Micropeak approved fo rNAR?

I saw in various places that the Micropeak altimeter is approved for use in NAR events. (one link: https://altusmetrum.org/News.html)

Yet when I go to the Pink Book, it's not yet there: https://www.nar.org/pinkbook/G_altimeters.html

I know this is the sort of thing that sometimes takes a while to be updated, but I'm curious because I want to make sure it's approved not only for contest use but also for record use. Anyone know when the Pink Book will be updated or can point me to a place that indicates with confidence whether it will be approved for records?

I don't know the answer, but I forwarded your inquiry to someone who will either A) know the answer, or B) know who does.

-Kevin

The MicroPeak is indeed approved, effective 5 days ago (April 1). Note that altimeter-based record attempts have special provisions for data reporting outlined in 14.10.3, to ensure the altitude reported is not due to ejection charge transients or a thermal.

I anticipate that the pink book altimeter list will be updated shortly.

--tc

How often does the online version of the pink book get updated? The approved altimeter list is still from 2012.

The official record of NAR contest board activities is on a Yahoo discussion forum here:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/contestRoc/info

You can read the announcement of MicroPeak being added to the approved altimeter list here:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/contestRoc/conversations/messages/33872

I suspect you'll need to join the group to be able to read the message.

I'm not sure how this is advertised; I happened to find out about it from someone on the forum who knew me...

keithp said:

How often does the online version of the pink book get updated? The approved altimeter list is still from 2012.

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I assume the lack of updates is an issue with administrative access to the update their NAR webpages. This has been a perpetual problem for S&T. We maintain and update the several thousand NAR S&T webpages several times a month but almost every quarter someone will change something somewhere else on the NAR website and we loose administrative access to the S&T webpages and have to hound the NAR web folks to get it back.

Bob

Would it be possible then to set up a separate S&T site, and leave a permanent link in the NAR website?

Gerald

G_T said:

Would it be possible then to set up a separate S&T site, and leave a permanent link in the NAR website?

Gerald

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It would be possible and desirable. Getting the NAR Board to approve it would be a challenge.