That's a very good approach, Max. It would be more intuitive and probably also more accurate. It would also eliminate the need of creating different polars for different pilots.
Usually there are polars available for a given glider at a given mass including an average pilot or something. Only in few cases have I seen max and min load polars. XCSoar would then have to do the shifting of the polar based on the mass given in a polar file, finding the difference to the actual empty mass and then add pilot and water, I suppose. It would be good, if readily available polar files could still be used, with XCSoar doing this math internally. While we're at it: We also have bugs in percent. What would a 100% bugged glider look like? Martin --- Am 05.01.2011 um 12:56 schrieb Max Kellermann: > What I never understood is why we enter the ballast in percent. The > water containers I carry to my glider are labeled with "litres", not > "percent". > > I'd like XCSoar to know the empty weight of my glider, and allow me to > enter additional mass added to that (my own body mass, ballast, > oxygen, fuel). No special polar for solo flights in a double-seated > glider. > > Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
