Hi Stefan, If your finish cylinder is only a few hundred metres above ground then one can assume you intend to land at or close to that destination. One also concludes that the finish cylinder is going to have a small radius. Therefore a glide calculated to the centre and a safety height equal to the height you wish to enter the finish cylinder should be close enough and leave a little margin.
If there is a requirement as in US contests where one must cross the outer boundary of the finish cylinder above a minimum height, finishing a little high or burning off a little extra height a few kilometres out leads to far less penalty points than failing to make the precise glide calculated to bring you into the finish cylinder at the optimum height. This approach works with or without a minimum height requirement. Adjusting the safety height to your level of comfort in theory will get you the results you want, however in practice a little extra comfort height will result in more successful finishes. Regards, Andy Gough I have a short question about the final-glide to a finish Cylinder. Mostly (the only definition i know), the Cylinder is defined by a TP (a few hundred meters above ground) and a Cylinder-radius. What is now the finish for the final-glide calculation? The center or the border of the Cylinder? If the calculations are going to the center, i will be higher than the minimal height for entering the Cylinder. Should i make a Feature-request? (i duno if it is already implemented, or not) -- View this message in context: http://xcsoar.1045713.n5.nabble.com/Final-glide-calculations-to-a-finish-Cylinder-tp4798752p4804520.html Sent from the xcsoar-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerry® mobile platform with sessions, labs & more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerry® DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user