Re: [Aus-soaring] Turnpoints

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Loxton
it all reminds me of a tale about a horse drawn zeppelin……. On 11 Jan 2014, at 12:35 pm, Adam Woolley wrote: > Don't worry Rolf, this topic will get to team flying & GFA bashing soon - > then Mark Newton will step in, & the cycle will continue... > > I was thinking the same thing..! > >

Re: [Aus-soaring] Turnpoints/interface design

2014-01-12 Thread Mike Borgelt
The problem is the limitations of the 4 or 5 button interface. The hardware to implement this is dirt cheap. In general when you have to do lots of button pushes to change a value(like selecting a turnpoint from a list) a rotary encoder is a better input device. The other problem is large

Re: [Aus-soaring] WA State Comps

2014-01-12 Thread Mike Borgelt
Is that the Rob Duffy I used to be on RAPAC with in South Australia in the mid 1980s? Mike At 11:24 PM 10/01/2014, you wrote: Thanks Don, Great to hear you are doing well and only 400points behind I believe. Well done. Best wishes to you and Jen too Rob -- From: aus-soaring-boun...@l

Re: [Aus-soaring] Turnpoints/interface design

2014-01-12 Thread DMcD
The LX8000 etc. all have rotary encoders so selecting, editing, renaming etc. even in flight, is easy. You can have dozens of waypoint lists in the device and just select an active one, so almost all your requirements are met. The problem I have found with getting lat and long through Google Earth

Re: [Aus-soaring] Turnpoints

2014-01-12 Thread James Dutschke
I think they had it right with the blaniks. I don't think anyone ever had a turnpoint problem in a blanik. Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Jan 2014, at 21:20, Ben Loxton wrote: > > it all reminds me of a tale about a horse drawn zeppelin……. > > > > > > >> On 11 Jan 2014, at 12:35 pm, Adam W

Re: [Aus-soaring] Turnpoints

2014-01-12 Thread Ben Loxton
Ingo Renner has only one turnpoint. Earth. On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:54 PM, James Dutschke wrote: > I think they had it right with the blaniks. I don't think anyone ever had > a turnpoint problem in a blanik. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 12 Jan 2014, at 21:20, Ben Loxton wrote: > > it