I am also experiencing more crashes with the 6.x series on my iPaq HX4700
ranging from complete system lock up to just exiting from XCSoar to the OS.
The crashes seem intermittent, and I can't isolate what the issue is. My
next flights I will revert to 5.x series to see if the crashes persist.
Luke
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Simon Marko <simon.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI Adrien and List: I have had crashes also on my Binatone Z350 PNA when
> adding the start point of a task.
> Tried both WM5 and PPC2003 versions, they crash at the same action.
>
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Adrien Ott <adrien....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> also had a chance to fly with v6.1 today on an iPaq 1950 with WM5.
>> It crashed twice:
>> - once when invoking NAV button, in fact XCSoar has just quit
>> - once while showing airspace warning, ack worked fine before but this
>> time it froze, I had to "hard" (?) reboot it the PDA.
>> Now I have 3 flight logs... !
>> I can not see a software log, is there one, in order to help understand
>> what happened?
>>
>> By the way, it was very nice to use.
>>
>> Adrien
>>
>> 2011/5/22 Sascha Haffner <s_haff...@yahoo.com>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> some more flight testing before the thunderstorms moved in today....
>>>
>>> As already mentioned in point 7) below, there seems definitely some bug
>>> with the wind calculation in "circling mode" using an IPAQ 3780 (PPC 2000).
>>> We had pretty a pretty constant wind of approx. 20-25km/h from the west /
>>> south west. The LX7000 confirmed this, while XCSoar calculated max. 8 km/h
>>> from the south.
>>>
>>> Consequently the final glide calculation from XCSoar was 150-200m higher
>>> in comparison to the LX7000, although MC on the 7000 was set only to 0,5 and
>>> in XCSoar at 1,0.
>>> Could you please look into that and share your experience...
>>>
>>> As I remember, I didn't have this problem with neither version 6.09 or
>>> 6.010 on the IPAQ.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sascha
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *Von:* Sascha Haffner <s_haff...@yahoo.com>
>>> *An:* xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>>> *Gesendet:* Samstag, den 21. Mai 2011, 21:50:04 Uhr
>>> *Betreff:* [Xcsoar-user] Vers. 6.10 - Flight experience & questions?
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>> 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)?
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 6) How to turn off / on 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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