From Aus Soaring list in Australia.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Mike Borgelt <[email protected]>
> Date: 5 April 2011 9:12:24 PM AEST
> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] The $65 glide computer
> Reply-To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia."
> <[email protected]>
>
> OK it isn't the $65 LS4 but it is the $65 glide computer.
>
> While passing through the local Hardly Normal's on the weekend with a friend
> we saw they were having a runout on Navigon 1400 car GPS units at $65 each.
>
> He bought one and we loaded XCSoar 6, australia.dat and australia.txt for
> airspace, set XCsoar to look at com 2 for the GPS data and it all worked.
> Even supports portrait mode.
> Screen is very good. As long as the sun isn't reflecting straight into your
> eyes off the screen it is very readable. If you arrange a sunshade it is
> excellent.
>
> I went back the next day and got one for myself. It even has a nice right
> angle USB connector for the 12 volt car power supply.
>
> The 3.5" screen in portrait mode seems large enough and doesn't hog the
> available cockpit/panel space. A 4.3 " screen might be slightly better. Over
> that the screen can be a problem to accommodate.
>
> Anyone know how to feed external serial data into these devices or is a
> hardware hack required? Can the PC communications be configured for RS232
> data? It must reside on a particular com port.
>
> Even without the ability to take external GPS/airdata it is very useful. If
> you can feed external data you could run GPS, Flarm and airdata into it and
> make full use of XCsoar. Without that you'd need the Flarm display for Flarm
> and a vario like the B500 or B800 with the controller/display unit to get the
> real time head/tail wind data.
>
> Mike
>
> Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments since 1978
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>
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