I'm really liking this I love the sound, I love the
responsiveness, the calmness. the information is spot-on.
so I can choose any instrument I want to. I'm gonna buy this one before I've even
done the review I decided I was gonna buy this because it's just perfect it's got
everything I want on one screen it's super clear, easy to set up and
very accurate I'm finding that it's spot-on
it's describing the thermal perfectly it's not overhyped and the way the
information is laid out it's a small screen but it's so efficient it's got
everything there everything on one screen if I want airspace I can switch
over to something else but that's about it. the big feature that's not obvious on
this thing is this little guy here the Flarm. big deal yeah this is a big deal!
for years we've had no way of showing up in other aircraft and we're pretty small
okay this might not be a problem for you when you start flying but when you've
got some experience and you're doing cross country particularly in the UK or anywhere in
the Alps when you get up to cloud base you're gonna be mixing with the sailplanes
and those guys are flying at 120 kilometres an hour they're
going on max speed glide under the cloud and they're not gonna see you. I mean
you're gonna have to watch out all the time. with this little thing you're now
appearing on their FLARM systems that's just cool you don't have to do anything
you just switch it on and you're gonna pop up inside the warning system so when
they're flying along they're gonna get wah wah paraglider five hundred meters
ahead, collision imminent! that's pretty cool. it might not be
something that you need now but it's certainly worth having and there doesn't
seem to be a much of an increase in the price just by adding that unit you can get
the standalone little tracker which is what I've popped onto Julian if you just
want to appear on the FLARM system but I would recommend get it with the
Skytrax get it on the 2.1 it hardly adds anything to the price and magic the
other guys can see you! there's another benefit to it with the FANET where you
can actually see the other pilots that have got FANET instruments it's gonna
be like guys that have got the Beacons, Skytraxx and very soon guys
that have got Oudie 5 (the new Oudie's gonna have the FANET) and the Naviter Blade. I'm sure
other manufacturers will join the trend it's a really useful system but that's
not the main thing it's not about seeing other aircraft, it's about them seeing you.
I can see another pilot out here climbing some going across to find some
lift. that's just so easy to see what's going
I can see the wind is coming from the left of me, as I'm gliding
Really easy to centre the thermal and if you want to, go over to the thermaling screen ...
nice ... it's such a nice display. I've got everything that I want and it's
got a nice informative display, easy to see got all the info there, it's showing me
my lift where the lift is where I went through lift, tracks of the wind. I've got
my headwind here it's very easy to line it up so now I'm straight into wind. I've
got my current ground speed. I've got the direction, I've got my glide angle,
altitude and average vario over seven seconds. also the very on the left-hand
side. so pretty much everything that I need is right here.
overall this guy is a fantastic unit for going flying from the school it's a
very simple vario, it's very easy to use and all the information is there it's
got all your airspace everything for cross-country flying you can do
triangles and things like that if you want you can put turn points in. it's a
little bit limited on their turn point functionality, when you start
getting to sort of more advanced flying where you're trying to put in turn
points on the hill for your triangle or goal flight or something like that it
is a bit limited so there you might want to go for a full range top of the range
instrument but you know that's only a small subset of pilots. for me personally
absolutely perfect! It does everything I want I don't need a faff with tasks and
things I just fly and it lasts for a long time, it's super light, very nice to use
and makes me happy! Skytraxx 2.1 ... check out the information on the
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