Which vario?

[David perry 1]

I'm looking at the hyper flight vario offering but at 180 quid I could almost replace my fifteen year old ff9 with new taranis gear and vario.

What varios do people use these days? I asked a similar question a year ago but the lack of response makes me wonder whether people use varios at all

Thanks
David

[Ernie]

Please sir, what is a vario?

ernie

[David perry 1]

Variometer.

.indicates upiness and downiness in a glider.

D

[Ernie]

thanks David, is upiness apiness?

ernie

[Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator]

And most can tell you your altitude above a start position as well.

David - have posted this info in your other thread, along with a discussion on the merits (as I see them anyway!) of the various actual and expected FrSky Tx's.

BEB

[John Privett]

I've got the FrSky 'normal' precision vario mentioned on the Taranis thread in one of my gliders. For me it does exactly what I want from it and at £12 is a bargain! I'm not sure how much better the 'high' precision one is, but even that's only another £8 or so extra!

I set mine up on a three-position switch on the Taranis. Centre is off, up gives a spoken altitude above the launch point (repeated every 30 seconds) and down gives the 'beep, beep, beep' up/down tones - earpiece recommended to avoid driving your fellow-flyers nuts!

[Frank Skilbeck]

Go to an aerotow meeting and you'll see (hear ) lots of varios in use to assist in keeping in those elusive thermals.

I use the Multiplex system with MPX, SM Modelbau and Aerobtec Altis sensors and have recently made some using an arduinio board and program from Open Sensor