New Soaring PNA Available

On May 10, 7:29*pm, Bastoune wrote:
Two quick questions:

What is the screen resolution?
Is there a serial port? If so, has anyone tried to interface with
flight computer or vario?

Thanks!

Screen res is 800x480 with a 533mhz CPU.

There is a port marked COM that we will be experimenting with to see
if it will take NMEA.
Or you could buy (and we will be supplying shortly) an integration
cable/charging cable that will let you connect an external NMEA feed.

Al

On 5/10/2010 9:12 PM, wrote:
On May 10, 7:29 pm, wrote:

Two quick questions:

What is the screen resolution?
Is there a serial port? If so, has anyone tried to interface with
flight computer or vario?

Thanks!

Screen res is 800x480 with a 533mhz CPU.

Sunlight readability compared to an Ipaq 3850?

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (netto to net to email me)

On May 10, 9:41*pm, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 5/10/2010 9:12 PM, wrote: On May 10, 7:29 pm, *wrote:

Two quick questions:

What is the screen resolution?
Is there a serial port? If so, has anyone tried to interface with
flight computer or vario?

Thanks!

Screen res is 800x480 with a 533mhz CPU.

Sunlight readability compared to an Ipaq 3850?

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (netto to net to email me)

Much better however its hard to define as everyone has their own
opinions about readability.

What is more important is the readability with more screen real
estate.

Cheers

Al

On May 10, 9:53*pm, "
wrote:

What is more important is the readability with more screen real
estate.

And a free Plastic Jesus!
http://web.archive.org/web/200605210...ng/gliding.htm

On May 10, 10:10*pm, JS wrote:
On May 10, 9:53*pm, "
wrote:

What is more important is the readability with more screen real
estate.

And a free Plastic Jesus!http://web.archive.org/web/200605210...ght.com/Glidin...

Ok Jim, I'll throw in free plastic Jesus upgrade for the first 10
purchasers.

The JPS (Jesus Positioning Unit) will be autographed with a Sharpie by
yours truely.

Al

One question

what makes this device so expensive please?

I see a normal cheap chinese Navigation device with no additional
gear.
Also if this is additional gear it will cost about 10$


So lets calculate

Cheap chinese Navigation device : 60-100$
Additional Gear : 10$
Software : 0$ (XCSoar and LK8000) is FREEWARE

On May 10, 10:42*pm, TRKA wrote:
One question

what makes this device so expensive please?

I see a normal cheap chinese Navigation device with no additional
gear.
Also if this is additional gear it will cost about 10$

So lets calculate

Cheap chinese Navigation device : 60-100$
Additional Gear : 10$
Software : 0$ (XCSoar and LK8000) is FREEWARE

There are many different options out there for "cheap chinese
navigators" I chose what I consider to be the best value and
performance.
Then you have configuration setup and support.

Sure anyone can put together the same solution however there are a lot
of pilots out there who want something that is easy to use and works
out the box in their region configured for their glider.

You should ask the other vendors selling similar products at over 2
times the price the same question.

Al

On May 11, 1:42*am, TRKA wrote:

So lets calculate

It's the difference between "an egg" and "breakfast".

-T8

In my experience, XC Soar does't always install easily. Once the
program is running, getting all the files you need (especially
terrain) isn't as simple as with SeeYou PDA or PNA or WinPilot (I've
only installed WP on PDAs). No experience with LK8000. To be honest, I
prefer the $2500 Altair to display XC Soar. Not a touch screen, but
very bright and clear with buttons next to where you would ordinarily
touch. It's necessary to design the panel around it.
There are quite a few cheap Chinese PNAs available in bulk from Hong
Kong, and some even locally as single units. TRKA, how does the less
than $100 unit you bought and configured work? The cheapest ones I've
built would be a Navigon with SeeYouPNA (and a later failure
installing XC Soar on the same device), or a HP 310 with XC Soar. The
Navigon works great, HP too after much suggestion that it's parents
weren't married. It still has no terrain. Neither are particularly
readable.
I heard the XC Soar terrain file generator problem is from having
too large a task area?
Jim

On May 10, 10:42*pm, TRKA wrote:
One question

what makes this device so expensive please?

I see a normal cheap chinese Navigation device with no additional
gear.
Also if this is additional gear it will cost about 10$

So lets calculate

Cheap chinese Navigation device : 60-100$
Additional Gear : 10$
Software : 0$ (XCSoar and LK8000) is FREEWARE

On May 11, 6:26*am, "
wrote:
On May 10, 10:10*pm, JS wrote:

On May 10, 9:53*pm, "
wrote:

What is more important is the readability with more screen real
estate.

And a free Plastic Jesus!http://web.archive.org/web/200605210...ght.com/Glidin...

Ok Jim, I'll throw in free plastic Jesus upgrade for the first 10
purchasers.

The JPS (Jesus Positioning Unit) will be autographed with a Sharpie by
yours truely.

Al

Plastic is a bit old hat. I'd expect Jesus to be digitized and to
appear on screen as a pop-up at appropriate times - such as below a
user defined altitude or on a marginal final glide - and I'd expect to
have a choice of prophets and deities for pilots of other faiths - or
for those (like me) who can go through a variety of short term
religious conversions in the course of a single flight.