Colin,
A vario in stand alone logger won't have total energy.
While TE introduces problems it is essential in
modern slippery gliders. In your Blanik , Grunau Baby etc not so much.
We did considerable flight data logging in
developing Dynamis some of it in smooth air
trying to fly accurately at constant airspeed. It
is amazingly difficult and the magnitudes of the
stick lift are quite large even down at 55 to 60 knots.
As a standby vario a non TE vario won't be that
good. I think the Colibri 2 was developed for the
hang and paraglider market primarily where a non TE vario is OK.
Mike
At 03:25 PM 6/12/2014, you wrote:
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Gday Tim and Others,
The Colibri II has the audio plus it
navigates/records etc with a 6 hour battery life of its own.
The audio can be turned off easily when its not required.
And if the agent reads this Im prepared to
accept a small [or even a large ] commission! J
Regards,
Colin
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[mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Tim Shirley
Sent: Saturday, 6 December 2014 3:14 PM
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Tasman New Vario
Hi all,
Thanks heaps to people posting factual
information about products of interest to
soaring pilots. It is so much more useful than
most of the nonsense that passes for comment
here. Even if people are singing the praises of
their own products, I still welcome all such information.
I already have a high-end vario, so I'm not in
the market for yet another magic box that will
transform me into Sebastian Kawa. It didn't
work with the first one either, though I am sure
that is down to me. The instrument works
fine. I also have a Winter vario that performs
well enough as a backup but when I recently had
a fuse blow in flight, I found myself with only
the Winter for a couple of hours and I would
have preferred a bit of audio and an averager.
Of course, such a backup vario doesn't need to
be complex and certainly it should not be
expensive. It just needs to have a backup power
supply onboard the instrument. So what are the options?
Oh, and a reminder to all, I still have a very
nice Discus for sale at a very reasonable price :)
Cheers
Tim Shirley
tra dire é fare c' é mezzo il mare
On 6/12/2014 2:26 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote:
Imitation is the greatest compliment.
Sounds like they've copied most of the features from our B700/900.
We've had the climb improving green light since
the B400/B500 9 years ago and put in the
comparator for the running average/thermal
average as well on the B700 3 years ago and its
more recent linear scale version the B900.
Also the climb audio on/off ratio changes
slightly when climb rate exceeds running
average. B400/B700/B900 can run from 4 x AA
alkaline batteries for hours (power pack but no batteries included).
These are also on the B600/B800 systems which
have an airspeed sensor, advanced vario
processing (optional netto or relative), speed
to fly, glide/nav/wind computer, GPS and
serial output of GPS, air data and settings to
external PNA type glide computers.
All our varios also have a large clear stepper
motor driven pointer of extremely high
resolution. The stepper allows for nearly 360
degree pointer movement (more can be confusing)
giving significantly expanded scales. Most
manufacturers were offering LCD pointer displays
in the 1980s but nearly all have gone to stepper
motor driven pointers. We looked at this around
1987 but didn't like the poor 0.4 knot
resolution that was the best possible. You'd be
really annoyed if say a Winter vario had a
pointer that moved in half knot steps.
All our instruments are available to properly
fit 57mm or 80mm standard holes (adapter plates
not required) and by putting the scales on the
outside of the hole even the 57mm instruments have a larger, clearer display.
The B600/B800 can also take our new Dynamis
sensor for complete 3D real time airmass motion
sensing and no horizontal gust sensitivity.
Expensive (the sensor mainly), but unmatched
capability. A recent customer who fitted a B800 to get an early Dynamis when
available has found he likes the audio better
than the one in the CAI302 it replaced and better than the LX9000 audio.
Mike
At 11:15 AM 6/12/2014, you wrote:
Tasman Instruments have released a completely
new model, the VRM 10 Sprite. It has a lot of
new features such as elapsed time clock,
recorded alarms including under carriage warning
but its best feature is the way it allows you to
more daily centre thermals. It also has up/down
arrows showing whether the climb is improving or
the need to recenter or leave the thermal. It
also has tone selection, fast response and of
course does not need a flask as per the previous Tasman model.
I was lucky to be able to have XON as a test bed
for its development and it has certainly
impressed out syndicate pilots. Worth a look!
Cheers
David Cleland
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