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Old May 9th 18, 05:33 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Darryl Ramm
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Default Spot or InReach ??

On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 7:09:12 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 May 2018 09:08:00 UTC+12, kirk.stant wrote:
Interesting how much you guys are willing to pay for altitude and the ability to message. At the 10 minute rate Spot is $175/year (or a bit more, but still less that $200) - a lot less than a full year of InReach tracking. My Gen 1 has been reliable, easy to use, and my wife has no trouble tracking me and finding me when I land out (or make it back to the field). I've loaned it to friends who flew it all over the Caribbean In their RV-6 and it tracked them perfectly. Ditto a friend on a motorcycle trip.

So if you need the messaging features and altitude, definitely go for the InReach, but if you just need a simple tracker, you might try spot and be surprised.

Guess I just got a good one...

Kirk
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We get altitude with Spot Gen3 downunder.


Do you have a link to flight traces showing that?

Spot seemed to test doing this at least in North America before but it was very unreliable, besides that the "altitude data" displayed is just the ground elevation.