Don,
While
I understand what you're saying about the ELV...The ALTi2 Data Logger provides a
different kind of information for a different situation. Most of my
customers...Bacus, Meyer, Strother, Glover, etc are using the ALTi2 to gather
data on their launch profile in order to analyze to enable them to optimize
their launch technique. The ELV isn't used for the same purpose as you've
described it.
At any
rate...Use what suits your need and works for you...That, in the end, is usually
the best tool...YMMV.
-Sheldon-
YNT
uDesign
A
Soaring Nationals Supporter
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Subject: Re: [RCSE] Altitude braggers
My best flight was 1,600 feet on flight 4. (Not as high as Saturday.)
My best launch was 600 ft. on flight 3.
Worst launch, 1st flight was 538 ft.
I love my LoLo.
While this "after the fact data" is interesting and perhaps useful for young guys with good memory, I prefer the instant gratification of ELV that I obtained from Gordy. It will tell you instantly your launch altitude, record your highest altitude during the flight and give you the familiar tones during the flight. I find it particularly useful to know my absolute altitude during the flight. Several times I have guessed that I was higher, only to have the timer report that I had lost several hundred feet in the previous minutes. Data is recorded in a spiral notebook.
Highest altitude to date is 637 meters or about 2070 feet. It also showed my launch altitude with my F5J electric sailplane at 1300 feet consistently. Looks like I need more cells to keep up with Lenny Keer.
Don Richmond
San Diego, CA (Albuquerque, NM today)
www.hilaunch.com
