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October 28th 18, 03:42 PM
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What electronics are worth buying
On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 2:47:54 PM UTC-7, John Huthmaker wrote:
With Christmas coming up, what are some things worth asking Santa for? Is there any decent GPS devices that are reasonably priced? I'm thinking around the $500 mark. I already have a handheld transceiver. I have a nice headset for power planes. I have a parachute. At my soaring club, all of the planes are as minimalist as they come. They're all steam gauges. What do you guys consider to be essential modern tech for gliders? A Scout ADSB receiver ($200) seems a good buy if you already have Foreflight, for traffic awareness. 
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October 28th 18, 11:03 PM
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What electronics are worth buying
On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 8:42:51 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 2:47:54 PM UTC-7, John Huthmaker wrote: With Christmas coming up, what are some things worth asking Santa for? Is there any decent GPS devices that are reasonably priced? I'm thinking around the $500 mark. I already have a handheld transceiver. I have a nice headset for power planes. I have a parachute. At my soaring club, all of the planes are as minimalist as they come. They're all steam gauges. What do you guys consider to be essential modern tech for gliders? A Scout ADSB receiver ($200) seems a good buy if you already have Foreflight, for traffic awareness. I'd like to buy a Butterfly traffic display to go with the $200 adsb Scout receiver, but Butterfly displays only accept the proprietary flarm data protocol. The only adsb receivers I’ve seen that generate flarm protocol data also require additional purchase of flarm. Its almost as if the Flarm people are trying to force US pilots to buy their product.
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October 29th 18, 12:30 AM
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What electronics are worth buying
I had some bad fortune followed by some good fortune today. The bad fortune is I was supposed to go flying today after 4 weeks of delays, and I woke up at 4am passing a kidney stone. So its going to be another week before I get in the air. On the good fortune front I found a person selling a FastFind 220 on Ebay for $125 today. It has 5 1/2 years left on its battery, so its essentially brand new. Its never been registered or activated. I should have it in time for next weekends flight.
Now I just need to work on getting some sort of tracker.
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