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Digifly's CIVL Rules Compliance

As many of you may already know, the CIVL recently published its official and
finalized document on the model that will be used for distance calculation
during FAI Cat. 1 (World and Continental Championships): the FAI SPHERE.

This is not necessarily the rule for Cat.2s, where organizers may decide not to
use the FAI Sphere and continue to use the WGS84 model instead.

In case any of you are wondering if this affects the coordinates in any way,
don't worry, it doesn't. The coordinates remain the same and it is simply the
model used to calculate the distance that differs.

Digifly is committed to being fully compliant with CIVL rules and regulations
and to enable all of our customers to be compliant as well; this is one of the
reasons why our firmware upgrades are completely free. In order to be ready for
the peak of the competition season, our team decided to implement this feature a
while ago.

The REMINDER in this case, is to make sure that you are well aware of the fact
that our 502m firmware version, officially released some months ago already
comes with this important feature! On the Digifly AIR's MAIN SETUP you will be
able to choose between FAI Sphere and WGS84.

Moreover, the next parameter down, will allow you to set the tolerance, another
feature that was implemented with firmware version 502m!

Actually I think that they have it backwards. It should read:

As many of you may already know, the CIVL recently published its official and
finalized document on the model that will be used for distance calculation
during FAI Cat. 1 (World and Continental Championships): the WGS 84 earth model.

This is not necessarily the rule for Cat.2s, where organizers may decide to use
the FAI Sphere and not use the WGS84 model.