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Old February 14th 13, 10:19 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Kimmo Hytoenen
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Default Best performing Vario?

After Argentina some competition pilots were quite disappointed
with the new variometers using acceleration to calculate lift. I
have not tested myself, just telling their opinion.

At 21:49 14 February 2013, John Galloway wrote:
At 22:58 13 February 2013, wrote:
If the butterfly -- or clearnav, with future software -- did

read
out 3 d
w=
ind 20 times a second, this would be a big advantage. Not

only could you
de=
tect lift long before F =3D MA gets the glider moving upward,

you could
tel=
l upward gusts from forward gusts and sideways gusts.

Dynamic soaring
might=
even become possible, or at least better energy extraction

from gusts.
Eve=
n the 302 has the necessary sensors, my impression is that

we're all
waitin=
g on the software development.=20

John Cochrane


Regarding gusts, the Butterfly website (in FAQ) already claims:

"A conventional variometer uses changes in air pressure (TE-
pressure, static- and total-pressure) to determine energy
changes the aircraft experiences. Butterfly Vario does the

same.
Additionally it uses an inertial sensing platform that allows for
real-time determination of airmass-movement and realtime
determination of wind. With this technology a pilot can judge
the difference between gust induced energy changes and
thermal induced energy changes."

John Galloway