MFW April 2013 | Page 15

The screen shot at left shows; In the top box - All the flights in memory In the large Box - Details of the selected flight. Over this can be selected to be viewed data for vario, speed, voltage, temperature and GPS altitude, each quite interesting except the GPS altitude data which was rather inaccurate. Within the program is easy to determine climb and sink rates by clicking and dragging. This could be very useful for trying different combinations of model setup. The GPS data can be exported to google earth. This proved very interesting. Max distance away only being 5-600M on several flights - it seemed much further. Altitude is colour coded which makes for interesting viewing in the 3D mode of google earth. Pros; Light weight, easy install of unit and software, very accurate. GPS Data very interesting, Motor can be restarted - to save model Cons; A couple of times the models motor stopped prematurely - I don't know if that was the unit or ESC low voltage cut off. Motor can be restarted - knowing this fliers might take on more risk.