Where is the LX S80?

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 7:47:11 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 9:24:51 PM UTC-4, wrote:

There has been soooooooo much time from the initial announcement of the S80 and the now just released manual that they may have changed the design perameters of the unit.







I want to hear from LX how the winds are computed.



Reading through the manual, there is no mention of wind at all. Also no mention of being able to connect a compass module, which is referenced on their S80 page in the second to last line of the paragraph directly below the picture of the unit. It states: "fast wind calculation with external compass"



http://www.lxnav.com/products/lxnav-varios/s80.html



The same web page mentions under "Hardware": integrated synthesized speech output. Yet in the manual, it states on page 45 under "stall speed", that the voice module is _not_ integrated in the S80. Confusing.



Interesting feature is ability to set the battery chemistry and battery warnings.

It is curious that it has no magnetometer and no GPS. I wonder how they stabilize the AHRS? AHRS hardware included in every unit but it costs $1120 to turn it on? No GPS so no flight recorder function? S80 + Nano + AHRS option seems quite a bit more $$ than the Butterfly which includes all those functions and more? And you still need an external compass?

There must be more to the story than we know, because right now it doesn't seem to add up.

The Butterfly lacks a good Flarm display (by design, they claim), but gives excellent Flarm voice warnings which are quite a bit more useful. Still, I would like to see a good Flarm display.