Tasman Variometer

Anyone have any experience yet with the Tasman V2000 vario ?

Dan

Save your money

Al

Flew an LS3a at Omarama with one such vario installed in it. Worked fine. Not at all complicated to use. Turn it on, adjust the volume, thats it. Does not have speed to fly, netto, etc. Just a fast audio.

Nice post Al. I love how you can slam a product without any reason or explanation.

Could you elaborate... Have you flown with one? Why didn't you like it?

I've never flown with one, but they look interesting.

Paul Remde

I would agree. Our club just bought one for our new L23. We wanted something simple to operate. The Tasman fit that bill yet is the most feature-rich (averager, low power requirement, most sensitive) of that class of variometer. No it's not a B50 or a 302 but we didn't want that for the glider. Later!

-Mark At 13:06 02 March 2002, Paul Remde wrote:

Flown with one. The one I flew with lagged badly compared to the Winter that was also in the plane. It was terrible as a climb instrument.

Nuff said .. save your money

Al

huge snip ...

Or your Money Back Bob?

Al someone or other...

'... And if you buy one, your satisfaction is guaranteed!

Or your Money Back Bob?'

Yes.

Bob Wander

Good.

I am glad to see a vendor standing behind their product.

Al

This was probably due to two factors. Improper installation and improper setting of response time.

An electronic vario should be the first vario on a TE system. If the winter was tied into the TE system ahead of the Tasman, the response of the Tasman would suffer. You can also, through the menus, adjust the response time of the vario. You probable had the response time set to long.

I have one of these varios I think it is great. The low audio tow is easy to hear and more pleasant than the high tone of the Ball audio I had in the plane. I really like the built in averager. It even has a built in volt meter, so you can see if it is time to change batteries before you take off.

This has become my primary vario. I highly recommend it.

Just like the XK10 averager supplied by CAIR in the UK.

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