New FAI Sporting Code

The FAI has revised Section 3 of the Sporting Code again.

Some highlights - er, lowlights:

On page 4 (and several other places) there is this note:
"At the IGC meeting 2004, it was decided that at some future date verification of badge flights will require the use of a flight recorder. Other means of verification shown in this edition of the Sporting Code will no longer be accepted.
October 2004"

Is there an epidemic of falsified barograph traces out there that nobody told us about?

On page 15 there is this:
"The Silver [badge] distance flight should be flown without navigational or other assistance given over the radio (other than permission to land on an airfield) or help or guidance from another aircraft."

Are these guys aware that flight recorders use GPS and that GPS is a navigation system using radio signals?