Dave wrote:

 

It would be nice if a way of extracting the altitude/airspeed/total energy
data from older varios and mixing it with the GPS NMEA data sentences in the
correct format could be found, (As modern varios such as 302/B50/vega etc
do) anyone got any ideas guys?

 

I agree, I have been talking to the guys at WinPilot to see if they can do
it to support WinPilot Pro from a Cambridge S-Nav but no luck so far.  Also
emailed Cambridge on the same point but they have failed to respond at all.
They probably think we will all upgrade to the 302, (hah).

 

Also bought one of the iPAQ 5550's from the guys advertising on eBAY for
$199 yesterday (Pocketronics (02) 9114 9224). It was delivered this morning,
brand new in the box. Good service!

 

ROSS

 

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: Wednesday, 8 August 2007 1:16 PM
To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379

 

Hi all,

 

Alan W:

 

Yep, I have seen those AIRIS PDA and they are fine, but as I will use either

FLARM or a logger as GPS source, another GPS would be redundant. Road nav

would be nice too. They also don't seem to have serial i/o connector, USB

only so would be unable to connect to FLARM, Vario or logger without using a

serial to Bluetooth adaptor, which may or may not work! At least FLARM and

Loggers have a baro pressure sensor, so one isn't relying on just GPS

altitude for final glide and thermalling data!

 

It would be nice if a way of extracting the altitude/airspeed/total energy

data from older varios and mixing it with the GPS NMEA data sentences in the

correct format could be found, (As modern varios such as 302/B50/vega etc

do) anyone got any ideas guys? An IGC compatible FLARM/Logger would be great

too.

 

Peter B:

 

Geez I didn't realise that guy had more 5500's, he must have got LOTS of

them!

 

Wouldn't be a bad option for equipping a club fleet at that price!

 

Does anyone know of somewhere in Aust that sells anti-reflective screen

protectors, yes I know that Craggy aero have them, but $15 for a small piece

of clear plastic seems a lot!

 

Now using XC soar 5.1.1beta4 and its is great! The developers respond really

quickly to bug reports and most feature requests. The excellent efforts of

the developers, particularly Scott Penrose and John Wharrington are most

appreciated-And they are based in Aus as well! 

 

Cheers

 

Dave

 

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Wilson

Sent: Monday, 6 August 2007 3:17 PM

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379

 

I suggest 

 

http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/airis-t620-pda-wi-fi-bluetooth-gps-functiona

lity/  PDA $379 or so.

 

A PDA with GPS inbuilt, Australian road navigation data base as well.

 

But it will load GPS_LOG. XCSOAR etc

 

Alan Wilson

Canberra

 

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