Ross, WinPilot on older iPaqs has serious issues with large databases of any kind. It seems to be constantly checking final glide to any marks landable point in either the TP file or the Airfield file (which contains every official airfield in asia and australia) - it can't do this in the refresh time, so crashes WinPilot - deleting the Airfield file helps.
I suspect that it is also constantly checking the distance to any airspace boundary, but the calculation used is unable to ignore unrealistic points in the file. This means a huge file causes the same problems as above. In real terms (as you ask), WinPilot crashes if I try to use the airspace file on either of the iPaqs I have owned. Newer iPaqs with much faster processors, and processors better designed for calculations will work, but may be close to the limit ! I have previously taken this huge airspace file and spent several hours deleting any airspace that I wasn't likely to encounter from it, but this file is out of date (even if I can find it again). Matt On 26/01/2012, at 1:07 , Ross McLean wrote: > Hi Chris > The airspace file was provided to the organizers by a highly experienced > competition pilot and the CD felt that the turnpoint file developed by Miles > Gore-Brown previously gave the task setters a whole lot of flexibility to set > tasks according to the weather variables. There are no real airspace issues > tasking out of Narromine so it wasn’t felt necessary to assign a “playing > field” as such in the airspace file but rather to provide a file that > identified all the CTAFR and Danger Area airspace restrictions that are > present locally and are generally only activated by NOTAM. There is really no > Restricted Airspace in the realistic task areas out of Narromine. I have > personally uploaded the airspace file to my iPaq running Winpilot and have > found no problem with it at all. > I am left wondering what your issue is in real terms. > Regards, ROSS > > From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net > [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Chris Woolley > Sent: Wednesday, 25 January 2012 4:35 PM > To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] 50th Multi Class Nationals at Narromine > > Narromine Nationals Competitors, > > The Narromine Nationals web site has links to the turnpoint and airspace > files (see below) which from my point of view have issues > For those WinPilot users there are issues with the official airspace file > because it is too large. It looks like it covers the whole continent. > The official turnpoint file looks like one Miles put together for record > flying out of Narromine many years ago. From my point of view it is not > suitable in its current form. > > The joeyglide 2010 airspace and turnpoint files for Narromine look much > better. > http://soaringweb.org/TP/Narromine > > Regards > Chris > > From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net > [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Ross McLean > Sent: Sunday, 22 January 2012 4:18 PM > To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.' > Subject: [Aus-soaring] 50th Multi Class Nationals at Narromine > > 50th MultiClass Nationals Preparation Finalised: > > We're All Set!! the organisation is all in place and we are ready to go. > All sections of the website > www.narromineglidingclub.com.au/Narromine50/MultiClass2012.html are fully > functional. > The rules, handicaps, turnpoints, airspace files are all on the site and are > available for download. > The website has the facility to upload your log files directly to the scorer > from your web browser and you can check the scores online with a single click. > The weather page is comprehensive and apart from the daily met briefing each > day provided by the competition organizers you will be able to do your own > forecasting well ahead of time. > If you want to follow the progress of the pilots during the task each day you > will be able to track them with the SPOT device directly from the website. > > If you haven’t registered for the competition yet there are still a few > places available and you will be very welcome to join the fun. You can > download the entry form from the website and email it back to the comp > organizers. > > It promises to be a great Comp! We hope you enjoy it and have fun. > > ROSS > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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