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Old April 30th 15, 01:59 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default Needed: Inexpensive AHRS module to work with Oudie, XCsoar, LK8000,etc...

Keep your airspeed indicator and altimeter and replace your mechanical
variometer with the Dynon D2. Problem solved!

On 4/29/2015 11:06 AM, kirk.stant wrote:
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 9:48:12 AM UTC-5, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 6:32:08 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Dynon has a very good answer: http://www.dynonavionics.com/docs/PocketPanel.html.

To meet Kirk's request for integration with moving map...
The D2 integrates wirelessly with several 3rd party apps so a programming API exists. Whether Dynon would make the API available to glider App developers (like the XCSoar team) is unknown.

On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 10:15:51 AM UTC-4, Tango Whisky wrote:
Until the main fuse blows.

The Dynon allows you to tie into the main DC supply, but it also contains an internal battery with 4-6 hours of juice. I suspect that there is a fail over mechanism.

The Stratus2 AHRS https://www.foreflight.com/products/stratus/ requires an 'Ipad' but it also offers Synthetic Vision and ADS weather (not offered on the D2.

The Dynon is nice (I've flown one in a friends Mooney), but remember that the speed is GPS based; in a wave situation that could get interesting! If I flew wave and wanted a full time AI it would be high on my list. The Stratus is real close, if it was supported in my Oudie2 I would take a real hard look at it!

Kirk


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