On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 6:32:40 PM UTC-8, wrote:
Do you connect it your butterfly/air glide vario ? Can you declare a task with the iglide and transfer to the logger in air glide ?
Dan
On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:23:32 PM UTC-5, jfitch wrote:
On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 4:45:15 PM UTC-8, Casey wrote:
The iPhone is nothing like any other phone that I have seen in direct sun light. The mini pad 4 was not as bright but I only tried once. I wanted a larger screen due to on the verg of having to wear glasses. I think I may try an extra extension to bring the iPhone closer to me. I also was thinking about making a sun screen for the mini pad but have not yet. I'm also using bad elf with my iPhone and I had a connect problem with the mini so that is another reason I have not pursued more. But I plan too.

iPhone use to not be sun light readable and I amagine they will continue to improve faster than any other off the shelf glider display.

Why the Bad Elf with the iPhone? Both my 5s and my 6 Plus work fine from the built in GPS. In fact the 6 Plus, with its built in barometrics, makes quite a decent stand alone glide computer. Better still if you connect it up to your variometer, but very good all by itself.

I do have it connected to an Air Vario. I think you can declare a task to the logger, but have never really investigated that. John Carlyle is the guy to ask. I don't believe you can declare a task to the PowerFlarm logger, and I know you cannot upload PowerFlarm flight logs through the Air Vario (it can apparently upload Flarm logs). When connected to the Air Vario, the thermal assistant in iGlide gets much more interesting due to the use of instantaneous wind.

Looking at the HDOP of the iPhone 6 Plus, it seems to think it is pretty accurate. More so than the PowerFlarm gps. But less so than the Air Vario gps.. Of the 5 gps units in my glider, it makes claims to the greatest accuracy..