Hi Tobias, Yes, strictly speaking you are right about height required approaching infinity as Mc approaches zero.
I think Simon's suggestion is worth considering though; it does add a little complexity to the display but to me it appears like it could be intuitive enough (further, it's relatively consistent with our colour patterns). On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Tobias Bieniek <tobias.bien...@gmx.de> wrote: > I think Martin Kopplow did a good job summarizing the whole issue. It > is actually what I meant earlier by supplying the engine with both > numbers for internal calculation. It should be intuitive to use > without having to think what those numbers actually mean. I guess we > should check which results are displayed at what position in the > current state. > > As for the original MC=0 issue: I think it should display infinity in > this case. Our logic right now is that the pilot is only circling if > below glide path AND mc is set to any value above zero. This leads to > the "magic" switch at MC=0. It might be easier to understand if we > assumed that the pilot would always be circling when below glide path > even with no lift. This would probably lead to a division by zero > resulting in an infinite amount of height needed due to the wind > drift. As and easter egg we could obviously calculate the trip around > the earth though... ;) > > @Simon: Nice idea in general, but I think adding even more complexity > to the final glide bar isn't a good thing. Most people are probably > already confused by the two bars instead of just one... > > Turbo > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
