M-Nav

On Nov 29, 10:47*am, wrote:
Hello everyone.
New to the group. I have a Pegasus that hasn't flown in many years and
I'm getting her ship-shape after a new annual and a clean bill-of-
health. The glider has an older M-Nav50 computer and I was wondering
if anyone can tell me something about these computers, i.e., what
functions does it perform (speed to fly, best glide, etc.), I'm also
wondering if I can interface this old a model to any current PDA,
etc., or will there be compatibility issues? I guess I'm trying to
assertain whether it's worth saving, or should I bite the bullet and
buy a new one. I'd like to try to make it work, at least for the time
being. I don't fly competitions....it would mainly be for XC. Thanks.
Dave

Ive used an M Nav with a Model 20 Cambridge for the past 8 years. The
unit works great and there is no reason to change or upgrade.
Defiantly worth saving. We now have service on these units here in the
US. If you cannot find a manual online PM me and Ill copy mine and
send it off to you.

On Nov 29, 7:46*pm, Buba Smith wrote:
On Nov 29, 10:47*am, wrote:

Hello everyone.
New to the group. I have a Pegasus that hasn't flown in many years and
I'm getting her ship-shape after a new annual and a clean bill-of-
health. The glider has an older M-Nav50 computer and I was wondering
if anyone can tell me something about these computers, i.e., what
functions does it perform (speed to fly, best glide, etc.), I'm also
wondering if I can interface this old a model to any current PDA,
etc., or will there be compatibility issues? I guess I'm trying to
assertain whether it's worth saving, or should I bite the bullet and
buy a new one. I'd like to try to make it work, at least for the time
being. I don't fly competitions....it would mainly be for XC. Thanks.
Dave

Ive used an M Nav with a Model 20 Cambridge for the past 8 years. The
unit works great and there is no reason to change or upgrade.
Defiantly worth saving. We now have service on these units here in the
US. If you cannot find a manual online PM me and Ill copy mine and
send it off to you.

Thanks everybody.
Dave

It sounds like it has the same basic functionality as the Peschges
VP-4E Nav that came with my glider. It worked fine as a vario, and the
distance and glide calculator functions worked just fine as long as I
used the distance and groundspeed/wind outputs from a Colibri to set
the wind and distance inputs correctly. I decided I'd just keep using
it until it broke down and then replace it with a nice new LX or
Cambridge unit.

That was eight years ago and the damn thing just keeps going strong!
Maybe you'll be just as lucky with the M-Nav.