Air glide Vario family versus S100 LXNAV - Comments on Winds and Performance?

Walt. The “Air glide� sensor module can compensate for some stable electronic fields and even weak magnetic fiields. What it can’t handle is oscillating or moving fields. I moved mine three times before finding success. The culprits were speakers and proximity to moving flight controls or push rods. Gliders apparently acquire some magnetism in the course of their building and flying. You could try degaussing but how would one do that?
I have an S80 in both my ASG 29 and Libelle and they do about as good a job as the old reliable SN10 at reading winds. The Air Glide is a whole lot better at real time winds And provides some really cool information in mountains and convergences. I wish I had gone to the extra effort and purchased the Air Glide for the other gliders.
Dale Bush

I've installed Air Glide ISU to two different gliders with no problems at all. Just follow the manual.

I had the butterfly in my '20. I remember a couple of years ago flying
late evening returning north from Vinon to St Auban in the Alps with
the butterfly showing a brisk north wind. I switched to St Auban
frequency and was surprised to hear them announcing landing to the
south. I was around 2000 metres. As I descended i hit a slightly
'bumpy' layer and within about 50 metres the wind indication switched
180 degrees.

I also found the butterfly wind indication very reliable when flying
ridges and could guarantee to get onto the ridge best into the local
wind.




At 07:42 15 December 2018, krasw wrote:
I've installed Air Glide ISU to two different gliders with no problems at
all. Just follow the manual.