On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Sascha Haffner <s_haff...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
10% of what? The final resulting arrival height?
This is not to do with rounding errors, it's due to an angular
approximation.
> 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).
>
Because LEFT/RIGHT now page through the display modes.
> to 5) yes in version 6.010 on my IPAQ3870 gestures could be enabled /
> disabled, not however in version 6.10.
>
Correct. We try to reduce the number of configuration options as there are
so many, it is daunting for many new users.
> 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
>
This feature was removed.
> 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 report with an igc log file to www.xcsoar.org/trac
Wind calculation has not changed since 6.0.10.
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