On 1 Oct, Ian McPhee wrote: > I believe the plan within gliding in Oz is to use more airfields/airstrips > as turnpoints rather than the silos which were needed for the photo days. > Unfortunately comp organizers tend not to put the field elevation in > official downloadable data bases so we do not get the benefit of full > capabilities of our systems. Both the older Cambridge LNAV GPS-NAV system > and the new 302/303 and many other systems work real easy for glide to > landing place if it is in the official data base contains landing place > elevation.
Indeed they do. Alice's Cambridge system is really good this way. Provided you tag a point as 'landable', three (or is it 4) screens right of the main screen you will find a list of all landable points, listed in order of closeness to the current position. As for putting the correct elevaltion in, I too have found the lack of elevation a problem. The easy (and approximately accurate) way I fix this is to get this data out of SeeYou. I also go through and add the airfields in the comp area, even if they are not in the TP database> For the next QSA Easter comp, the elevations will be in the TPs for that - as Brian Wade and I are organising it (its at Chinchilla btw). -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strategic IT & open source consulting +61 (0)438 385 533 Brisbane, Australia http://www.interweft.com.au -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
