Butterfly Vario (Airglide S with Sensor Unit)

The newly conceived design concept integrates a 57mm large display into a standard device.The unit is in contrast to conventional 57mm instruments from the front mounted in the slot.The device is only very slightly larger than a standard instrument includes screws. It cfits in tight cockpits installs easily.

The 2.7-inch color display conveys ALL the info you’d normally get from the rest of your intruments. The display has incredible contrast  and is similar to printed paper even in bright sunlight! By dispensing with mechanical pointer is the unit more reliable, easier to read and flexible in its presentation.

This new Vario combines navigation , Butterfly FLARM ® display and many other features with a beautiful variometer based on latest technologies and new methods of measurement. It communicates with a moving map systems and can be easily integrated into existing cockpits.

Designed by Sam Gisiger, the brains behind the Altair, this instrument is the result of enormous R & D.

A new generation variometer

Through a combination of 14 sensors, the air mass movement is determined by the aircraft in real time. Regardless of the flight conditions the pilot is updated several times a second wind and air mass data.

Huge display, standard housing

The newly conceived design concept integrates a very large display (2.7 “display) in a small 57mm standard device that is mounted into the front of the instrument panel is. The perfectly readable display has enormous contrast, similar to printed paper. It can be read perfectly and makes mechanical pointers unnecessary.

Features plus more!

The Butterfly Vario has

• vario / speed to fly
• simple backup navigation
• final glide calculator
• digital compass
• Butterfly FLARM ® radar with FLARM ®-language edition
• Voice alarms
• A complete artificial horizon
• An altimeter,
• plus…….. a full IGC logger and many other specific functions that make flying easier.