Yep I've had mine for years too. Nice unit. Just watch you keep the
battery from getting too low inbetween flights
-Cath
On 07/08/2007, at 4:21 PM, Derek Ruddock wrote:
I’ve had my 5550 for a couple of years, and it’s perfectly
readable: much better that some I have seen.
If you can get hold of a matt screen protector, the contrast
improves by reducing the reflections
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Simon,
How does it look in full sunlight??
Mark
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Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] IPaq Look-alike with inbuilt GPS. $379
I got 5500 too. Nice guy.
Simon Holding
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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
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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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Alan Wilson
Sent: Monday, 6 August 2007 3:17 PM
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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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