Standalone Flight Recorders for Club Use

I would concur with John. I have the antenna on top of the EWMR and
that sits behind my head (under fiberglass) in my 19. Has worked just
fine there so far. One thing about the auto-off timer though. I was
down at Perry at the XC Camp. We were gridded and I was near the
back. I turned the unit on so that I wouldn't forget to do it once
strapped in. However, I sat in the grid for longer than 30 minutes
(which is the default value) and the unit shutoff (as it should). I
didn't notice and when I came back, no log file. Luckily I had the
one from SoarPilot so all was right with the world. :-) Just
something to keep in mind.

Later!

-Mark
On Apr 23, 10:51 am, ContestID67 wrote:
We have been flying with the microRecorder for a few flights now and
have these comments;

1) The antenna needs a good clear view of the sky. I put the antenna
under my turtledeck in my fiberglass glider and found that I missed a
few GPS fixes during the flight. Nothing major and wouldn't have
invalidated the flight. No problems when I mounted the antenna to the
canopy. This problem did not occur on the Cambridge-302A version so I
can only imagine that the EW GPS receiver isn't quite as sensitive as
the Cambridge.

2) I was using the defaults for the configuration. After two flights
separated by 20-30 mins I found that there was only one log file
(which contained both flights). I am unsure if this could be a
problem for multiple flights with different pilots. Looking into this
I found that there was a 90 min auto-off timer. I reset this to 10
mins.

Otherwise the unit is working out well.

- John