Hi all,

does XCSoar 6.1 calculate correctly how the wind affects overall glide 
performance of the glider, when it calculates required altitude to finish the 
task?

Why'm asking.... because about 2 weeks ago, I have been flying my final glide 
with the headwind and I noticed, that the Final Glide reserve altitude was 
decreasing during the cruise.
So it seemed that XCSoar compute the required altitude for the "normal" polar, 
but due to the headwind my L/D was smaller so I was loosing my altitude faster 
than XCSoar estimated and because of that the altitude reserve was decreasing. 
I have set MC value on approx. 2 - 2.5.

Did anybody noticed similar behavior?
Any idea, what was wrong?

Thanks,

        R.

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