Broke Airline Pilot needs "stuff" for an ASW-15B

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:47:45 -0700, tangoeight wrote:

Note that for Sports Class (USA) regional level contests that a PDA
based logger is acceptable. Feed it with a cheap hand held GPS (used
Garmin 12xl or similar) and you can potentially have GPS Nav/logger for
a couple hundred bucks.

The ASW-15 panel is fairly small and has a very deep glare shield lip, so
using a blind GPS might be an attractive way to have a less cluttered
panel. As you'll be running XCSoar or equivalent on the PDA you're going
to put in all turnpoints etc. on the PDA and will never need to use the
controls on a GPS except to turn it on or off, so using a blind GPS and
putting it somewhere out of sight under the glare shield would make
sense.

Blind GPS units are just plastic blobs with a wire sticking out: no
controls at all. You can mount it on top of the panel instruments where
it can see out through the glare shield.

A Garmin GPS-35 or any of the current "hockey puck" blind GPS units would
work provided their input and output voltages are OK. You need one that
runs off 12v and whose output levels match the PDA, e.g. the GPS-35 HVS
model runs off 12v and outputs RS-232 signal levels, so its compatible
with almost any logger or PDA.


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