Cambridge 302 -or- Borgelt B50 plus data logger

If you are looking for a logger and Pocket PC system with a moving map and
reachable airports highlighted on the screen, Glide Navigator II and a
Cambridge 302A will automatically calculate and display wind speed and
direction. The 302A offers more memory for flight logs and waypoints than
any other logger. It is very nice to never have to worry about whether your
logger is going to run out of memory.

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com


"Kevin Christner" wrote in message
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If you are looking for a logger that calculates wind speed and
direction, the Colibri will do this and display it on the units
screen.

Kevin

"Paul Remde" wrote in message news:Tmxtc.2135$4A6.1123@attbi_s52...
If you are looking for a logger and Pocket PC system with a moving map and
reachable airports highlighted on the screen, Glide Navigator II and a
Cambridge 302A will automatically calculate and display wind speed and
direction. The 302A offers more memory for flight logs and waypoints than
any other logger. It is very nice to never have to worry about whether your
logger is going to run out of memory.


Of course... any PDA program can calculate wind from the groundspeed
method. WinPilot, mCU, GlideNav, pStrePla, flyWithCE, free programs
like GPSLOG and Soaringpilot.

While having all that memory is nice, whether or not all that memory
is actually useful is completley up in the Air. I have a sample rate
of 4 seconds and this provides 16hrs on my colibri. Chances are, if
you don't download a flight right away you dont care too much about
it. The other disadvantage of the 302a that I see is that its panel
mounted.... you need a laptop or PDA to get the logs. With the
Colibri, Volkslogger, and SDI Posigraph, you can bring it home and use
your desktop, or take it to the scorer at a contest.

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

I'm sure that some people will prefer a portable logger and some will prefer
one mounted in the panel. The 302A works best when mounted in the panel,
but there is no requirement that it be mounted in the panel. I flew with
mine stowed behind me today in an SZD Junior. There is no need to view it
in flight. I used double sized plastic tape to secure the GPS antenna to
the top of the 302A. I also attached a RAM base with 1" ball so that I can
mount it on the canopy in our club's ASK-21. It worked fine, but is a bit
clunky. Another mounting solution would be to put it behind the instrument
panel (not using a hole in the panel) - secured to another instrument.

As someone else pointed out in another posting, a portable logger is not as
nice for a syndicate because if someone takes it home for downloading it may
not be available for the other syndicate partners when they need it. That
is not a problem when it is mounted in (or behind) the instrument panel.

You say the Colibri logs for 16 hours at 4 second intervals. That is pretty
good - definitely acceptable. But the 302A can log for 25 hours at 1 second
intervals. That makes the 3D flight replay very smooth in StrePla - I like
that.

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde
Cumulus Soaring, Inc.
http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

"Kevin Christner" wrote in message
om...
"Paul Remde" wrote in message
news:Tmxtc.2135$4A6.1123@attbi_s52...
If you are looking for a logger and Pocket PC system with a moving map
and
reachable airports highlighted on the screen, Glide Navigator II and a
Cambridge 302A will automatically calculate and display wind speed and
direction. The 302A offers more memory for flight logs and waypoints
than
any other logger. It is very nice to never have to worry about whether
your
logger is going to run out of memory.


Of course... any PDA program can calculate wind from the groundspeed
method. WinPilot, mCU, GlideNav, pStrePla, flyWithCE, free programs
like GPSLOG and Soaringpilot.

While having all that memory is nice, whether or not all that memory
is actually useful is completley up in the Air. I have a sample rate
of 4 seconds and this provides 16hrs on my colibri. Chances are, if
you don't download a flight right away you dont care too much about
it. The other disadvantage of the 302a that I see is that its panel
mounted.... you need a laptop or PDA to get the logs. With the
Colibri, Volkslogger, and SDI Posigraph, you can bring it home and use
your desktop, or take it to the scorer at a contest.

Kevin