Sorry, but if this is not a bug this is absurd. Why i can not climb at MC zero?? Not everybody fly according to MC theory. Especially not in the western US where you don't want to get below the mountains if you can. As such my 302 MC setting is usually low zero or 1, occasionaly 2 . But xcsoar automatically picks up my MC setting and as a result dropped my arrival altitude by 5000 feet? Besides, if i increase my MC to 3 or 4 it shows that i will arrive something like 15000 feet below glide, and i am at 4000 feet only 20 miles away! This should not drop my arrival altitude by more than 500-1000 feet, but it dropped more than 5000 feet, which was the equivalent of a paraglider performance. I flew over 10 years with WinPilot and never seen such behavior. I sure hope this is a bug otherwise I cant imagine how this would be acceptable... Can any xcsoar developer confirm if this is a bug or not before I am spending more time investigating it?
Ramy On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:58 PM, John Wharington <jwharing...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is not a bug. > > At MC=0, you cannot climb, so the value reported (-500 feet) indicates > you magically need to gain 500 feet in order to glide at MC=0. > > At MC=0.5, you are telling the computer you can climb, and with that > headwind and a slow climb rate (0.5), you need to climb a lot more. > In this case, the 500 feet isnt obtained magically, and so the height > required takes the downwind drift from circling into account. > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Ramy Yanetz <ryan...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Arrival altitude was at MC =0 was something like -500 feet (500 feet below >> glide) which was correct. However, With MC=0.5 it was -6000 feet!!! This is >> obviously a bug since the slight increase in MC will never result in 5000 >> feet loss. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
