On Nov 10, 3:35*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Nov 10, 2:04*pm, Andy wrote:





On Nov 10, 2:02*pm, Whiskey Delta wrote:

*I'm torn between *the two options at the moment. *

Me too. * I wonder when the user manuals, installation manuals, and
data port specifications will be available. Probably not until
deliveries start and that would be long after the preferential pricing
ends.

My next questions relate to the functionality and user interfaces of
bundled display and portable options:

Is the on-screen data presentation identical? If not, how is it
different?

Is the user interface identical? If not, how is it different? *It
appears that the user controls are not the same on the portable unit
as on the rectangular Butterfly display.

I also wonder if the bundled Butterfly display has embedded firmware
and, if so, how is that firmware updated if needed for future
functionality.

Andy

The (German) Butterfly Display manual on the support page I gave the
link to mentions updating the display firmware. And the same support
page I gave a link to contains existing Butterfly Flarm display update
software that users install themselves.

At some point you have to stop worrying about every little possible
problem and trust that two companies (Flarm and Butterfly) that have
been doing this stuff for years are going to get us a usable product.

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Sorry I don't read German. If you do perhaps you can provide a
translation on the display firmware update sections. I don't plan to
wade through a crude on-line translation of the whole website in the
hope it may include the information I seek. I am familiar with how to
update the existing FLARM as the manuals are available in English. I
would hope any firmware update to the display is handled by the FLARM
host in much the same way as the Garmin 396/496 updates the attached
XM antenna receiver/processor.

That there will be a usable product at some time was not the subject
of my questions. I was asking about details that would perhaps allow
a more educated choice between two offered and presumably both usable
options. You didn't offer an answer to those questions.

Which PowerFLARM configuration did you choose and what were the
factors you considered? For me the portable seems too big for the
glider and the blind unit appears be too awkward to swap between the
glider and the power plane.

Maybe I need option three which is a smaller portable unit that does
not include batteries and charger. Perhaps that would be a blind unit
that is designed to match the outline of the remote display and hard
mates with it to form an integrated unit when needed to be portable.

Andy