Thanks guys, i get it now. Its been fun catching up with the science of soaring
After so many years away. When I was active, the asw20 and ventus A were the hot ships in 15m and dick butler was leading the show in open with his 604. Bow says the standard class ships have them all beat!
I must say I do feel the old style of racing where everyone is doing the same tasks is probably a better determiner of quality of airmanship, where disicion making skills on task are evaluated head to head as oppossed to the new style where everyone can more or less do their own thing. Its just a whole new ball game now.
I am going in a slightly different direction working up to doing some record flying in the 1-26 association. Quite a step down from our ventus and for that matter my pilatus b4 but as some of you know the 1-26 will make a pilot outta ya, can't make any mistakes when you only have 22/1 l/d to work with!
Craig you are thinking of my brother Jim who was pretty tight with george and the zunis. I was doing most of the crewing for jim in the 15m regionals and nationals. We got around there for a few years, from hobbs to ionia to cal city etc. I do miss not living in minden however, I am flying dusters all summer in north dakota so no time for soaring but I am in the florida panhandle country for the winter months where a 4k thermal to 4,000agl is a booming day LOL.
Any thanks again folks I sure appreciated the help. Safe flying and many diamonds to you all.
Dan
Quote:
Originally Posted by Craig Funston
On Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 5:43:11 PM UTC-8, dan nezgoda wrote:
I am an old geezer returning to soaring after years of hiatus. I go back
to sectional maps, hand held final glide calcs n cameras mounted to the
canopy. I purchased a glider with an oudie and a ew microrecorder with a
handfull of cables.
a few questions:
I can work the oudie ok, its great and I understand the microrecorder
records flight data, but
-does the ew recorder record the flight data it captures itself? I see
the remote gps is plumbed to the recorder.
-does the recorder record the data it gets from the ouies gps?
-do I need to have an interconnect between the oudie and the recorder?
or can I just let the ew recorder capture its internal data to give me a
record of the flight. I see some comments saying improper plumbing of
oudie to ew recorder will cook the ew recorder.
Any help will surely be appreciated.
Dan
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dan nezgoda
Dan, welcome back to soaring. I remember working on your Zuni many years ago at George's shop. The best part of the oudie is having easy access to a list of alternates that are within range. Have fun!
Craig
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Originally Posted by Tim Newport-Peace[_2_]
At 12:47 12 November 2015, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:02:58 +0000, Julian Rees wrote:
As Kev says the EW will log without the Oudie, connecting the two
together allows the Oudie to get a better GPS signal and also to get a
barometric altitude from the EW (if you use and Oudie on it's own it
uses GPS altitdude).
Adding to that: I use an EW Microrecorder, but the only external
connection mine has (apart from its GPS antenna) is a 12v supply via the
multi-line (RJ 45?) connector between the GPS antenna and USB sockets,
and that's primarily to keep its internal batteries topped up.
The one thing to note about EW Microrecorders is that the internal
batteries are NIMH rechargeables which have a fairly high self-discharge
rate. This means that if you leave it sitting on a shelf the battery will
be flat after 3 months or so and, if left like that, it will become an
ex-
battery and need replacement. During the winter I turn mine on every
month or so and, if it only flashes once or twice, it gets charged
overnight on a USB charger.
Have care in using the RJ45. It is not to IGC Standard wiring, heed the
warning at http://www.spsys.demon.co.uk/download.htm#EWA2
Tim Newport-Peace
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