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  1. Apologies if my reply to Ron unintentionally offended, I should not have made a sweeping generalisation about a huge country like the US.

    I spent time in Toronto, and Calgary in Canada, and in Los Angeles in the US. I was even in LA during the race riots in 1992 and obviously the availability of firearms and crime is an issue. Given a perceived insult from Ron about Canada, I made a sweeping generalisation about the US in Canada's defence which was unfair. Apologies.

  2. RonD1120


    Where in the world today is this concept working? I can only think of China, maybe. However, I do not think the people have the power.

    Is it working in Canada?

    I have very little knowledge regarding life in Canada. All I know is that Canadians come to America to satisfy their needs, wants and desires. That is my opinion based on my experiences living in FL. I think you even once mentioned that you are a truck driver in America to earn a living.



    Um, what? You seem to have very little knowledge of life outside the US in general. China and liberalism? What are you smoking?

    I've lived both in the US and Canada, and in my opinion life in Canada is far, far better than in the US.

  3. Did you even read the article? In the same article:

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    Published in 2016, the report found families do play roles that can either increase or decrease violence. It did not, however, find support for "harsh" parenting, which is viewed as a risk factor.

  5. Given that I was born in a country under dictatorship at the time, yes I agree people can live just fine without free speech.

    Free speech is not a requirement for "living just fine" (which can be interpreted in many, many ways) it's a requirement for a democracy. Dictionary definition of democracy. Was my phrasing unclear?

  6. Hooknswoop


    My favorite anti-gun argument is, "Why do you need a ____________?" Imagine if I asked you why you need the right to free speech? If you cannot justify needing that right, then we should take it away.



    Free speech is a requirement for democracy. Democracy, by definition, is choosing government and leaders through a vote. If there is no free speech, then voting (a form of speech) against the current government can be disallowed. Therefore if that right is taken away, it ceases to be a democracy. Would you like to discuss another item in the Bill of Rights?

    So why do you need a gun?

  8. EvilGenius

    Apparently the Dekunu One will have a GPS update frequency between 10 & 18 Hz depending on the settings.



    Technically, the GPS module in X2 can have an update frequency of up to 18 Hz too, but I see little benefit in using the maximum frequency. What would have been nice is L5-band GPS, but the signal has just been made available and there aren't any chips out for that yet :)

  9. Quote

    If you don't mind me asking, what is the GPS update frequency on the X2? I've had good results with the old flysight revision at 5hz using Dan's gswoop software.



    The X2 can support up to 10Hz GPS update frequency, but it will dynamically change the update frequency to optimise battery life. Most of the time it will use 1Hz update frequency.

    And agreed, we're quite glad there's a lot of competition in the market - the main winner will be the skydiving consumer! ;)

    And I'm not sure what the features of the new Flysight will be but it looks like Bluetooth will be a core feature.

  10. Although X2 will be extremely versatile, it will be more like a swiss army knife designed to do a lot of things, but there is an advantage to doing only one thing and doing it well.

    So X2 will be able to do basic swoop analysis, but a dedicated device like the Flysight will have higher sampling rates and better accuracy. In fact, we at AON2 have been coordinating with Flysight on the development of the X2 and the Flysight 2 with the aim of making them compatible :)

  12. When it first came out their T&C's had something about "You cannot resell this altimeter without approval of Dekunu" and "Transfer of ownership...may incur an administration fee" however in the current terms it's now gone. They can change the terms and conditions without notice, so maybe keep checking as they might become more favourable if you want to buy it. However, it could go the other way without notice too...

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    And my comment was not a slam on either manufacturer - just saying wait and see how the released products end up before asking for an opinion on them.



    No worries, it wasn't taken as such. I completely agree.

  14. Hi Max!

    What skytribe said makes sense. It's too early to tell how either will perform. I do have some idea about the X2 since I'm involved in the development but I'm biased of course :)
    I do have to say though, AON2 will never sell users' data to a third party, nor restrict a device to a particular user, and we'll give users as much control over their device and their data as much as possible. We definitely have to comply with UK and EU rules about data protection (not sure if there's an equivalent in Australia), but the basic premise is your device, your data.

    We make our revenue on hardware sales, so it would be rather silly to alienate our customers with draconian data policies. Our business model does not involve selling or monetising data whatsoever.

    Other companies, such as Facebook do, whether it's right or wrong is probably off-topic for this discussion. Simply, it just isn't our business model. Hope this clarifies things. :)

  15. Agree with points above, humans produce nowhere near the energy needed to maintain level flight, much less climb.

    Additionally, birds/insects/bats don't just flap their wings up and down - they flap them in a figure-8 motion, rotating the tips on both the upward and downward stroke. Just flapping something up and down will produce zero lift.

