Groutings forum,
I'm toying with the notion of buying a GPS unit; budget around $500.
What makes and models may be recommended by your good selves?
Sandshoe fairy mulch,
Mitch Preston.
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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
If its just for soaring, a PDA with GPS pluggin running XCsoar or Mobile
SeeYou
Tom
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Groutings forum,
I'm toying with the notion of buying
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A few of us at our club have
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If its just for soaring, a PDA with GPS pluggin running XCsoar or Mobile
SeeYou
Tom
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If the glider is already fitted with OzFlarm, its GPS and its barometric
sensor output works well with XCSoar on a PDA. No need for a GPS plugin for
the PDA.
A.J.
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If you choose the blue tooth option be sure to always clear running
programs. Blue tooth wants active sync and that slows the connection
down to never sometimes.
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> I think the better option is the CompactFlash sleeve with the
CompactFlash
> GPS. I use one with Winpilot on my Ip
Mitchell Preston wrote:
I'm toying with the notion of buying a GPS unit; budget around $500.
What makes and models may be recommended by your good selves?
I suggest that you consider a FLARM plus an iPaq running mSeeYou. This
will not only provide you with an in cockpit GPS system, with final
g
Can someone give me an email address for the Collibri agent.
Best wishes,
John Hudson
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> I'm toying with the notion of buying a GPS unit; budget around $500.
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Some excellent advice here David, except:
On 08/11/2006, at 13:11, David Lawley wrote:
A flarm alone will blow your budget, without PDA etc, and is next
to useless
for collision avoidance unless ALL other gliders have one. They are
easily
fitted with Velcro to the top of instrument panels if
kout!
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Dave L
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Some excell
t continue to keep a good lookout!
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Dave L
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"once you have 2 gliders with FLARM"
Agreed Scott, however here in SA there are very few FLARMS I know of (in
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Adelaide Soaring Club in SA now has all club gliders fitted with FLARM and
is in the process of installing them in the tugs. Most of the money for them
was raised by asking for donations from club members. There are 5 private
gliders that also
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Some excellent advice here David, except:
On 08/11/2006, at 13:11, David Lawley wrote:
A flarm alone will blow your budget, without PDA etc, a
ned for it most glider
battery problems would be solved.
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Adelaide Soaring Club in SA now has all club gliders fitted with FLARM and
is in the proce
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
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 FL
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
with 24
volts, and instrument power supplies were designed for it most glider
battery problems would be solved.
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> 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 w
David Lawley wrote:
A flarm alone will blow your budget, without PDA etc, and is next to useless
for collision avoidance unless ALL other gliders have one. They are easily
fitted with Velcro to the top of instrument panels if a temporary setup in a
club ship is required (Plenty of this happened a
At 09:00 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
Wrt to issue of GPS vs barometric altitude and driving things like
mSeeYou's final glide calcs and varion, there is no problem in
principal. However, the stability of altitude from a barometric unit
is very significantly higher than that provided by 'GPS al
On 08/11/2006, at 4:22 PM, Philip Ritchie wrote:
Funny story - A pilot brought one over from WA to the last
Nationals and only then found out it wasn't working properly as
there was no other FLARM in WA to link up with.
Sort of sad and lonely really.
Honestly, that story isn't sad and l
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At 09:00 AM 10/11/2006, you wrote:
>Wrt to issue of GPS vs barometric altitude and driving things
>like
>mSeeYou's final glide calcs and varion, there is no problem in
>principal. However, the stability of
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> On 08/11/2006, at 4:22 PM, Philip Ritchie wrote:
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> >
At 07:12 AM 11/11/2006, you wrote:
Mike,
Are the newer Sirf-III GPS units any better for gliding in these
regards??
Thanks,
Jim Kelly
Jim,
The 12 channel Garmin is actually pretty good. There are better units
than the Sirf III chip which in the implementation I've seen is
optimised for ca
Simon Hackett wrote:
Honestly, that story isn't sad and lonely, its mildly frightening.
In particular, it highlights that you can mandate at a comp that
everyone has a FLARM unit, but you (obviously) can't mandate that they
all work - i.e. we've all still got to remember these things (like
ou
Wilson
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> 500Texperience?
>
>
> Has anyone got any experience with the Medion PNA 500T GPS P
relating to Soaring in Australia.
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At 07:12 AM 11/11/2006, you wrote:
>Mike,
>
>Are the newer Sirf-III GPS units any better for gliding in these
>regards??
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Kelly
Jim,
The 12 channel Garmin is actuall
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