I guess all these years I had the wrong illusion believing that the height relative to glide slope is the most important information for me ;) It is the same as how much I need to GAIN (not necessarily circling) to make it. Where I fly, you don't always need to stop to climb to reach your goal. A little buyout air will often do, as well as decrease in head wind with altitude. We absolutely and definitely need arrival altitude like any other flight computer I know of.
Ramy On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org> wrote: > On 2011/11/21 23:40, Evan Ludeman <tangoei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry John, no sale. We need height relative to glide slope at a pilot >> selectable Mc setting for final glide. If that's being eliminated in >> preference wind dependent height of climb required, that's a poor >> choice. > > What XCSoar shows is not the height relative to the glide slope. > > What XCSoar shows is how much you need to climb to reach your goal. > > The height relative to the glide slope is a theoretical number that is > of no practical use for a glider, even if it might be appealing to > calculate it, and even if it gives you the illusion that it is useful. > > Max > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
