Thermal strength and wind are inherently uncertain, but are not entirely random. Having an estimate is better than assuming zero for each.
For reasons described in my previous email, simply adding more configuration options does not help. I fail to see the logic behind having separate MC values for cruise-climb and final glide cycles and shudder at the thought of how this would further confuse pilots. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Evan Ludeman <[email protected]> wrote: > As long as I can turn it off.... > > Here's the thing: thermal strength is inherently uncertain, therefore so is > the wind drift and hence the total climb required. I see no purpose to this > additional functionality that you propose on the screen final glide screen. > It merely tells me what I already know intuitively. It could be used to > calculate arrival time as John pointed out, but this leads back to my > earlier point that there are a *lot* of pilots who effectively use different > Mc values for speed to fly vs final glide calculations, for a whole bunch of > good reasons. If you want to complicate XCS, this is my suggestion for > doing so in a fashion that might be useful to advanced XC & racing pilots: > give us the option of setting independent Mc values for final glide and > speed to cruise. I promise you: this will get noticed. John Cochrane would > be all over this in a minute. > > regards, > > Evan Ludeman / T8 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
