Thread: Cherokee on OLC
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Old September 6th 09, 05:54 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Cherokee on OLC

Great flight !!
Logging flights for OLC can be done with a simple Garmin handheld GPS. I
have a Garmin 76 that I have used.
The download is slow over their serial connection, and any more you need a
serial to USB cable.
The Garmin96 models have a very fast USB download.

If all you want is gps track download capability, simple is easy.
http://www.wingsandwheels.com/page11.htm

If you want to see it real time with map displays, then it gets busier with
PDAs, GPS cables etc.
I know local pilot that uses a blue tooth gps receiver clipped to his bucket
hat (actually I think his wife sewed a terry cloth pocket onto the outside
of the hat.) GPS bluetooth connects to his PDA and he has a moving map and
can capture the gps track data there for OLC.


"Tony Condon" wrote in message
...
Steve Leonard was brave enough to make a public offering here on RAS that
he would loan me a logger. We are out in Ulysses this weekend for a
little soaring camp and got a late start today.

It was pretty neat having the cambridge on board. I can see why you guys
like this stuff, maybe I'll have to get one of my own. Weather was
decent here while it lasted and I got 2 hours in with a couple of 9ish
mile upwind runs and glides back. I was having fun just flying straight
and not losing much altitude. Trace he

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1923163696

Considering I beat steve today by 4 points, I hope he'll let me have the
logger for the rest of the weekend...


-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y