Paul Remde, Cumulus Soaring, provides a nice description of the Oudie on his site–check it out here. I have been using the Oudie and SeeYou Mobile since last year and find it to be fantastic. I recently received a question asking how I used the Oudie and SeeYou Mobile and here is what I said:
I really have just a few nav boxes showing as I want the Oudie to complement (fill in) my situational awareness in ways that the SN-10 does not provide. For me, the SN-10 provides all the “timing” for a task (e.g. ETA, time remaining, all of the final glide info, speed-to-fly, etc.). I do set the actual point that I am going to for an AAT in the SN-10 and in the Oudie.
The Naviter guys setup L/D nav boxes as the default for final glide. I don’t get that. They say it is because the measure your actual L/D and therefore the pilot can compare achieved vs required and make informed final glide calculations — doesn’t help me at all. I use arrival altitudes, a good polar that I trust, and wind from the SN-10.
And, this is much that is not documented. For example, if you slide your finger from the left edge to the right edge and vise-versa, you will changes pages just like on an iPhone. This is important as I change between page 1 and page 2 all of the time. Page 1 is for cruising, page 2 is for climbing.
Page 1 of the Oudie provides the moving map primarily — where am I going, where is the course line relative my current position, course deviation estimation, visual angle of deviation to the turn, breadcrumbs back to thermals, etc. As for Nav boxes, I have two small “islands” in the lower right and left corners. So, lower left, Target, Arrival Altitude, Dist to Target (Dist Inv is added for international contests). Page 2 is zoomed way in and I use it for keeping up with the thermal core. I have a few different nav boxes, the task timing boxes, just to experiment with what the Oudie thinks vs the SN-10 — still prefer the SN-10.
Some other things the Oudie does that the SN-10 does not. Start gate altitude and countdown time. TP information–Name and what altitude will I arrive at most TPs or Landable sites. Airspace. Where I am going next for a MAT. Declare tasks into logger. Download IGC file from logger. No terrain, I can see that looking out the window! Probably much more, I will have to look at mine and think about it.
