Where is the LX S80?

On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:59:01 UTC+3, jfitch wrote:
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 5:33:24 AM UTC-7, krasw wrote:

On Thursday, 9 October 2014 04:18:53 UTC+3, jfitch wrote:



On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 3:30:33 PM UTC-7, wrote:







What are the differences in the inertial nagivation systems between the Butterfly vario and the S80?































The LX literature was confusing on how wind calculations are made and it says in one place that the S80 makes continuous wind calculations on its own but in another place it says that the S80 requires the compass module to improve wind calculations.















There is no information in the manual about inertial vertical air mass movement nor inertially derived wind - the two most impressive things about the Butterfly (Air).















It looks like it does have a very nice Flarm display and flarm warnings - the two least impressive things about the Butterfly.







I really can't think any scenario where I would not absolutely wan't to see variometer info and Flamr radar at same time, on separate displays. Main job of the variometer is to tell you what the glider and airmass are doing vertically. That seems to be very diffult thing to do. Flarm radar display is best shown on big moving map, with additional LED display on top of your panel.



Why separate displays? On the Butterfly, all the vario information is always shown, regardless of whatever screen you are looking at - traffic, AHRS included.

Hardly, as variometer display is only narrow tape on side of display. Not very practical in real life.

Why do we have separate instruments at all? Because it is most effective way to display data to pilot. Nowadays everyone seems to be doing only lists of different features on different instruments, with very little thought into what is important, and how does the most essential parts of instruments work (like variometer, on variometer, trivial as it sounds). And how unimportant data only makes things more confusing.

This image makes my point to perfection:

http://lxnav.com/downloads/images/S80/S80_front.png

No imagine flying under cloudstreet in gaggle at 200 kph and read some info from that screen...