I have an interesting use case for inserting a (free new) turnpoint into a task from map. This season we regularly flew competitions in two airspace sectors. One of them had a ceiling of 11000 feet and the other one 8000 feet. Now flying and climbing in the high sector when on the way to the low sector is a little tricky. The pilots had to regularly leave thermals before reaching 11000 because on the border of the sectors you absolutely have to be under 8000. Any height you have to burn flying on the redline or with spoilers open is excesive height you should have avoided to gain (and save time instead).
The computer aided solution for this is to guess a crossing of your path and the border of the sectors. Split the corresponding leg of the task into two by inserting an artificial turnpoint at this crossing. If the altitude of the turnpoint is 0 you can check the estimated arrival height on the way to the border and interrupt climbing anytime you see your altitude is becoming too high. Or does XCSoar have any other mechanism to tell you about this situation? An airspace warning in advance would be nice... Tibor On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 02:33, Scott Penrose <sco...@dd.com.au> wrote: > > On 25/08/2011, at 10:23 AM, Rob Dunning wrote: > > make it quick and intuitive > > One of the hardest things here is that quick and intuitive are not always > aligned. The interface that is obvious and intuitive to use is often the > slowest. This doesn't matter if you are taking money out of the ATM, where > intuitive is more important than quick. > It is like the command line, harder to learn, but faster to use. Try > teaching someone new to manage their files with bash vs > Finder/FileManager/Nautilus. Yet I can manage my files through bast heaps > quicker. > Where does that leave XCSoar - in a bit of a tricky position. We want it to > be intuitive and easy to use, but we also want it to be fast. > What it also says though, is that there is no substitution for learning what > ever the interface is, with lots of practice, on the ground. Because you > will have to change it in flight one day. > I know - we need voice commands :-) "Computer… optimise turn points for > current weather conditions for maximum OLC points" > * http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html - fun read by Neil Stephenson > * http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000619.htm - excellent comparison of > CLI to GUI > Scooter > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K > The only unified storage solution that offers unified management > Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. > Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
