Jelle Vandebeeck has just released a new app for sailplane pilots. He writes, “I recently released a small application for the iPhone [and] iPad to view your IGC files. It’s a bit like a very very lightweight SeeYou. I’m now trying to spread it throughout the soaring community so hopefully people can use this handy application.”…
[The following information was provided by Richard Kellerman from ClearNav Instruments. – Editor] Product Overview The CNI vario will offer ClearNav customers a completely integrated vario and a new standard of performance made possible through the use of contemporary sensors and microprocessors. The vario has also been designed to integrate with other MFD devices, including…
Tiffany Fidler took several pictures of the installation of the new PowerFlarms in gliders at UvaldeGlide. You can see them below.
The ‘Portable’ PowerFLARM is now FCC approved and available in the US. Please contact your PowerFLARM dealer to execute your order or place a new one. The Brick is under development and testing but will not be available before the end of the year.
Soaring has a lot of articles about the future of technology. They tend to focus on hardware: new materials, new gliders, new airfoils. They envision the variable-geometry, boundary-layer controlled, 70:1 300 pound glider of the future. The far future. But this is the electronic age. Most of the big changes in soaring in the last…
Alisport Srl of Italy recently completed the first flight of a Silent 2 fitted with an electric propulsion system installed in collaboration with LZ Design. The system, based on the FES (Front Electric Sustainer), is capable of self-launching the Silent. Video footage posted on the Vimeo website shows the Silent 2 lifting off on its…
At the 2011 SSA Conference, Paul Remde of Cumulus Soaring demoed the LX 9000 flight computer system, which features a larger screen than its predecessor, the LX 8000 and a vario which displays flight information than can be selected by the pilot. The LX 9000 display will be familiar to users of Naviter’s SeeYou Mobile…
At the SSA Conference in January, 2011, Paul Remde of Cumulus Soaring created a video in which he demos the new LXNav Nano Flight Recorder. This device is the smallest IGC-approved flight recorder on the market and, to my knowledge, the least expensive. With an 11-hour battery life and the low price, this minuscule flight…
Lee Kulkhe (the US PowerFLARM distributor) and Dave Nadler provided a prototype PowerFLARM unit for SSA Conference participants to see and hold. This unit was built in October of last year and been used by Dave as a development platform for the updated software. Dave has also flown with this unit. The unit is fully…
I really did not give my glider battery much thought until it ran down and took out my logger 7 miles from the airport at 6,000 FT AGL on the final leg of my first 300K gold distance flight attempt. After that I gave my glider battery a lot of thought. Until recently a Sealed…
