Cost of flight loggers

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In article <61dktbF1ttqlpU1@mid.>, Jim Beckman
<jamesbeckman@> writes
>> What a nonsense, Ian. In the ancient times, people
>>
>> wanting to get a badge needed to buy a barograph and
>>
>> a camera, and if I recall correctly, they weren't
>>cheap -
>> typically more expensive than a logger today.
>> So, what changed is the technology, not the price
>>tag.
>
>But the comparison ought to be between the cost of
>a logger that's approved, and one that isn't. To produce
>a flight log, it isn't necessary to spend more than
>a hundred dollars. The technology is available, and
>it's cheap, but we aren't allowed to use it.
>
>Jim Beckman (NJ)
>
Jim,

If the proposed changes are approved; for badges up to Gold, you will be
able to use some Off-the-shelf GPS units, and I would expect 'some' to
include the more recent products from Garmin.

Tim Newport-Peace tnp@spsys.

"Indecision is the Key to Flexibility."

On Feb 14, 10:42 pm, Peter Purdie
<REMOVE_TO_REPLY.pe...@afeonline.com> wrote:
<snip>
>
> Soaring is cheap compared to most other sports (if
> you play golf too, how much did that bagful you tote
> around cost? And as for boats.......)

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There are ways and ways of doing other sports. In the UK (and I
presume the US) dinghy sailing can be a very cheap sport - $1,000 to
buy a second-hand boat, $100 per year for club membership and
insurance, and if it's a plastic boat the maintenance costs are very
low. The same with golf in Scotland - lots of municipal courses which
are relatively cheap. They don't have to be swanning around in a 50'
ketch or playing the Old Course.

When I started I compared the costs to night-clubbing for a smoker (I
do neither) and I reckon a nigh-clubber who smokes spends more on that
per year than I do on gliding, despite EASA and the rest of it. And I
have an asset I can sell (the golider!) unlike the night-cluber - what
price a hang-over? :)

I keep seeing reference to COTS units replacing the camera and barograph for Gold-and-under badges.
NO! It will only replaces the camera. GPS altitude is not going to be accepted for height
verification. Hold onto your Winters.