On Friday, September 16, 2016 at 4:21:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Le mardi 13 septembre 2016 11:08:24 UTC-4, a écritÂ*:
Hi
The thermal-assistant in my Oudie 2 is very helpfull when thermals are weak and
disorganize. Now my Oudie 2 is not connected to my vario. But it could.
My question is would it make a difference on the thermal-assistant if I connect
the Oudie to my smart vario?
For the purist out there I know all the other information I am not getting by
not connecting the two instrument.

Thank you
Gilles

Hi
When I started this tread,I said I like my Oudie thermal assistant when thermal are broken or on blue days, it help make a mental picture of the situation.
I was looking for a way to improve this by connecting the Oudie to my Cleanav vario. From what I read I am not convince upgrading from CNv club to CNv x/c will improved my thermal assistant.
Thank all for responding
Gilles


help

Hi Gilles. I have a CNv with digital display, x/c. I use an Oudie Lite running XC Soar. I connect with the Cumulus Soaring cable ( Cable-CNv-Oudie-0p1Cable - ClearNav CNv Variometer to Oudie Power/Data Cable ). With this, I gain a much better GPS to XC Soar. I also gain pressure altitude from the vario sensor, IAS (from static and pitot pressue) and OAT (I have the optional OAT sensor), which make wind calculation better (since TAS is a wind input, rather than algorithmic guess). I can't speak to SYM's thermal assistant since I don't use it (but I have found it frustrating to configure compared to XC Soar, when helping others who bought them with SYM).

I am very happy with the performance of the Oudie, connected, running XC Soar.

I'd suggest at least getting the cable and connecting the Oudie. Not expensive, and your inputs to SYM will be much better; better inputs = better wind velocity; better wind velocity will probably make SYM's TA work better.. $45USD when I got mine this spring. You do need the RJ45 coupler that came in the Oudie box to connect it.

I love my CNv with digital display, and in particular, the CNv Thermal Assistant. I expect that having good wind inputs will make wave flying at Lake Placid to be somewhat easier...

Dan
2D - GGC