LX Navigation Zeus

On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 01:02:31 UTC+1, wrote:
Anyone had any experience with the Zeus? Please share your opinions on its quality and performance.

The LX9000 has the enormous advantage that the software has been around for long enough to have been fairly well de-bugged (I have one and love it). Early adopters of the LX8000 had problems. If I was looking for something new now, the Zeus would have to offer significant feature benefits for me to consider being an early adopter.

That pic of an LX9000 with synthetic vision (3D) view of the hills has been on the LX Nav website for quite a time, but with no mention of the feature in the text.

Personally, I would not go for an LX8080. One of the biggest benefits of the 9000 is the large display - if I could not have a large display on the flight computer I would have a good vario (LX Nav V80/Butterfly/Clearnav) and an Oudie.

So an update...anyone flown using a Zeus? Paul Remde...any video of the Zeus coming?

My avionics shop has just installed the Zeus 2.8 in the front and back seat of my twin glider. I have bench checked it extensively and will be flying it within the week. Full report to follow.

At 19:44 11 March 2014, NG wrote:
My avionics shop has just installed the Zeus 2.8 in the front and
back seat
of my twin glider. I have bench checked it extensively and will be
flying
it within the week. Full report to follow.


I would expect the Zeus to be great. But personally I feel wary of
cutting a large hole in my instrument panel for any specific
instrument until standard cut-out sizes become accepted. For this
reason, I prefer a gooseneck mounted display for my moving map.
This approach enabled me to change from a Compaq to an Oudie
with very little work.

Andrew. I totally agree about cutting up one's panel. The Zeus 2.8 fits in a 80mm cutout. I replaced my GPS-NAV/LX-NAV/57mm Cambridge vario with the smaller Zeus and associated vario, with one 57mm left over to accomodate a transponder. I was concerned that the small display would be too small, but really it is no different than the LX7007/5000/4000 which I previously flew with since the mid 90s
(except that my eyes are quite a bit older now).