IGC-approval of two new types of recorder

I am pleased to announce the IGC-approval of two new types of GNSS
Flight Recorder. This followed test and evaluation by the IGC GNSS
Flight
Recorder Approval Committee (GFAC) in accordance with Annex B to the
Sporting Code and the Specification for IGC-approved GNSS Flight
Recorders.

The new types of recorder a

1. IMI Erixx V1.0
From: IMI Gliding Equipment, Electronic Devices Section,
Na Klaudiánce 984/12, 14700, Praha-4 (Prague), Czech Republic
Tel: +420 777 283 983
Email:
Web: www.imi-gliding.com

2. EDIATec ECW100F
From: EDIATec GmbH, Im Baumgarten 10, CH-3600 Thun, Switzerland
Tel: +41 33 222 8 222 Fax +41 33 222 8 212
Email: Web: www.ediatec.ch

The IGC-approval documents will appear on the FAI gliding/GNSS web
pages shortly.

This brings the number of IGC-approved recorder types to 41, from 16
different manufacturers. For all of the existing IGC-approval
documents,
see:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/system/fi...proved_frs.pdf

This contains a link to a document with a table of all types of IGC-
approved Flight Recorders, a table of Manufacturers, a list of all
IGC-
approval activity since 1996, and a short history of IGC GNSS Flight
Recording. An updated version of this PDF document adding the new
IGC-
approval has been sent to the webmaster and will also appear shortly.

However, please note that the links to the individual IGC-approval
documents in the above PDF document do not work in Internet Explorer.
Links have therefore been added to the bottom of the page when you
first
go to:

http://www.fai.org/gliding/gnss

At the bottom of the gliding/gnss page, there are links to the
following
documents, and the new IGC-approvals will be added shortly:

aircotecxc.pdf ; cambridge10_20_25.pdf ; cambridge302.pdf ; ew.pdf ;
lxncolibri.pdf ; lxnlx7000.pdf ; nteeasy.pdf ; ntematchbox.pdf ;
peschges.pdf ; ptechnik.pdf ; sdiposigraph.pdf ; themit3.0.pdf ;
zander940.pdf ; zander941.pdf ; gnss_analysis_software.pdf ; ew-
micro.pdf
; garrecht.pdf ; lxndx50.pdf ; lxnlx20.pdf ; lxnlx21.pdf ;
lxnlx5000.pdf ;
flarm-igc.pdf; igc_approved_frs; dsx.pdf; imierixx.pdf

All owners of IGC-approved flight recorders are encouraged to download
the IGC-approval document for their type of recorder. If you have any
comments and/or corrections, please email me.

Ian Strachan
Chairman IGC GFA Committee