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Old December 6th 09, 09:11 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
kirk.stant
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Default Glide computer review

On Dec 5, 6:26*pm, mike wrote:
On Dec 5, 5:01*pm, "kirk.stant" wrote:





My choice: *SN-10 as primary glide/task computer/vario (with it's own
dedicated Garmin hockey-puck GPS hardwired in). *Backup (on separate
battery system) is my IGC logger (a Themi) driving a PDA running
SeeYou Mobile, used mainly to show airspace, the current task, and
reachable airports (and ridges if useful).


SN-10 map page is OK as a backup but does not approach the utility of
the PDA display. *SYM allows setting up a simple easy to see moving
map with nice big fonts and easy to see lines - visible even in bright
Arizona sunlight.


PDA also can download the logger files from the SN10 and Themi (via
appropriate DOS emulator software - a bit of a pain to setup but does
work).


302A look nice but too expensive for a backup vario. *If i win the
lottery, though, it would replace the Themi and have the advantage of
a TE vario that doesn't rely on the vulnerable TE probe.


Kirk
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302A is only a logger. The 302 is the version with the logger and
vario.


Correct, I meant the 302 (vario with logger).

Kirk