Thanks Max, I will open a ticket but since this is a serious bug (which almost 
caused me to land out) I am reporting it here as well..

Thanks,

Ramy

On Nov 21, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote:

> On 2011/11/21 13:32, Ramy Yanetz <ryan...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I haven't tried 6.2.3 yet but I flew with 6.2.2 last saturday (running on my 
>> Streak connected to 302) and something is very wrong with all arrival 
>> altitude calculations in waypoint info and info boxes when combining bug 
>> factor, Headwind and MC >0. Once arrival altitude turned negative it 
>> immediately dropped by 5000 feet or more to something completely wrong. 
>> Sometime it will stuck on zero. If I changed MC to zero it usually fixes it. 
>> I can recreate it anytime I replay my flight. The issue gets worse the 
>> higher the headwind, MC and bug factor. In my example MC=0.5, bug factor= 
>> 67% and head wind = 12 knots. No task set, so next waypoint was home all the 
>> time. Arrival altitude (altitude difference) was correct until turned 
>> negative with the head wind component, then it dropped from zero to -6000 
>> feet in couple of minutes! I even saw a message that I will arrive after 
>> sunset although the waypoint was only 20 miles away and there was at least 3 
>> hours to sunset.  Please note that the zero MC calculation was correc
>> t in the waypoint info all the time, only the current MC and safety MC ( if 
>> greater than zero) are completely off when turning negative with polar 
>> degradation and significant headwind >10 knots or so. 
> 
> Please use our bug tracker.  Bug reports on the mailing list or bug
> reports directed personally at developers will get lost.
> 
> Max

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