Hello Tibor Teh idea is theoretically great, but...
As being on the both sides of the issue (both competition pilot and task setter) I'd think that organizers are quite a bit reluctant to "offer" the task for competitors electronically - mainly for the same reason that you had (being afraid of jeopardizing the day because of incorrect data as compared with the paper version of task, giving great opportunity to protests ;)). The organization is often very busy and errors are even more prone to happen than with the pilots (not to talk about changes on troublesome day). Of course, if SOME day we are having paperles competitions, then maybe... ;) hannu On 21.1.2011 23:48, Tibor Arpas wrote: > Hi, > > I finally got to setting up XCSoar and replying some of my flights. > > From the first look the application is amazing! Eg. I liked the task > editor a lot. I noticed some discussion about improving the task > editor even further. That would be cool but I would like to express my > wish. I would like the task editor to become unnecessary :-). Let me > explain how come. > > I almost never create the tasks I fly, I just follow what the > competition task setter prepared for us. Even if I do create a task I > use desktop computer to analyze weather forecast and actual use of > airspace before that. It would feel natural to enter the task to fly > using the same desktop computer and just transfer it to the mobile > device before flight. > > And my biggest problem is not actually laziness to enter the tasks on > the small screen. For me it's this constant little fear that I made a > mistake when entering the task and I will ruin my competition result > because of that. I think there is a bad day like that for at least one > person on every competition... Do you agree that getting the task > into the device electronically, from a reliable source would be a > great feature? > > Of course there is a couple of transfer technologies which would allow > this. Http over wifi, files over bluetooth, IR, SD cards come to > mind.. And lot more other considerations to make it a standard. > > The least amount of work and probably early testing/adoption could > come from simple XCSoar to XCSoar task sharing. One person could enter > the task into the (windows) XCSoar and the rest would simply transfer > it from there. Quickly check if it's correct and fly :-). > > I have a lot more thoughts about this but would like to read some > feedback first. How many XCSoar fellow users do you usually meet at a > competition? (who PDAs/PNAs with WIF?) > > Thanks, > Tibor > > P.S. > The only related thing quick googling revealed: > http://xcsoar.1045713.n5.nabble.com/Is-it-ok-to-define-Task-and-Task-Rules-from-PRF-file-instead-of-TSK-file-td2650648.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
