You are just starting out as a pilot, or enjoy leisurely local flights. To fly safely and relaxed, you want to understand what the air around you is doing – in all directions. This is why, besides climb and altitude, you’re also interested in your horizontal movements and their influencing factors: Speed over ground, glide ratio and wind.
Then the Element Speed is the right vario for you.
Highlights
- Altimeter and Climb/Sink indication in the unique Flytec quality
- Speed over ground and current glide ratio
- Wind direction and wind speed
- Distance and direction to launch, and to the last thermal
- Vario profiles
Technical data
General
- Robust, shockproof ABS housing, matte black with green or red sides
- Keyboard with clearly detectable, glove-friendly keys
- High-contrast black-and-white screen
- Dimensions: 138 x 74 x 23 mm
- Weight: 178 g (including Batteries)
- Power supply: 2x AA-Batteries (Alkaline or NiMH accumulators)
- Battery life time: about 35 h
- Operating temperature: -10°C to 50°C
- Languages: English, German, French Italian, Spanish
Altimeter
- Units: m / ft
- QNH: air pressure indication in hPa or in Hg
- Range: 0 to 12'300 m - Resultion 1 m or 1 ft
- ALT 1: Absolute altitude
- ALT 2: Choice of absolute or relative altitude
- ALT 3: Altitude difference or altitude above ground (in preparation)
Variometer
- Units: m/s / fpm
- Graphic indication m/s: ±10 m/s - Resolution 0.2 m/s
- Graphic indication fpm: ±20 ft/min x 100 - Resolution 0.4 ft/min x 100
- Numeric indication m/s: ±300 m/s - Resolution 0.1 m/s
- Numeric indication fpm: ±300 ft/min x 100 - Resolution 0.1 ft/min x 100
- Integrator: selectable from 1 s to 30 s
Acoustics
- Volume: 4 levels
- Five predefined, individually adjustable vario profiles: weak / regular / strong thermals, ridge soaring, balloon
- Climb tone with selectable lower threshold, frequency and cadence modulation
- Near-thermal tone with selectable lower threshold and volume adjustment
- Sink tone with selectable upper threshold and volume adjustment
- Stall alarm (with optional airspeed sensor)
- Adjustments: Base frequency, modulation
GPS
- GPS-Receiver with 48 channels
- Position determination at 1 Hz
Navigation
- Units for distance: km / miles
- Units for speed: km/h / kts / mph
- Speed over ground
- Current glide ratio (L/D)
- Wind: direction (graphic, absolute), speed
- Last thermal (direction graphic and numeric, distance)
- Launch (direction graphic and numeric, distance)
Airspeed measurement (with optional sensor)
- Indication of speed relative to surrounding air
- Units: km/h / kts / mph
- Range: 0 km/h to 120 km/h - Resolution 1 km/h / 1 kt / 1 mph
- Calibration: ±50%