IGC-approval for the Triadis Recorder Unit Version 3

I am pleased to announce IGC-approval for the Triadis Recorder Unit Version 3 (Triadis RU3)byTriadis Engineering GmbH, of Messen, Near Berne, Switzerland

The IGC-approval document for the Triadis RU3 and the earlier Triadis Altair RU1 can be found on the IGC and GFAC web sites as given below.

For Validation of the inegrity of IGC files, the IGC Shell program should be used together with IGC-TRI.DLL for the RU1 and IGC-TRI2.DLL for the RU3. The IGC Shell program and FR manufacturers’ DLL files are also available from the GFAC and IGC web sites.

For the GFAC web site:

www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC

The table of IGC-approved FRs is at:

www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/igc_approved_frs.pdf

and the Triadis IGC-approval document is at:

http://www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/ap...dis_altair.pdf

This will display the document in PDF format and it can then be saved.

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For the IGC web site:

http://www.fai.org/gnss-recording-de...ight-recorders

Scroll down to "IGC-Approved Flight Recorders - Approval Documents"
Then click on the box underneath the above heading which says:
"IGC-approval Documents for all IGC-approved Flight Recorders".

This will call up a list of documents, the first one being "IGC-approval tables".

This is followed by IGC-approval documents in alphabetical order of manufacturer’s name. Scroll down to the Recorder type and click on its name. The IGC-approval document will then download automatically to the directory that you have set for downloads, without being displayed on screen first.

The file downloaded by clicking "IGC-approval tables" and also available via the GFAC web site, contains:
(1) a table of all types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders in alphabetical order of manufacturer name.
(2) a table of Manufacturers of IGC-approved Flight Recorders, in alphabetical order of manufacturer name.
(3) a list of all IGC-approval activity from 1996 to the present day.
(4) a history of IGC GNSS Flight Recording.

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There are now 46 types of IGC-approved Flight Recorders from 17 different manufacturers.

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IGC-approval follows test and evaluation by the IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee (GFAC) in accordance with Annex B to the Sporting Code for gliding and the Technical Specification for IGC-approved GNSS Flight Recorders.

The Technical Specification is available through the igc-approved-flight-recorders web site above or directly from the GFAC web site:
http://www.ukiws.demon.co.uk/GFAC/do..._spec_gnss.pdf

The Sporting Code for gliding (SC3) and its annexes A-D may be downloaded via www.fai.org/igc-documents

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Ian Strachan
Chairman, IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee