Cambridge 302 -or- Borgelt B50 plus data logger

RD,

I would be delighted to find I am wrong but the 302A
we are using gives no indication of outputting a wind
calculation in its interaction with a variety of PDA
programmes that my partner has tried with it (althout
SeeYou Mobile seems to calculate its own circling drift
wind when attached to the 302A). Also he has corresponded
with Paul Remde (US agent for Cambridge and GN11 as
you will know) about this subject and I am sure he
would have been able to tell us if this was wrong.
I had a look at the 302A manual and it doesn't say
it calculates winds - but the 302 manual also has no
mention of wind calculation which it does do.

The 302 variometer calculates vector winds and not
circling drift wind. Take away the pneumatic inputs
and it has no way of doing this - even if the computer
hardware that allows the 302 to do this isn't removed
in the process of turning it into a 302A - which I
suspect it will be.

John Galloway

At 21:54 26 May 2004, Romeo Delta wrote:
John Galloway wrote:

...the 302A cannot calculate winds
and GN11 also does not do a wind calculation when attached
to a 302A.

Dear John,

I appreciate your considered response and don't mean
to cast
dispersion; however,

Are you 100% positive that the 302A cannot calculate
winds? This
seems odd for any GPS not to be able to do so.

Can anyone verify this?

RD