iGlide

On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 5:15:11 PM UTC-8, wrote:
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-5, Ben S wrote:
If you are an Air Avionics iGlide user, please share your evaluation.
Also interested in knowing if you are happy with the sunlight
readability of your iPhone. Is iPhone 6 brighter than iPhone 5?

Top Hat https://www.tophatsoaring.org/ is another excellent glide computer (glide computer only, not a logger). Impressive on a Samsung S10 and its free.

Top Hat as well as XCSoar has a logging function..

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:49:13 -0800, 6PK wrote:

On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 5:15:11 PM UTC-8,
wrote:
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-5, Ben S wrote:
If you are an Air Avionics iGlide user, please share your evaluation.
Also interested in knowing if you are happy with the sunlight
readability of your iPhone. Is iPhone 6 brighter than iPhone 5?

Top Hat https://www.tophatsoaring.org/ is another excellent glide
computer (glide computer only, not a logger). Impressive on a Samsung
S10 and its free.

Top Hat as well as XCSoar has a logging function..

So does the other clone, LK8000. It writes G records at the end of a log,
so I suppose that means that XCsoar and TopHat do too.

But AFAIK none of these are accepted anywhere as equivalent to a secure
FR or PR, which means they can't be used for badge claims. They're fine
for the BGAladder and similar national league tables. I don't use OLC so
don't know if they will accept logs from them.


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Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

On 2/13/20 10:23 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:49:13 -0800, 6PK wrote:

On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 5:15:11 PM UTC-8,
wrote:
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-5, Ben S wrote:
If you are an Air Avionics iGlide user, please share your evaluation.
Also interested in knowing if you are happy with the sunlight
readability of your iPhone. Is iPhone 6 brighter than iPhone 5?

Top Hat https://www.tophatsoaring.org/ is another excellent glide
computer (glide computer only, not a logger). Impressive on a Samsung
S10 and its free.

Top Hat as well as XCSoar has a logging function..

So does the other clone, LK8000. It writes G records at the end of a log,
so I suppose that means that XCsoar and TopHat do too.

But AFAIK none of these are accepted anywhere as equivalent to a secure
FR or PR, which means they can't be used for badge claims. They're fine
for the BGAladder and similar national league tables. I don't use OLC so
don't know if they will accept logs from them.


Yes OLC will accept them. Unless you're a motorglider, they don't
record engine noise.

Top Hat igc files are acceptable for OLC flights, but not for badges.

On 2/12/2020 6:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-5, Ben S wrote:
If you are an Air Avionics iGlide user, please share your evaluation.
Also interested in knowing if you are happy with the sunlight
readability of your iPhone. Is iPhone 6 brighter than iPhone 5?
Top Hat https://www.tophatsoaring.org/ is another excellent glide computer (glide computer only, not a logger). Impressive on a Samsung S10 and its free.

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Dan, 5J

On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 4:43:10 PM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
Top Hat igc files are acceptable for OLC flights, but not for badges.

On 2/12/2020 6:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-5, Ben S wrote:
If you are an Air Avionics iGlide user, please share your evaluation.
Also interested in knowing if you are happy with the sunlight
readability of your iPhone. Is iPhone 6 brighter than iPhone 5?
Top Hat https://www.tophatsoaring.org/ is another excellent glide computer (glide computer only, not a logger). Impressive on a Samsung S10 and its free.

--
Dan, 5J

iGlide will upload your IGC file directly to OLC from the phone, no intermediate steps at all.

On 2/13/20 7:04 PM, jfitch wrote:
On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 4:43:10 PM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
Top Hat igc files are acceptable for OLC flights, but not for badges.

On 2/12/2020 6:15 PM, wrote:
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-5, Ben S wrote:
If you are an Air Avionics iGlide user, please share your evaluation.
Also interested in knowing if you are happy with the sunlight
readability of your iPhone. Is iPhone 6 brighter than iPhone 5?
Top Hat https://www.tophatsoaring.org/ is another excellent glide computer (glide computer only, not a logger). Impressive on a Samsung S10 and its free.

--
Dan, 5J

iGlide will upload your IGC file directly to OLC from the phone, no intermediate steps at all.


Does iGlide record engine noise level? Flying a Stemme, he would need that.

No engine noise level with iGlide sadly. I fly a ASH-26e and have inquired about this. I really like iGlide but all of my flights using it are not qualified for OLC.