From: Michael Brandon <[email protected]> >Yes, if I kept looking at the PDA I would know when I hit what XCSoar estimates is final glide, but why can't XCSoar give me a realistic estimate in the first place? Remember, I'm a simple chap - if I'm at 4,0000 ft and XCSoar says I need to climb 3,000 ft, I'm going to make 7,000 ft my mental target and - assuming the thermal doesn't weaken - see what XCSoar says when I get there, or at least, close to there.
I think it´s a matter of how we use and trust the information provided by XCSoar or any other instrument or software. In my humble opinion, your example case (climbing 3000ft without noticing that you drift away from wherever you want to go) would be poor pilotship, and not a software topic - no pun intended, we all know this is a test case to support discussion. One of the things I like about soaring is that it is hardly predictable and things are changing every minute. Sometimes I am more interested in a trend than in the actual value of some info box to support my decision making, and that´s where I would prefer the simple "arrival altitude" model over the mathematically correct but harder to anticipate "height gain required" model. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
