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Old November 5th 19, 01:25 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Martin Gregorie[_6_]
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Default LX Era 80 vs S80/S100

On Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:33:54 -0800, Senna Van den Bosch wrote:

I've been seeing some pilots prefer the Borgelt variometers as well, how
would the modern ones (B600/B800/dynamis) compare to the modern LX
variometers?

Most of the LX units I've seen strike me as cramming too much information
into the centre of the display, but of course ymmv.

Currently I'm very happy with an SDI C4 (with cruise/climb switching
controlled by airspeed) and a 3.5" PNA running LK8000 (3.5" because of
panel size limitation) and a Borgelt B.40 as secondary vario.

Back when I used a Garmin GPS II for navigation I had that connected to
the C4, which let it calculate arrival heights etc. That doesn't work now
because the PNA/LK8000 doesn't have a suitable data out connection and,
even if it did, it doesn't output the GPS sentences the C4 needs. So, I'm
considering using a port of LK8000 to a Raspberry Pi with a touch screen
and writing a custom module to generate the data feed to the C4.


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