    This looks like a strange wing with a low aspect ratio, so L/D ratio would also be not very good.

  16. yuri_base


    The main emphasis will be made not on traditional visual use in skydiving freefall (since today's screens are still quite poor in direct sun), but on things that smart devices can give to us that "dumb" altimeters can't - taptic and audible feedback, useful features on a ride to altitude in skydiving or mountain hike in BASE, data recording and analysis, and so on.

    I am all ears listening to your wishes. Let's go! :)



    Yuri, I'm Arthur from AON2 Ltd. We think we've solved the screen problem in direct sun issue, do you want to get involved with the development of our X2 flight computer? PM me your details and we can talk :)
    X2 will have GPS, 9-axis IMU and barometric pressure sensor, as well as Bluetooth Low energy to communicate with a smartphone: www.aon2.co.uk/x2

  18. brainpoo2002

    Thanks everyone. I decided to get a Cookie since I already tried one on and it fit so well. Have to buy things one piece at a time to continue affording jumps, so audible will have to wait. I do fine with my dz's analogs. i just want audible for backup.

    I checked out the brilliant pebbles. Seems like a cool, affordable route, but it doesn't work with iPhone so i can't use it right now. Will continue to check back though. Would like to know more about the upcoming digital when info is available...price, specs and so forth.

    Thanks again



    Your case is exactly why we designed Brilliant Pebbles! At least the wait will be shorter if the audible is cheaper, right? :)
    You can use it with any laptop (Mac, Windows or Linux) but unfortunately we can't use the iPhone's USB port because of Apple policy, not because of any technical difficulties.

    Good choice on the helmet!

  19. I love my cookie G3, and if you're into tunnel flying or freeflying, just look at all the competition level flyers, they're all wearing G3s.

    For audibles, my company makes the cheapest audible on the market, Brilliant Pebbles: www.aon2.co.uk/brilliant_pebbles

    I can vouch that it works well with a G3 because that's what I jump ;) It also works with Phantom and Kiss helmets.

    By the way, we're now working on an extremely advanced digital altimeter called X2, although it will only be released towards end of the year or possibly start of 2018. :)

  20. Thanks for everyone's feedback!

    We've actually released a minor update now, which improves the temperature compensation code making it more accurate and resistant to the very slow drift in sensor readings due to temperature changes. I highly suggest all users to update to the latest firmware.

    As of now you can only update the firmware using a PC or laptop app, the android app doesn't have the ability to update the firmware yet (we're working on it).

    We're hoping to release the option to turn climb beeps off soon, this feature is now under testing as we want to make sure people can update smoothly. :)

  21. I don't think I've said that we don't see value in any of the features mentioned in this thread...could you be more specific?

    We're currently working on hard deck alarms, adding an option to turn off the climb beeps, and the app showing last battery level among others.

    There's actually nothing stopping anyone from reprogramming the audible with their own firmware, all that's needed is the AVR109 protocol. Connecting it to a PC shows as a USB-CDC device, and connecting and disconnecting at 1200 baud will kick it into bootloader mode. The microcontroller is an AVR Atmega32u4.

  22. Thanks Max and Craig!

    I haven't had much time to check this thread as I had a lot of work shipping audibles and improving the software - our app now works in several locales and is improving every day :)

    I'll try to check this every week or so, but if anyone wants to ask anything urgent just drop me an email at [email protected].

  23. lyosha

    ***We've now started testing new features - canopy speed detection!

    We've also released a new version of the app which can update the device firmware, so when we've finished testing these new features it will be an automatic notification of the update.:)



    Any way you'd be willing to open source the code and/or allow guest developers?

    There's a few of us here that know how to write some code and are interested in contributing to such a project...

    Hi Iyosha,

    Thanks for your interest! What sort of involvement did you have in mind?

  24. Hi degeneration,

    As Craig has said, you can set up to 20 alarms each accurate to 1 metre - try that with a Pro-track or Optima.

    You can also set altitudes up to 29,999 feet (the Pro-track maxes out at 9900, the Pro-track 2 which is £275 maxes out at 19900).

    Many people who bought one are raving about how easy it is to use. Our target market was recently-qualified skydivers, as we want to make audibles more accessible to people who don't have them yet.

    Obviously you have several audibles already, and don't seem to be our target market, so I hope you don't take offence if we don't spend much effort trying to sell it to you :)
    However, our plan is to start adding higher-end features to it such as canopy speed detection and some jump logging, with a much better software interface.

    But we will not do that at the cost of our original mission which was to make audibles more affordable to skydivers. The more affordable skydiving is, the more people will do it, everybody wins :)

  25. We've now started testing new features - canopy speed detection!

    We've also released a new version of the app which can update the device firmware, so when we've finished testing these new features it will be an automatic notification of the update.:)