On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Sascha Haffner <s_haff...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for the great work. Today I had a chance to flight test the new
> 6.10 version and now I have a few questions regarding the new functions /
> features:
>
> 1) Could you please explain the interactions of the "arrival height display
> setting" and the "reach mode setting" and the value shown on the "final
> glide bar" (assuming arrival height 0, mc safety=mc manual, wind 0, goto
> mode)? In case where everything is set to straight line the arrival height
> and the final glide bar value are the same as expected. However once you
> set to turning or terrain avoid. differences occur (assuming terrain height
> unequal to 0).
>
Slight differences will occur due to approximations used in the arrival
height display.
> 2) Same as above, but now with wind unequal to 0. Here the final glide bar
> shows a lower value than the arrival height display. That I don't
> understand, since I also expected the values to be equal (straigth line).
> Could you explain this too please?
>
> 3) How to turn off the thermal profile (blue blob above the glide bar)?
>
Can't, but it will be available to turn off in the next version.
> 4) With my IPAQ 3870 I used to be able to "drop markers" by pressing left
> on the central button. It doesn't work any more (used to work in 6.09)?
>
> 5) How to turn off / on gestures?
>
In the configuration (setup) dialog: "enable gestures"
> 6) How to turn off / on safety lock?
>
What safety lock?
>
> 7) Could you please share your experience with the wind calculation (my
> setting: circling, since I get the gps from flarm with no air speed data)?
> It seemed, that in comparison to my LX7000 (wind: comb - zigzag and
> circling) the values differed quite a lot and more than in the past during
> circling. However it could also been caused by the many wind shifts due to
> nearby thunderstorms and therefore I am not entirely sure.
>
> Sorry for the many questions - I love XCSoar and use it since version 4.2.
> and I just like to be able to explain the behavior of the glide calculator
> in order to estimate the impact of the many input parameters.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Cheers
> Sascha
>
>
>
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