Moin, I do currently use iGlide, which does have a very similar wind calculation but does not require zig-zagging. My compass is somewhat accurate to less than 5° deviation after I spent some time carefully compensating it. At least in my case it appears to work fine. I usually use the circling calculation, but it gets confused when flying cloud streets with a typically very inhomogenous pattern of circling, scanning and some dolphin style. In these cases, I run the cruise wind calculation to get a new wind vector.
We have a club glider where the compass is known to be notoriously inaccurate and withstands all attempts to improve the situation so far, because even the vario sound volume affects it. In that ship, this kind of algorithm is a complete waste of time and any old school estimate is way better. Viele Grüße, Martin Kopplow --- Am 23.05.2011 um 17:54 schrieb "r...@raspberryridgesheepfarm.com" <r...@raspberryridgesheepfarm.com>: > The only problem I have with the True wind algorithm is that it requires a > compass that is somewhat accurate. What is your experience with the compass > requirement? > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
