Although a quite a bit more expensive, the LXNAV Nano 3 makes a great portable vario plus you get a backup IGC certified flight logger just in case you lose power to everything else. The moving map will help you find your way home too. I leave mine turned on with the audio muted and connected to a 5 Volt Mini USB port powered from the ship's main battery so it's always fully charged. It's velcroed out of site behind my Oudie. I also take it with me when not flying my ship as it logs and stores all of my flights making filling out the logbook at the end of the season easy.


On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 9:00:08 AM UTC-6, Michael Opitz wrote:
At 17:28 09 November 2015, wrote:
A Hornig vario! That brings back memories. Never flew with one but
it was
said to be pretty advanced/high-tech in its day. Like the Crossfell
vario
before it.

I did fly with a PIEP for a number of years and it worked well.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
U.S.A.

I have a Piep plumbed together with a Sage CV, and I still use it.
Bought it new back in the late 1970's. It's my primary audio,
and with the Sage, works as a back-up for failure of the main glider
computer....... I also have a main battery with sometimes two back up
batteries, thanks to having a main (and only) battery fail on me at the
1985 WGC in Rieti. -- That was not a good day, and I learned an
important lesson there....

Mike Opitz
RO
USA