iGlide

On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 10:57:58 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
... I just flew my new Stemme from Laredo, TX to
Payson, AZ

Hey Guys! He has a new Stemme! (Congrats Dan. I hope you have lots of fun in it.)

New to me, but only 80 hours on the airframe when I bought it. I now
have it registered and licensed and waiting to hear from US Customs if
there's some kind of inspection I need to have done since I had it
brought in from Mexico. I have a one-day window (Sunday) due to the
high spring time winds in New Mexico, to bring it home.

On 3/24/2016 9:06 PM, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 10:57:58 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
... I just flew my new Stemme from Laredo, TX to
Payson, AZ
Hey Guys! He has a new Stemme! (Congrats Dan. I hope you have lots of fun in it.)

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Dan, 5J

On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 10:36:27 AM UTC-7, runner4065 wrote:
Is there any value to iGlide (iOS app) if you don't have their sensor / vario hardware? What features remain?

All of the features remain, except:

Instantaneous wind provided by the Vario
Flarm (and ADSB) target display
Thermal assistant using instantaneous wind

I think everything else works. On a 6 series phone you have barometric altitude as well as GPS altitude in the phone. The GPS in the phone is pretty much as good as all the others in the glider. If you add the Air Connect from Air Avionics, you can stream vario and Flarm data from a C 302 or whatever.

I have been flying with the Vario and iPhone for 2 years, an iPhone 6+ last year as my primary flight display. For awhile I had occasional problems with it disconnecting from the Vario WiFi server. When it does so, it falls back on the internal iPhone GPS and barograph. It often took me the better part of an hour to notice, so yeah, it works pretty well. I had to put up a navbox showing GPS source so I could catch it.