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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Robert Hart                                  ha...@interweft.com.au
+61 (0)438 385 533                           http://www.hart.wattle.id.au


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