I spoke to Gary Kammerer of Clear Nav a few days ago and am pleased to report he will be taking over the service of the 302 varios & 303 navigator (he has been doing service on earlier LNav and model 20 loggers). The owners of Cambridge closed the doors for business earlier this year and finally parted with parts etc so service could be continued. The owners of Clear Nav are glider pilots as is the software developers who are based in UK.
Most of the issues with 302s is the equipment made at Martinsville which was between Vermont base and then Memphis as quality control was not good enough. There were little issues with equipment which came from Gary and then Jeff Bennett at Memphis. It is now 20 years since Cambridge introduced GPS logging to the gliding world and all that gear can now be serviced. The Clear Nav vario has been extremely slow at coming to the market but think this has proved a good decision. The presentation of climb and cruise I believe is better than the 302 but the same very reliable transition between cruise and climb of 302 has still been retained. Clear Nav have submitted the Vario to the IGC and await their approval as a secure logger which I would like to think may be done by Christmas.. Coming shortly for the CN vario will be an inexpensive navigation display and will look a little like the Cambridge 303 navigator. It is designed for those not coupling their vario to the CN Multi Function Display or Nexus 7 etc. I recently did an install and customer with 2 seater and was using a pair of Nexus 7 using XC soar and are linking it to Clear Nav Vario via an IOIO box from Sweden. This looks interesting and I would expect even better displays just around the corner. That's about all I know for know for now. Ian McPhee 0428847642
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