To Sean and the others~
I wish you would quit pushing smart phones on us. I spent all my money on an ASW-28, and iPad, plus clear nav. I have two dogs in obedience school, my mother only gives me a little allowance. I thought you were smart enough to know that all flight technology should be adjusted downward for the most fixed thinker in the group. How dare you suggest the ubiquitous smartphone and free software! You have devalued the resale of my JSW wiz wheel and made flying less safe for all pilots in the east as i am so ****ed off I cannot even see straight!
I dod not use eBay, so there is no way for me to purchase a smart phone. I only use Facebook during a contest, please please let's stop this non-sence.

On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 5:23:25 AM UTC-7, Sean Fidler wrote:
Solution: (drumroll......) Get a smartphone (used on eBay). Tadaaaah!

This conversation is akin to saying I want to go bicycle riding...but don't want to buy a bike???? XCSoar software is (of course)free. A used android smartphone is $50-$250 bucks.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...alID=EB AY-US

"You can lead a horse to the water but can't make it drink..."

A fully functional, outstanding soaring flight computer for $125. Nice phone too if you can bear to bring yourself into the 21st century.

Complaining about flight computers, books and manuals with this kind of high performance and extremely low cost solution available is unnecessary. All you really get with a $6000 spend on the "fancy stuff" is a brighter in panel display, airspeed and temp integration (wind, higher accuracy) and stick controllers. You can always mount the smart phone on the panel with industrial Velcro or a accessory mount...