Addition to the suggestion below. Glider pilots in Australia are increasingly having to converse with Regular Public Transport aircraft in terms that RPT's understand. Several smaller airlines that operate in G airspace in Australia are challenging gliders lack of aids particularly SSR. These RPT's understand distance and direction/radial from their destinations [only] so it would be useful to have a selectable information box that shows distance in nautical miles and bearing/radial from RPT destination. In my case that is Cooma NSW but it could be Canberra, Temora, Wagga, Dubbo etc.
So my suggestion is for an information box that readily shows distance in nautical miles and radial from selectable airports in the XCSoar data base so glider pilots can readily give accurate position information to powered aircraft. Alan Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Alan Wilson [mailto:a...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 08 August, 2012 3:41 PM To: xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Xcsoar-user] [Xcsoar-devel] ideas for improvements Not sure of the intent of this subject, but I have spent too much radio time listening to pilots on long tasks trying to pass on their location. Particularly Corowa visitors probably 300 km NW of Corowa. Radio chatter takes many minutes in several languages. My suggestion is for an XCSoar data box giving bearing and distance from a selectable waypoint [that is not necessarily the task's next turnpoint. viz., Condo 240/36km [from Condoblin]. Then they could agree the reference from time to time and then radio their position in the above simple terms from that point. This function looks similar to 'alternate 1' but I have not figured out the specifics yet. Or it may be in Team modes? If there is this functionality in XCSoar somewhere, my apologies but I have not found it. Keep up the good work. Alan Wilson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
