Hi John,
thanks for the speedy reply...
To your answers:
to 1) ok I understand
to 2) still unresolved - the difference between final glide bar and arrival
height displayed next to the landing field under the influence of wind are more
than 10% and therefore are unlikely to be caused by rounding errors.
to 3) ok great
to 4) why doesn't the drop marker function work anymore by pressing left key in
6.10 (worked in 6.010).
to 5) yes in version 6.010 on my IPAQ3870 gestures could be enabled / disabled,
not however in version 6.10.
to 6) in version 6.010 one could lock the system settings during flight by
enabling the safety lock feature, preventing an accidental change of key
parameters during flight
to 7) circling wind calculation definetly seem to be buggy. In previous
versions
i.e. 6.010 the values were never so far off in comparison the my onboard LX7000.
Please note all my observations apply to the PPC2000 version running on
IPAQ3870.
Again thanks a lot for looking into it... let me know if I can help / run tests
/ provide more information etc.
Cheers,
Sascha
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Von: John Wharington <jwharing...@gmail.com>
An: Sascha Haffner <s_haff...@yahoo.com>
CC: xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Gesendet: Montag, den 23. Mai 2011, 12:09:56 Uhr
Betreff: Re: [Xcsoar-user] Vers. 6.10 - Flight experience & questions?
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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