On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:04:15 -0700, waremark wrote:

Of the three loggers which have internal backup rechargeable batteries,
the UK prices before discounts are Colibri II £528, Nano £470, and EW
Microrecorder £330. The EW has a full size SD card and communicates with
either a PDA or with a laptop. Its downsides are that it doesn't have
the extra info of the Colibri, or the Bluetooth of the Nano, and that
the included GPS antenna is external. But I have been using one quite
happily as the backup logger in my existing glider, and it looks like
the best for my requirements as well as the cheapest solution as the
backup logger for my new glider.

Yep. I've been using an EW model D and was very happy with it until that
pair of selfish *******s got it outlawed by faking a 500 km flight in an
ASK-13. I'm just about to replace it with an EW Microrecorder.

FWIW I have a Red Box FLARM with SD card option installed. So, I had been
planning to add the IGC signing firmware module because that would be by
far the cheapest way to get an ICG-approved logger. However, there is a
disadvantage to that plan: the necessity of taking the Red Box out of my
panel to get it calibrated if/when I get another Gold or Diamond leg.
This tips the scale toward the Microrecorder for me, even though logs
from LK8000 are accepted for the BGA Ladder, which means I could continue
to fly and put in good flights while the Red Box was away for
calibration. Of course, ymmv ....


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