On Friday, July 27, 2018 at 1:21:41 AM UTC-7, Charlie Quebec wrote:
I use a cheap android phone with xcsoar, kept in the side pocket, fully charged. Powered off it can be going in a minute, and using its own GPS.
I have a mechanical Winter as vario backup. You dont get to go solo here without the ability to do a circuit and land with all instruments covered.
Losing power would little to no inconvenience.
A truly independent backup that costs less than $100.

I have a LxNav S3 with the UPS battery pack, which according to specs should give me 8 hours of vario with audio should I lose ship's main bus, and all those pretty glass instruments. Coupled with a JSW, Super Class, wiz wheel it is just like my first 300 hours of xc flying before I purchased the most modern flight computer made, at the time, the B100. I also have a real sectional(s) for the area I fly, and iGlide loaded on a phone zipped into my pants on flight mode.