Mitch - there is no shortage of advice here, but has anyone answered your
question?
FLARM and Conflict avoidance equipment.
It would appear that many in the gliding community have come to the
conclusion that FLARM is the answer to in flight collision avoidance,
but is it?
But let's not get
Stuart
I agree.
People who answer their favourite question, but don't change the subject
line just don't know much about internet etiquette.
Guys, if you want to push FLARM, put it in the subject/title. [that
way I can automatically screen]
Please,
I will continue to use mark one eyeball
Stuart Kerri FERGUSON wrote:
But let's not get too excited, only 300 gliders or approx 30% of the
Australian glider fleet has been fitted.
If that's true, then it's pretty amazing after, oh, I dunno, about a year.
Can you think of anything else that's penetrated that far through the
gliding
This looks interesting
http://www.avweb.com/news/pilotlounge/193599-1.html
Mike
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Mitch,
ebay or www.dyscern.com or similar, search 4700, pda cost around $450
Bluetooth gps around $100 ebay, 20 hour battery
XCsoar free,
sorry blew your budget $50
PDA should be tax deductable though
Wayne
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Ouch.
I paid $100 for an Ipaq 3600 and $80 for a CompactFlash GPS. $180 for
moving map and glide computer. This needn't be an expensive exercise
Tom
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From: Wayne Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Alan Wilson wrote:
Stuart
I agree.
People who answer their favourite question, but don't change the subject
line just don't know much about internet etiquette.
Guys, if you want to push FLARM, put it in the subject/title. [that
way I can automatically screen]
Please,
I will continue to
Mitch - there is no shortage of advice here, but has anyone answered your
question?
FLARM and Conflict avoidance equipment.
It would appear that many in the gliding community have come to the
conclusion that FLARM is the answer to in flight collision avoidance,
but is it?
But let's not get too
On 08/11/2006, at 15:32, David Lawley wrote:
If FLARM were to have an IGC approved logger it would really make
it very
worthwhile to buy though-is this possible?
Unfortunately due to the huge expense in getting approval this is not
going to happen - and it would put the price of the
Well, I finally received my new lenses. (The first pair had the Zeiss logo
on the lens - right in my field of view - but now I have two lenses without
logos. It took six weeks for the replacement to arrive.)
Like several others who commented, I'm impressed. The combination of
polarisation (I've
I think it will happen one day - I think it is inevitable. But I also
think it is 20 years away. That might be pessimistic, but in other
ways it is also very optimistic :-)
FLARM has not been around long enough to have statistics to prove the
safety - therefore it is all predictions. It is
There are several PDA's with both SD and CF slots,I use an Ipaq 2210. If
you use a CompactFlash
GPS and a SD card all are powered from the PDA whereas if you use
Bluetooth you need another
power cable or trust that the battery in it will last for the flight.
Dennis
Ipaq
Just a note of caution on the iPAQ4700.
They are still available.
A nice unit.
There are 3 at our club.
However, they shut down when they reach around 40 degrees C.
There is an internal temperature sensor, set too low for our conditions.
Fortunately, the PDA can be turned on again with the on/off
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