I did not even know that this type of gear was available.
Is this all prototype stuff or is it in production?
On 11/14/06, Scott Penrose
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 14/11/2006, at 16:54, David Griffiths wrote:
> Tells us a bit more about your Vega Scott.
> I'm interested in finding more about it and how you have connected
> in your cockpit.
Here is my old cockpit layout in the Cobra. The new layout (sorry,
don't have a picture) has the organiser stuck with velcro over the
old averager (top left).
Here is the Vega itself - I have a proper ring around it now though,
so it looks much nicer.
as you can see it fits into a small instrument slot.
On the back you connect:
* 12 volt power in - with a fuse of course
* 4 pressure inputs
- Static
- pitot
- TE
- Stall (I don't have this connected yet, as it requires drilling a
hole i my glider).
* output to speaker
* separate output to headphones
* output from radio goes into the back (the audio voice, vario and
radio is all mixed through the one speaker).
* 5 volt power output and serial connection to my organiser (it
provides the 5 volts & serial connection)
* Flarm or other Gps or other logger connection - provides the 12
volt power
(the Nmea from the Gps is mixed with the vega & flarm messages to
the organiser automatically)
* Airframe switches - flaps (not for me of course - I don't have
any), trim position, gear, extra buttons on the stick
* Temperature and humidity sensors.
Here is my stick
Built in is also 2 accelerometers.
Some of the features that are programmable include:
* Absolutely anything to do with Audio, including volume and speed
and pitch and ramps for each - allowing each of those to change with
amount of lift.
* Volume of vario during radio in and out - if I get an incoming
radio i dull mine to quiet, but I can still hear it - you can turn it
of altogether.
* level of TE mix - e.g. you can choose the % of calculated (pitot
and accelerometer compensated static) and actual (TE) - 80/20 for
example.
(i see a time when we probably won't bother with te, but I could
be wrong there)
* meaning (input, event and output) of each airframe and stick buttons
* lots lots more...
In flight now I have started to turn off my old vario because I find
I occasionally look at it, and I really don't need to - so it is just
using power. There is a live and average etc displayed on the PDA but
i find I am really only using the 30 second average and total thermal
average.
In flight I just use the stick for:
* repeat message & change display
* acknowledge message
* holding the above two controls the flarm warning levels ( e.g.
lowering the level of threat during early gaggles in a comp)
* drop marker
* next waypoint - it is automatic on the PDA but if I want to just
head home, I can click that a couple of times to skip around to home
- or if I want to choose when to turn on the AAT I can select it that
way.
* on the vega itself I use one switch if I want to force cruise/climb
(otherwise it is automatic depending on the position of my trim) and
to set my MacCready (it sets it both internally for cruise speed
noise and sends it through to the PDA).
Here are some links:
Manufacturers: http://www.triadis.ch/index.php?vega
(although one of the designers is here in Melbourne)
rf supplies vega & altair http://www.rf-developments.com/
page_1143080341671.html
(altair is a glass cockpit)
XCSoar support for vega http://www.xcsoar.org/mediawiki/index.php/
Hardware/Vario/Vega
Happy and safe soaring everyone !
Scott
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