hawk

The more I fly with the LXNAV HAWK, the more I realise that I almost can't fly without it now. It has become an essential part of my decision-making process in flight, refining how I choose my climbs and ultimately making me a more efficient and effective pilot.

At the recent nationals, I lost count of the times I pulled up, hopeful of a climb, only for the HAWK to signal me: "No, don't bother." Time

I've been flying with LXNAV's new HAWK vario system. To explain really quickly, it isn't a Total Energy vario. It works like this: if you can model the performance of the glider, and you can keep track of the attitude and airspeed, then you know what the resulting flight path should be. Now watch what the real flight path is. The difference between the model and the reality is the movement of the

Ask G; "My variometer doesn't seem to work correctly.  How do I check the system?    Maybe the newest pressure transducer variometers with wind gust algorithms have better results?" 

Go back to basics for a moment: remember that a pilot should be able to discriminate between going up because he's in lift, and going up because he's pulled the stick back. That's the point of the Total energy