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Old January 30th 17, 08:17 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Peter F[_2_]
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Default Thoughts on panel upgrade?

Other than the aesthetics no advantage at all.

If the LNAV is working spend the money on aerotows.
If you don't have Flarm get one
Then go do loads & loads of flying especially on the iffy days.

PF

At 05:17 30 January 2017, Paul wrote:
I've been flying gliders one season, and managed to earn the bronze

badge.
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I plan to start on the silver badge this spring, and hope to fly cross
cou=
ntry. I've only used the Cambridge as a vario, and it works fine; I
imagin=
e it's navigation interface is clunky compared to my tablets. The Kobo
XCS=
oar tablet gives lots of glider flight data, and the Android tablet also
ru=
ns XCSoar, in case of a Kobo failure.

I imagine some of you have been down this road. Other than the obvious
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thetics, what's the benefit of replacing the Cambridge gear with

something
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like an LXNAV S100?

Thanks,
Paul