Hmm. I have seen that happening time to time. XCSoar running on NOOK,
IOIO + Soartronic UART interface, FLARM on UART 0 and LX160si on UART
2. LX160 sending TAS 8or is it IAS actualy) is a bit slow. just my two
(euro) cents ;^)

2014-11-20 19:29 GMT+02:00 Ian <ian-xcs...@zsd.co.za>:
> Hi All
>
> I have experienced XCSoar report grossly inaccurate wind values. Wind
> speeds of > 100km/h, coming from the completely the wrong direction.
> This happens with wind settings on "auto, both". I have seen it quite
> often, but not on every flight. If I play with settings during flight, I
> can sometimes fix the issue. Setting wind to "auto, circling" for a
> while seems to help. If I can "tame" this issue, the wind calcs are fast
> and accurate for the rest of the flight.
>
> This is a photo of a NMEA log file replay on my Dell Streak which shows
> the problem:
>
> http://users.zsd.co.za/~ian2/xcsoar-bug/2014-11-20%2009.24.36.jpg
>
> The wind speed is indicated > 100 km/h, it should read about 25km/h.
> This is an hour and a half into the replay. I also setup info boxes to
> show true airspeed and ground speed.
>
> I searched the bug lists and I found this ticket which appears to
> describe my problem:
>
> http://bugs.xcsoar.org/ticket/3062
>
> I have added comments to that ticket with a link to a NMEA log file and
> that photo.
>
> Unfortunately nobody has claimed ownership of this bug and there have
> been no updates for over a year. So I posted this here least somebody
> sees this and is inspired to provide man hours to fix the problem.
>
> I do a lot of ridge and wave flying where circling wind calcs do not
> work and I loath playing with PDA settings in flight. (Definitely not a
> good idea when ridge soaring!). So I am keen to help get this bug fixed.
>
> Thanks in anticipation!
>
>
> Ian
>
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