At 14:42 27 September 2007, Toad wrote:



On Sep 27, 10:06 am, Chip Bearden wrote:
On Sep 27, 9:11 am, toad wrote:

I also wanted to land back where I took off :-)

That's hard to do without the camera or logger.

Todd

Hard but not impossible. Back in the 'olden days,'
you were allowed to
use observers. On more than one occasion my father
radioed the FBO at
a local turnpoint and got him to come out and 'observe'
him (5,000
feet above!) as he crossed the airport. Then my dad
would send the guy
a letter with a pre-filled form to sign and a stamped,
self-addressed
envelope, and receive it a week later. OK, it was
kludgy but it was
possible. - Hide quoted text -

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According to the Badge Lady, my Gold Distance flight (July 06) was the
ONLY baro and turnpoint camera badge she processed in all of 2006. I
am currently OO preparing a Diamond Goal badge claim for another club
member, and it's a LOT more work than a claim using a Certified Flight
Recorder.
Still, I'd like to smoke up another foil, mount up the camera, and do
one more badge flight that way before I retire the Baro forever....

On Sep 27, 8:46 pm, wrote:
On Sep 27, 8:00 am, Ian Cant
wrote:





Out of curiosity, has anyone 'recently' attempted a
badge flight using a camera or ground observers ?
Did it get accepted by SSA without added hassle ?

I guess a digital camera is completely out of the question
!

Ian

At 14:42 27 September 2007, Toad wrote:

On Sep 27, 10:06 am, Chip Bearden wrote:
On Sep 27, 9:11 am, toad wrote:

I also wanted to land back where I took off :-)

That's hard to do without the camera or logger.

Todd

Hard but not impossible. Back in the 'olden days,'
you were allowed to
use observers. On more than one occasion my father
radioed the FBO at
a local turnpoint and got him to come out and 'observe'
him (5,000
feet above!) as he crossed the airport. Then my dad
would send the guy
a letter with a pre-filled form to sign and a stamped,
self-addressed
envelope, and receive it a week later. OK, it was
kludgy but it was
possible. - Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

According to the Badge Lady, my Gold Distance flight (July 06) was the
ONLY baro and turnpoint camera badge she processed in all of 2006. I
am currently OO preparing a Diamond Goal badge claim for another club
member, and it's a LOT more work than a claim using a Certified Flight
Recorder.
Still, I'd like to smoke up another foil, mount up the camera, and do
one more badge flight that way before I retire the Baro forever....- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

someday my barograph will not fail, and she will have a Silver Badge
to process on paper.

unless of course someone decides to bankroll a flight recorder for me.