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Unique Display

The B2000 symbolic display was designed to answer your primary questions:

• Where do I need to go?
• How does that relate to where I am now going?
• Do I have the altitude to get there at some desired height above the ground?
• What is the wind in relation to my current track?
• What is the wind in relation to my track to the next turnpoint?
• Has the wind changed recently?
• Can I reach a suitable landing option?

When climbing the display changes and the cruise wind data is replaced by a bar graph display showing flight average, current thermal average and 20 second average, all against the Macready setting. Without reading numbers you can tell if a thermal is worthwhile compared to the whole flight so far, if it is weakening or strengthening and how the Macready setting relates to all this. This answers the main question while climbing - is this thermal a good one or should I leave it? Bars rising left-to-right is good (stay with it), descending is bad (time to leave). Simultaneously, the display shows direction to turnpoint, wind direction, glide slope, etc.

Added to a B50 Super Vario and the B2000 performs all soaring navigation, glide calculations and meteorological functions, displaying them on a simple graphical display requiring minimum pilot workload to interpret.

Previous flight computers displayed much data in alphanumerically, requiring too much mental effort to derive meaning and make critical decisions. Some have featured moving map displays that were suited to IFR navigation in powered aircraft but not the task at hand in a soaring aircraft. Most have required excessive pilot interaction in a feedback loop with the instrument. Obviously this is not ideal. It results in less time to look outside the cockpit.

As much as possible, the B2000 is operated open loop. The standard remote controller can be mounted where it falls easily to hand. Macready, bugs and ballast settings are automatically transferred from the B50. A pilot quickly learns how many clicks left or right from the main display will call up in flight statistics, task planning, moving map or landing site displays. The pilot can look outside while doing this and find it there when he next scans the panel.

Wind Computer

• Real time wind component.
• Wind vector calculated simultaneously from circling drift and zig-zag wind.
• Zig -zag wind calculations provide faster updates while thermalling, while making track changes in cruising flight and while ridge soaring.
• Wind change alert in cruise.
• Wind shear indicator while climbing.

Flight Recorder

• IGC format flight recorder built-in.
• GPS altitude only, no pressure altitude.

Operational Features

• Mark a position, decide to fly to it some time later then return to task navigation all without interacting with the screen.
• One button push alternates between a selected landing option and the task.
• Continuous automatic in flight progress statistics.
• Predicted time to finish based on achieved rate of climb in flight.
• Simple task programming/editing for pilot option tasks.
• Turnpoint rounding is automatic (fixed tasks) or manual (area type tasks).
• Simultaneous final glide around next and remaining turnpoints.
• Glideslope display like professional aviation instruments (slope bar moves, glider symbol fixed) plus numerical altitude surplus/deficit.
• Simple direct-to mode - allows temporary off task flying without disrupting task statistics.
• Moving map mode with observation zones, task tracks and airspace boundaries.

Physical Features

• Panel mounted LCD display.
• Wide temperature range.
• Temperature compensated.
• High contrast display easily visible under any glider cockpit lighting conditions.
• Low power - only 50mA at 12 volts.
• No batteries, memory backup by supercap.
• Compact - fits 80mm panel hole, only 45mm deep behind panel plus DB9 connector.
• Standard remote controller. No difficult to use touch screens.
• IGC format flight recorder built-in. GPS altitude only, no pressure altitude.
• DB9 connector for easy database/program uploads and logger downloads.
• Uses standard straight through serial cable to PC.

Manual (requires Adobe Reader)

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