New Panel Help

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 5:57:54 PM UTC-4, wrote:
Hello All,
I am returning to the sport after a 30 year hiatus. I have recently purchased an SHK1, which I am refinishing/restoring. My goal is to use this ship to earn FAI badges, not to fly competitively. Given this information, and a limited budget, I am looking for opinions regarding instruments, GPS, Navigation and logger choices as well as their placement on the panel. The ship came with three mechanical variometers, a sage and two winters, an altimeter and an airspeed indicator. What would a good panel look like and comprise?
Thanks for any help.
Bill

So if I get a Cambridge 302 communicating with streak do I need the Cambridge 303, is it just a display?

Nano, easy, compact, a little Velcro is all you need.

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 4:57:54 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Hello All,
I am returning to the sport after a 30 year hiatus. I have recently purchased an SHK1, which I am refinishing/restoring. My goal is to use this ship to earn FAI badges, not to fly competitively. Given this information, and a limited budget, I am looking for opinions regarding instruments, GPS, Navigation and logger choices as well as their placement on the panel. The ship came with three mechanical variometers, a sage and two winters, an altimeter and an airspeed indicator. What would a good panel look like and comprise?
Thanks for any help.
Bill

If you're going to be flying in an area with a fair number of other gliders and those gliders mostly have FLARM, consider installing an IGC activated FLARM Core and linking it to an electronic vario/computer setup that connects to the FLARM and uses it as the GPS engine and logger. LX Navigation and LX Nav (and others) make instruments designed to work like this and the LX8080/V5/Flarmview 57 setup in my ASW-15 has worked extremely well. It did seem a bit over the top for the old girl though. Keep the Sage as the mechanical vario if you have the room in the panel for it, they're great.

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 2:57:54 PM UTC-7, wrote:
Hello All,
I am returning to the sport after a 30 year hiatus. I have recently purchased an SHK1, which I am refinishing/restoring. My goal is to use this ship to earn FAI badges, not to fly competitively. Given this information, and a limited budget, I am looking for opinions regarding instruments, GPS, Navigation and logger choices as well as their placement on the panel. The ship came with three mechanical variometers, a sage and two winters, an altimeter and an airspeed indicator. What would a good panel look like and comprise?
Thanks for any help.
Bill

Bill,

If you want to call and talk about panel update experiences please do. I have replaced panels in many glider with many different types of flight computers. Including Nano-V7-Oudie, PowerFlarm LXNAV LX9000, PowerFlarm- V7/V8/V80-ultimate le. Also tip on panel material and finishing.


Instructions for cutting exact 57mm & 80mm holes on this page:

http://www.craggyaero.com/ultimate_le_5_7.htm

Richard
www.craggyaero.com