LXNav S80 landing gear voice warning not working

BTW, when I stepped up to 5.04, it did fix the remote stick issue, but then the sound equalizer page was no longer accessible. I really don't care about that page anyway, but it does raise an eyebrow about the level of testing the product goes through prior to release.

The more annoying thing to me with the product in general is the missing "nearest airports" feature. If I could pick the top 5 features I'd want out of a flight computer, being able to display the NEAREST airports is in that list - in fact, it is probably #3 in the list. But the S80 doesn't have it. It will give you the ability to define the exact frequency at which to hear your favorite vario sounds (so what?!), it will allow you to choose the transparency of the airspace polygons (so what?!), you can even choose the default volume for the sounds on startup (so what?!), but it DOESN'T give you fundamental critical information like NEAREST airports! Really?! This has been in every software product ahead of it, so why abandon it? I'd gladly trade at least 10 features that this vario has that I don't care about to get the nearest airports list.

OK, off my soap box. At this point, Right now I'd like to know if the voice warnings are even functional per the marketing claims. Is the warning voice female or male? Can someone even answer that question?

I've heard the stall warning voice on a recently installed S80. Sorry, don't know the firmware version and don't have access to the ship at the moment.. The voice sounded like a pretty stern female to me. At first, I though it was the front-seat passenger ...

Mike
XL5

On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 12:04:51 AM UTC-5, ZP wrote:
BTW, when I stepped up to 5.04, it did fix the remote stick issue, but then the sound equalizer page was no longer accessible. I really don't care about that page anyway, but it does raise an eyebrow about the level of testing the product goes through prior to release.

The more annoying thing to me with the product in general is the missing "nearest airports" feature. If I could pick the top 5 features I'd want out of a flight computer, being able to display the NEAREST airports is in that list - in fact, it is probably #3 in the list. But the S80 doesn't have it. It will give you the ability to define the exact frequency at which to hear your favorite vario sounds (so what?!), it will allow you to choose the transparency of the airspace polygons (so what?!), you can even choose the default volume for the sounds on startup (so what?!), but it DOESN'T give you fundamental critical information like NEAREST airports! Really?! This has been in every software product ahead of it, so why abandon it? I'd gladly trade at least 10 features that this vario has that I don't care about to get the nearest airports list.

OK, off my soap box. At this point, Right now I'd like to know if the voice warnings are even functional per the marketing claims. Is the warning voice female or male? Can someone even answer that question?

I agree with you comment. Garmin had a 'go to nearest' airport in the Pilot III and that was a decade ago. I am considering the LX Nav 100 and wondered if the vario has feature. Thank you for answering my question!

On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 5:44:12 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 12:04:51 AM UTC-5, ZP wrote:
BTW, when I stepped up to 5.04, it did fix the remote stick issue, but then the sound equalizer page was no longer accessible. I really don't care about that page anyway, but it does raise an eyebrow about the level of testing the product goes through prior to release.

The more annoying thing to me with the product in general is the missing "nearest airports" feature. If I could pick the top 5 features I'd want out of a flight computer, being able to display the NEAREST airports is in that list - in fact, it is probably #3 in the list. But the S80 doesn't have it. It will give you the ability to define the exact frequency at which to hear your favorite vario sounds (so what?!), it will allow you to choose the transparency of the airspace polygons (so what?!), you can even choose the default volume for the sounds on startup (so what?!), but it DOESN'T give you fundamental critical information like NEAREST airports! Really?! This has been in every software product ahead of it, so why abandon it? I'd gladly trade at least 10 features that this vario has that I don't care about to get the nearest airports list.

OK, off my soap box. At this point, Right now I'd like to know if the voice warnings are even functional per the marketing claims. Is the warning voice female or male? Can someone even answer that question?

I agree with you comment. Garmin had a 'go to nearest' airport in the Pilot III and that was a decade ago. I am considering the LX Nav 100 and wondered if the vario has feature. Thank you for answering my question!



There IS a nearest feature at least in the latest Firmware. Go to the waypoint page and use the quick menu to "Select Nearest" and the list of waypoints will be displayed in order of closest to farthest. Select the waypoint and it will give you distance, arrival altitude, etc... depending on what parameters you have selected for display for the waypoint page.

On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 4:54:07 PM UTC-5, Greg Delp wrote:
On Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 5:44:12 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 12:04:51 AM UTC-5, ZP wrote:
BTW, when I stepped up to 5.04, it did fix the remote stick issue, but then the sound equalizer page was no longer accessible. I really don't care about that page anyway, but it does raise an eyebrow about the level of testing the product goes through prior to release.

The more annoying thing to me with the product in general is the missing "nearest airports" feature. If I could pick the top 5 features I'd want out of a flight computer, being able to display the NEAREST airports is in that list - in fact, it is probably #3 in the list. But the S80 doesn't have it. It will give you the ability to define the exact frequency at which to hear your favorite vario sounds (so what?!), it will allow you to choose the transparency of the airspace polygons (so what?!), you can even choose the default volume for the sounds on startup (so what?!), but it DOESN'T give you fundamental critical information like NEAREST airports! Really?! This has been in every software product ahead of it, so why abandon it? I'd gladly trade at least 10 features that this vario has that I don't care about to get the nearest airports list.

OK, off my soap box. At this point, Right now I'd like to know if the voice warnings are even functional per the marketing claims. Is the warning voice female or male? Can someone even answer that question?

I agree with you comment. Garmin had a 'go to nearest' airport in the Pilot III and that was a decade ago. I am considering the LX Nav 100 and wondered if the vario has feature. Thank you for answering my question!



There IS a nearest feature at least in the latest Firmware. Go to the waypoint page and use the quick menu to "Select Nearest" and the list of waypoints will be displayed in order of closest to farthest. Select the waypoint and it will give you distance, arrival altitude, etc... depending on what parameters you have selected for display for the waypoint page.

Thank you for the update! Good news!