On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 7:29:08 PM UTC-7, wrote:
I am very interested in the Butterfly Vario also but am waiting to hear from more users. The price is very steep. What I am looking for is a multipurpose display/instrument. I am hopeful that the Flarm display will become more complete. I am looking forward to the Angle of Attack (AOA) feature that is supposed to be released later this year. The inertial instrumentation to filter out horizontal gusts is very attractive.



At this time I am very happy with my C302 and want to add Flarm but have limited panel space and do not want to start stacking boxes and instruments on top of my panel and on multiple RAM mounts around my cockpit.



It seems that Butterfly is spending most of their time dealing with Flarm issues and the dedicated Butterfly Flarm display and putting the Butterfly Vario on the back burner.



Waiting. Watching. Listening. Hopeful. Not ready to write the check yet.

I wouldn't say "back burner". They have responded very quickly to a couple of bugs I discovered.

I too bought it partly because of limited panel space and the integrated traffic display. The traffic display is incomplete and does not show the alarm screen, or any PCAS traffic at all. However this is nicely displayed on good PDA software (but not the PCAS targets so far as I know). What it DOES do is give you a very good voice alert: "GLIDER, 12 O'CLOCK ABOVE, TWO" meaning there is a FLARM warning of a glider at your 12 higher and 200 meters distant. I was a bit skeptical at this but having used it a few months now I think it is probably better than the display alert, if you have to choose between the two. There are voice warnings for gear, spoilers, speeds and obstacles (the latter in Europe only). In my glider this is a welcome change - I had three separate buzzers before and when one went off, I could spend a fair amount of time trying to figure out what the hell was going on. A Flarm display was going to add a 4th buzzer, with additional confusion. I would still like to see them implement full Flarm display on the vario.