📟 Buying guide: Choosing the right flight instrument

Depending on your level and your practice, different types of instruments are available to you.

  1. Types of instruments
  • Sound Vario: light, simple (Stodeus, SYS'One)
  • Vario + alti (screen): progress (SYS'Alti)
  • Alti + GPS: cross, thermal (Flymaster, Syride)
  • Connected: competition, advanced navigation
  1. Main brands
  • Syride: simple, flexible cockpit
  • Flymaster: configurable screen, full GPS
  • Stodeus: ultra-light, solar
  1. Selection criteria
    Weight, autonomy, mounting (cockpit/elevator), integrated GPS or not.

Tip: A simple vario that is used well is better than a poorly mastered GPS.

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