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Has anyone played with stratux http://stratux.me/ in a glider? Any idea if it will display on one of the open source flight computers, Tophat or XCsoar or?
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I played with Stratux for a while and then passed it on to another
glider pilot.Â* I got it second hand from a glider pilot, as well. The system I had consisted of a separate box, two antennae, a power cable, and a display device.Â* I found that it provided great visibility of ADS-B targets and weather overlayed on a map background.Â* It was quite interesting to sit in my living room with the Stratux box in the window sill and watch traffic in the pattern at Santa Fe, about 40 air miles away.Â* I could follow them from arrival, down wind, base, and about half way down final before they dropped below coverage of the tower on Sandia Peak.Â* I was very excited to try it in flight, but... The three cables running across the glare shield and Velcro mounted antennae coming loose from their mounts (certificated aircraft so it was a portable rather than permanent installation), were always a distraction.Â* I never had a decent sunlight readable screen to display it on.Â* I planned to run Avare on my Streak along with XCSoar and simply switch between the two.Â* A split screen would have been better but the Streak neither supports split screen nor the interface program required to read the data from Stratux, therefore I ran it on a Nexus 7 which was useless if the sun was out. Bottom line:Â* If you have a sunlight readable screen and an OS which runs the program, it's a lot of fun and provides good information. The down side is figuring a way to have it mounted so that you can give it a glance now and then without futzing with another display floating around the cockpit.Â* It looks really nice when run on, say, Avare on a big screen mounted to the yoke of a power plane. One more thing - it is a power hog and I had a lot of trouble finding a USB cable which supported the amperage requirement. Without the current, the radios will not lock on. On 9/29/2017 8:39 AM, wrote: Has anyone played with stratux http://stratux.me/ in a glider? Any idea if it will display on one of the open source flight computers, Tophat or XCsoar or? -- Dan, 5J |
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I've built Stratux devices and used them in my living room, but not
flown with them. Hard to find room for another tablet. But very impressive what it can do. If I were going to fly with one, I'd probably use a Uavionix Scout (was Pingbuddy 3). Much more compact, and they have low power receivers that reduces the battery draw considerably. Only downside is no internal GPS, they rely on what's inside the tablet. On 09/29/2017 10:35 AM, Dan Marotta wrote: I played with Stratux for a while and then passed it on to another glider pilot.Â* I got it second hand from a glider pilot, as well. The system I had consisted of a separate box, two antennae, a power cable, and a display device.Â* I found that it provided great visibility of ADS-B targets and weather overlayed on a map background.Â* It was quite interesting to sit in my living room with the Stratux box in the window sill and watch traffic in the pattern at Santa Fe, about 40 air miles away.Â* I could follow them from arrival, down wind, base, and about half way down final before they dropped below coverage of the tower on Sandia Peak.Â* I was very excited to try it in flight, but... The three cables running across the glare shield and Velcro mounted antennae coming loose from their mounts (certificated aircraft so it was a portable rather than permanent installation), were always a distraction.Â* I never had a decent sunlight readable screen to display it on.Â* I planned to run Avare on my Streak along with XCSoar and simply switch between the two.Â* A split screen would have been better but the Streak neither supports split screen nor the interface program required to read the data from Stratux, therefore I ran it on a Nexus 7 which was useless if the sun was out. Bottom line:Â* If you have a sunlight readable screen and an OS which runs the program, it's a lot of fun and provides good information. The down side is figuring a way to have it mounted so that you can give it a glance now and then without futzing with another display floating around the cockpit.Â* It looks really nice when run on, say, Avare on a big screen mounted to the yoke of a power plane. One more thing - it is a power hog and I had a lot of trouble finding a USB cable which supported the amperage requirement. Without the current, the radios will not lock on. On 9/29/2017 8:39 AM, wrote: Has anyone played with stratux http://stratux.me/ in a glider?Â* Any idea if it will display on one of the open source flight computers, Tophat or XCsoar or? |
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Looks like the Scout has been hardwired to only work with Foreflight.
That's a pity. On 09/29/2017 11:51 AM, kinsell wrote: I've built Stratux devices and used them in my living room, but not flown with them.Â* Hard to find room for another tablet.Â* But very impressive what it can do. If I were going to fly with one, I'd probably use a Uavionix Scout (was Pingbuddy 3).Â* Much more compact, and they have low power receivers that reduces the battery draw considerably.Â* Only downside is no internal GPS, they rely on what's inside the tablet. On 09/29/2017 10:35 AM, Dan Marotta wrote: I played with Stratux for a while and then passed it on to another glider pilot.Â* I got it second hand from a glider pilot, as well. The system I had consisted of a separate box, two antennae, a power cable, and a display device.Â* I found that it provided great visibility of ADS-B targets and weather overlayed on a map background.Â* It was quite interesting to sit in my living room with the Stratux box in the window sill and watch traffic in the pattern at Santa Fe, about 40 air miles away.Â* I could follow them from arrival, down wind, base, and about half way down final before they dropped below coverage of the tower on Sandia Peak.Â* I was very excited to try it in flight, but... The three cables running across the glare shield and Velcro mounted antennae coming loose from their mounts (certificated aircraft so it was a portable rather than permanent installation), were always a distraction.Â* I never had a decent sunlight readable screen to display it on.Â* I planned to run Avare on my Streak along with XCSoar and simply switch between the two.Â* A split screen would have been better but the Streak neither supports split screen nor the interface program required to read the data from Stratux, therefore I ran it on a Nexus 7 which was useless if the sun was out. Bottom line:Â* If you have a sunlight readable screen and an OS which runs the program, it's a lot of fun and provides good information. The down side is figuring a way to have it mounted so that you can give it a glance now and then without futzing with another display floating around the cockpit.Â* It looks really nice when run on, say, Avare on a big screen mounted to the yoke of a power plane. One more thing - it is a power hog and I had a lot of trouble finding a USB cable which supported the amperage requirement. Without the current, the radios will not lock on. On 9/29/2017 8:39 AM, wrote: Has anyone played with stratux http://stratux.me/ in a glider?Â* Any idea if it will display on one of the open source flight computers, Tophat or XCsoar or? |
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