Hi I like Olaf's summary !!!
As for the questions how other manufactures have implemented L/D req. I would venture a guess that LX uses geometric plus wind. Sascha On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 8:36 AM EST Olaf Hartmann wrote: >Please read the feature request. Some people want geometric L/D for good >reason (e.g. very altitude dependent wind) I for myself would prefer L/D >relative to airmass. Wich one is our "curent L/D" btw? >So i would propose making this an option. E.g. a combo box with a few useful >choices, like: >- Arrival altitude >- altitude + L/D >- altitude + L/D air >- L/D >- L/D air > >Olaf > > > >John Wharington <jwharing...@gmail.com> schrieb: > >L/D relative to airmass is more useful, I really can't see how knowing >geometric gradient helps. > >On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tobias Bieniek <tobias.bien...@gmx.de> wrote: >> That is a valid question and by reading both feature requests it seems >> that people are actually requesting both independently. My personal >> opinion would favor the L/D relative to the airmass. If I understand >> correctly that version would take the wind into account, right? I >> don't think the geometric L/D is particularly useful as it doesn't >> even take the wind drift in cruise into account. Not sure how the >> others do it but if I remember right LK8000 shows the geometric value. >> >> 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
