On Thursday, May 23, 2013 12:11:18 PM UTC-4, wrote:

Better vario: Immense. Nothing matters as much. What can I do with a better -- and carefully set up -- vario? Outclimb people who think I have some actual thermaling ability. Climb when they land. Roll into that savior bullet thermal that looks like a gust on their varios.

With the cost of a relight at $50+, a vario that keeps you in the air more should pay for itself.

I thought that a vario needed to use the 3-D inertial sensor to sort out the horizontal and vertical components of "gusts", and I thought that nobody was doing that just yet. Or does the inertial sensor just make the filtering better?