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Broke Airline Pilot needs "stuff" for an ASW-15B
On Oct 23, 8:12*pm, Brad wrote:
is there any hope that XC-Soar will get IGC approval for their logger? Brad On Oct 23, 7:57*am, BB wrote: On Oct 22, 8:06*pm, wrote: I need a: 1. GPS data logger thats contest worthy 2. PDA device and connections Current US contest rules require "category 1" (IGC blessed) or "category 2" (see the list) recorders except for sports regionals where "category 3" recorders meaning just a pda software are allowed. See the rules http://www.ssa.org/files/member/Rules2008Regional.pdf There is a proposal before the rules committee to allow some Commercial Off The Shelf (typcially Garmin) units, plus G7towin or similar software, as category 2 recorders. These would cost about $150 and seem to provide adequate security. On the other hand, I'm not sure how long category 3 will last, even in sports class. It's just too tempting to open the file with notepad, elminate those two fixes in the restricted area, change a few altitudes from 18101 feet to 17499 feet etc. Loggers that don't make a G record, which can be too easily spoofed into making one on fake data, or for which winscore can't verify security via DLLs may not last long. With that in mind, if you suspect you'll be in contest soaring for a while, I'd recommend blowing the bucks on a category 1 or 2 recorder. This will avoid what everyone else goes through, blowing 3 times the money on a sequence of "cheap" alternatives that you then abandon. Otherwise, I'd wait until December to see what the RC comes up with in the ongoing logger saga. John Cochrane BB Yes XCSoar has been approved for OLC, and final testing is being done now. The next release will have OLC validation. A great news for a great program! Mike |
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