On 07/01/11 11:51, Robert Hart wrote: > On 06/01/11 22:29, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 21:37 +1000, Robert Hart wrote: >>> Well I made up a trial Nimbus2c.plr file, which basically just changes >>> the water ballast to 230 litres and loaded it. However, when I then go >>> to flight configuration, I still get only the 159litres for the default >>> Nimbus 2 set up. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >> Any glider polar you select via 'Polar type' is built-in to XCSoar. >> >> You select a custom polar file by changing 'Polar type' to "Winpilot >> file" and then selecting the file (Nimbus2c.plr) in the 'Polar file' >> box. This is how you select a custom polar in 5.2.4, so I assume it is >> how 6.x works as well. >> > Well - that had me stymied for a minute - there's no "winpilot file" in > the available list! However, there is hidden away "External Polar File" > - and that works fine. > > However, when I do that, the wing loading disappears in the "flight > setup" screen. Why is that? > Answering my own question I can see that this is because the winpilot file doesn't include wing area - and an extension to cover this has been proposed.
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