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If
you are planning to fly for badges and or records, please educate
yourself about the procedures and the equipment. Most of that activity is nowadays done with approved loggers. BASA does not own / provide any loggers. Soar Minden rents approved electronic barographs. For records or badges an approved barograph (and camera) can still be used. We still have the old fashioned mechanical (Repogle) and the electromechanical (Aerograph) barographs These can be calibrated (soon) after the flight. They can be shipped to Carl Herold for calibration. The Aerograph uses blue wax paper in which the trace is scribed. This paper could be obtained in the past from High Country Soaring in Minden. This equipment is useally in the BASA Mountain maintenance trailer (although I did see a Repogle barograph in the Hollister trailer) The status of above mentioned BASA equipment is at best unknown. You may safely assume that the batteries in the Aerograph are dead, although it does have a cable to connect to the ship battery. For the Repogle, count on having to search for paper, pens, smoking equipment, etc. The message here: if you want to go for badges, you have 2 options: - take the easy way and call Soar Mindenn to inquire about availability and reservations of their barographs/loggers - take the nostalgic way and use the BASSA stuff. Prepare yourself ahead of the wavecamp in learning how to operate this stuff. You don't want to return from your Diamond flight to conclude that you forgot to wind the mechanical barograph !!   |