Flight Computer Input Devices

On Friday, February 28, 2014 2:21:08 PM UTC-8, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:16:44 -0800, Mike the Strike wrote:



I was leaning towards the ClearNav/LX approach of buttons rather than

the trackball, although I believe both are quite workable. I currently

use an Oudie and have had problems in rough air with the touchscreen.



The LX 9000 does look most interesting, but would be a lot more

attractive if the Euro was at 0.8 to the US dollar instead of 1.35! The

idea of putting the computer on a RAM mount within easy reach wasn't an

idea I had originally considered, but might actually be viable.



I wonder how many here have taken that approach?



Mike



Dunno whether this helps, but I have a PNA running LK8000 on a RAM Flex-

mount. That works for me. However, I fly in fairly non-turbulent

conditions and find that resting some fingers on the edge of the PNA

while prodding it with thumb or index finger helps a lot.



Of course, the thing that helps most of all is the ability of LK8000 and

XCSoar to let you fly a task without any pilot inputs provided, of

course, that conditions are good enough to complete the task without

needing to abandon any TPs.





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The lovely thing about LK8000 is that for most flying you just need to touch in large zones rather than try to hit buttons. It works well, even in turbulence.
Craig
7Q

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:14:33 -0800, Craig Funston wrote:

And, hopefully, almost all prodding it will ever need in flight involves
simply tapping the top left screen corner to dial round the list of TPs,
HOME and the 1st and 2nd nearest alternate landout fields.



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