Glad that someone started this discussion. I switched from hang
gliding to sail planes a couple of years and am quite familiar with
the current crop of HG instruments.

The Flytec 6030 is a great instrument and I know a couple of sail
plane pilots that use it within their cockpits. The instrument has a
pitot tube and can be connected to gliders tubing quite easily. TE
compensation has been implemented electronically. My experience with
the 5030/6030 in a sailplane is that it works OK but speed range,
speed scales and TE and STF compensations need improvement for the
higher speeds and speed dynamics experienced.

I have spoken with the North American distributor and there is
discussion and potentially some work being done to offer a glider
version and to get the instrument IGC certified.

What would be the advantage? The largest one is cost and
functionality. These instruments are currently priced under $1,500
and provide logger, builtin GPS, vario, STF, flight computer
capabilities including contest flying, stand alone instrument, 35+
hours of battery life, airspace, all in a small durable package.
Great for a club, backup instrument, stand alone logger.

Ron Gleason