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Old February 11th 15, 01:21 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Kilo-Bravo
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Default DIY Flight-Computer

Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2015 13:53:38 UTC+1 schrieb Martin Gregorie:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:56:35 -0800, Kilo-Bravo wrote:

I beliefe that we can live with the existing design.

Fair enough: very often hardware gets picked simply because one of the
technical people has used it before - and nothing wrong with that!

Can you say if you're planning to support touch screens or if the plan is
to control the flight computer entirely from the control column? I can't
see any control switches in the photos of panels. My German is fairly
poor, so I wasn't able to tell from the description on the text.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
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Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2015 13:53:38 UTC+1 schrieb Martin Gregorie:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:56:35 -0800, Kilo-Bravo wrote:

I beliefe that we can live with the existing design.

Fair enough: very often hardware gets picked simply because one of the
technical people has used it before - and nothing wrong with that!

Can you say if you're planning to support touch screens or if the plan is
to control the flight computer entirely from the control column? I can't
see any control switches in the photos of panels. My German is fairly
poor, so I wasn't able to tell from the description on the text.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |




Am Mittwoch, 11. Februar 2015 13:53:38 UTC+1 schrieb Martin Gregorie:
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:56:35 -0800, Kilo-Bravo wrote:

I beliefe that we can live with the existing design.

Fair enough: very often hardware gets picked simply because one of the
technical people has used it before - and nothing wrong with that!

Can you say if you're planning to support touch screens or if the plan is
to control the flight computer entirely from the control column? I can't
see any control switches in the photos of panels. My German is fairly
poor, so I wasn't able to tell from the description on the text.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |


Hi Martin,

I must admit, that as the subject is quite new to me, I donīt know what I need and which size.
At a first look at things, I would prefer a 7" Touch-screen, which I think its big anough to let my fingers work on it during flight.
But surely thoughts can change, the more I get involved in the subject.
As you might have seen in my newest blog, I try to get a workshop organized at our place in Germany, so I hope to find a few guys joining me in order to help each other and at the end we come out of it with a few ready Flight-Computers. Would be phantastic.

Regards Klaus