Hi Paul,

I sell instruments - so take this with a grain of salt. But have you
considered that you may be able to get pretty good money selling the used
instruments - perhaps enough to buy a new one? Working with old hardware is
a lot of work and may or may not be worth it. The market for used soaring
instruments is pretty good. I often talk to customers that are spending a
lot of money trying to get old systems upgraded - and they never think of
the idea of selling the existing hardware to help pay for new instruments.

I do offer a free soaring classifieds web site that has helped many glider
pilots sell used instruments. You can see details he
http://www.soaring-classifieds.com

Just a thought...

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

"Paul Hanson" wrote in message
...
I have a functioning B-100 flight computer (version
1.1). My new ship (SZD-59) is equipped with an LX-4000.
The LX has integrated GPS and the B-100 takes a separate
unit (offhand that seems better since new GPS's kick
the crap out of early units) I also have an Ilec SB-8
with the ASR unit, that for 150 Euros can be upgraded
to the latest GPS driven ASR unit. Upgrading to the
SN10B or LX8000 etc is out of the question, and frankly
not necessary for my current set of skills so I am
not looking for upgrade recommendations like that (unless
someone wants to sell me one REAL cheap!) as much as
I am looking for advice on deciding between the three.
I'm leaning towards the Borgelt or the Ilec, but want
to hear opinions as to which one/ones and why. I'm
just beginning X-C, so user friendly is a real consideration
as well.
I know, I know, 50 pilots=60 opinions, but I still
want to know what others think since I do not have
enough first hand experience with any of them to determine
which would be best. Also, if the B-100 is the better
choice, which external (inexpensive) GPS should I get
to use with it?

Paul Hanson
"Do the usual, unusually well"--Len Niemi