New Butterfly Vario

On Jan 26, 12:14*pm, wrote:
It will be worth informing your customers that fly in US sanctioned
contests that this instrument, as described, will not
be legal for use in US contests due to the incorporation of the
artificial horizon.
UH

Early reports on this unit indicated the horizon can be disabled.
Don't know the means or whether such disabling would be considered
equivalent to having a conventional mechanical gyro instrument removed
from the glider. It seems the designers did consider the need though.


Andy

On Jan 26, 3:01*pm, Andy wrote:
On Jan 26, 12:14*pm, wrote:

It will be worth informing your customers that fly in US sanctioned
contests that this instrument, as described, will not
be legal for use in US contests due to the incorporation of the
artificial horizon.
UH

Early reports on this unit indicated the horizon can be disabled.
Don't know the means or whether such disabling would be considered
equivalent to having a conventional mechanical gyro instrument removed
from the glider. *It seems the designers did consider the need though.

Andy

It will remain to be seen as to how it is disabled and how this is
confirmed so enforcement isn't a PITA.
UH

Im debating this and the V7. Maybe even the clearNAV. With Flarm, nano and the butterfly vario I would have 3 certified loggers in my glider...so it feels a little overkill and very expensive. For another 1500 you can have an LX8000. Not sure if that $3300 price is going to fly. The V7 seems best at the moment.

On Jan 26, 2:26*pm, Sean Fidler wrote:
Im debating this and the V7. *Maybe even the clearNAV. *With Flarm, nano and the butterfly vario I would have 3 certified loggers in my glider....so it feels a little overkill and very expensive. *For another 1500 you can have an LX8000. *Not sure if that $3300 price is going to fly. *The V7 seems best at the moment.

and with Flarm, Nano, and Butterfly you still would need something
additional if you like a moving map. I'm thinking that someday when
my glider fund gets fat enough my Oudie and Nano coupled with the V7
should be a neat setup.

Butterfly would be sweet if you wanted to get into cloud flying. Add
a turn coordinator for a full IFR panel.