> Without checking the Flytec site, please tell me what/why the size of > the market has to do with anything?
Divide the cost of development by the number of sales... For the glider market, this is a big number. > Are the HG/PG instruments directly usable by GFA pilots? You seem to > suggest that they are at least as good, and maybe better for our use? Not really, no. Talking about the variometers, they are generally less sensitive (slower response, poor resolution) than required in a glider. Not that it is impossible, but if you took a commodity pg/hg vario into your glider I doubt you'd be impressed by its performance. But these instruments also don't do everything that is required in a glider --- AAT tasks, airspace management, etc. > Are GFA pilots missing out on something here? If so what and why? > Surely if they are usable in GFA type sailplanes, there are pressing > commercial reasons why the manufacturers of these instruments should > be promoting them to GFA type pilots. They're not fit for purpose. To make them so, they'd need to spend X hours at $$ per hour doing so. Even the casing design is not appropriate for use in a glider --- can't fit a flytec gizmo in a 57mm instrument hole! Nor would you want to run it off a couple of AA cells.. And you want to plug it into a speaker, so you need it to have an onboard amplifier... So you see, they're different not just because of market size, but because of different use. Johnny _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
