Borgelt B500

[Guy Corbett]

I would be interested to hear from users of the B500,
especially those in Europe and those with the GCD2
with mini-sd card.
I bought my unit at the end of last year, I find the
steering to a waypoint information is consistently
7-14 degrees out. The manufacturer is unable to reproduce
the problem and tells me he has had no other complaints.
As he is in Australia I suspect that the problem may
be to do with the longitudes and latitudes which I
fly in, I have seen the problem in both the UK and
Germany. He tells me that the software is the same
for users with the old GCD without SD card. I compare
the course with a Garmin G3P, a Volkslogger and most
surprisingly a PDA running mobile SeeYou from the datastream
provided by the B500. The other 3 devices agree within
a degree but the B500 usually shows turn 10 degrees
left.

[Ian Cant]

True or magnetic ?



At 11:54 18 June 2007, Guy Corbett wrote:
>I would be interested to hear from users of the B500,
>especially those in Europe and those with the GCD2
>with mini-sd card.
>I bought my unit at the end of last year, I find the
>steering to a waypoint information is consistently
>7-14 degrees out. The manufacturer is unable to reproduce
>the problem and tells me he has had no other complaints.
> As he is in Australia I suspect that the problem may
>be to do with the longitudes and latitudes which I
>fly in, I have seen the problem in both the UK and
>Germany. He tells me that the software is the same
>for users with the old GCD without SD card. I compare
>the course with a Garmin G3P, a Volkslogger and most
>surprisingly a PDA running mobile SeeYou from the datastream
>provided by the B500. The other 3 devices agree within
>a degree but the B500 usually shows turn 10 degrees
>left.
>
>
>

[Guy Corbett]

At 13:54 18 June 2007, Ian Cant wrote:
>
>
>
>True or magnetic ?
>

The steering info is a turn left/right indicator so
the user has no no choice of true or magnetic, I have
suggested to Mike Borgelt this as a potential cause
of the problem but he has been unable to find anything
like this in his code.

[Guy Corbett]

Is anyone using either model of B500 anywhere?


At 11:54 18 June 2007, Guy Corbett wrote:
>I would be interested to hear from users of the B500,
>especially those in Europe and those with the GCD2
>with mini-sd card.
>I bought my unit at the end of last year, I find the
>steering to a waypoint information is consistently
>7-14 degrees out. The manufacturer is unable to reproduce
>the problem and tells me he has had no other complaints.
> As he is in Australia I suspect that the problem may
>be to do with the longitudes and latitudes which I
>fly in, I have seen the problem in both the UK and
>Germany. He tells me that the software is the same
>for users with the old GCD without SD card. I compare
>the course with a Garmin G3P, a Volkslogger and most
>surprisingly a PDA running mobile SeeYou from the datastream
>provided by the B500. The other 3 devices agree within
>a degree but the B500 usually shows turn 10 degrees
>left.
>
>
>

[Avron]

I have the model without the card and using the latest software.
Steering commands looks OK.
I will try this weekend to compare with othe GPS during flught and
will report.

Avron Tal, 4X-GMR, Israel