[Aus-soaring] Tasman New Vario

2014-12-05 Thread David Cleland
Tasman Instruments have released a completely new model, the VRM 10 Sprite. It has a lot of new features such as elapsed time clock, recorded alarms including under carriage warning but its best feature is the way it allows you to more daily centre thermals. It also has up/down arrows showing

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tasman New Vario

2014-12-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
Imitation is the greatest compliment. Sounds like they've copied most of the features from our B700/900. We've had the climb improving green light since the B400/B500 9 years ago and put in the comparator for the running average/thermal average as well on the B700 3 years ago and its more

Re: [Aus-soaring] varios

2014-12-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
I should add that none of our instruments have required a flask since 1982. We've used solid state silicon pressure sensors since then. Also all drive vario repeater displays for two seaters. Metric or knots and on the B600/B800/B700/B900 the calibration can be changed by PC(B600/800) or

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tasman New Vario

2014-12-05 Thread Tim Shirley
Hi all, Thanks heaps to people posting factual information about products of interest to soaring pilots. It is so much more useful than most of the nonsense that passes for comment here. Even if people are singing the praises of their own products, I still welcome all such information. I

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tasman New Vario

2014-12-05 Thread Chris
Yes David the Tasman looks like the ducks guts I have ordered one with the flight pack for the twin 103 great value for money as well On 6 Dec 2014, at 12:15 pm, David Cleland davidlclel...@gmail.com wrote: Tasman Instruments have released a completely new model, the VRM 10 Sprite. It

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tasman New Vario

2014-12-05 Thread Colin Collum
G’day Tim and Others, The Colibri II has the audio plus it navigates/records etc with a 6 hour battery life of its own. The audio can be turned off easily when it’s not required. And if the agent reads this I’m prepared to accept a small [or even a large ] commission! J Regards, Colin

Re: [Aus-soaring] Tasman New Vario

2014-12-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
Colin, A vario in stand alone logger won't have total energy. While TE introduces problems it is essential in modern slippery gliders. In your Blanik , Grunau Baby etc not so much. We did considerable flight data logging in developing Dynamis some of it in smooth air trying to fly