Thanks Ian. Will appreciate if xcsoar developers can provide more information on some of the changes, especially when removing a useful feature like prefer external wind.
Thanks, Ramy (Sent from my iPhone) > On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:29 AM, Ian <ian-xcs...@zsd.co.za> wrote: > > >> On 16/06/2015 02:18, Ramy Yanetz wrote: >> >> I couldnt find more information about "remove setting Prefer external >> wind" in the change log. Can you elaborate? > > I tried the new alpha version on the weekend. It registered a plausible > wind vector within 30 seconds on aerotow. It was a wave day >70km/h wind. > > But it crashed less than a minute later (Dell 5, ioio card), so I > started the stable version that worked as expected for the next 4 hours. > >> I am always using this setting to get the 302 wind calculation, as well >> as to toggle between external wind and manual wind. >> I hope this option is still going to be supported. >> I didnt get a chance to try this myself as I am traveling for some >> soaring events and prefer to continue using the stable version for now. > > I rely on the wind calculations for ridge and wave flights. I have > scanned the change log files for entries related to wind, but some of > the entries are very terse. I also looked at the source file patches but > I am not 100% sure what algorithm is inside each version. Is there a > discussion on the developers list or other source of info on this? > > (Off topic, I am curious what wind algorithms are inside the Top Hat > fork of XCSoar). > > Does the alpha version log a crash dump file, if so would you like me to > upload it in a bug report? > > Thanks > > Ian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
