Max, this is indeed a practical solution to give an option to decouple 302 MC settings from XCSoar, and just set MC=0 in XCSoar. I already opened the ticket requesting this, but while this will work for me I am concerns about the rest of XCSoar users who don't read this and don't realize what a huge difference MC zero vs 0.5 or 1 can make to their decisions with moderate headwind. As I said, this almost caused me to turn around and land out in an alternate field until I forced myself to ignore what xcsoar was telling me. I had no way to know even after carefully reading the manual twice that all I needed was to reduce mc to zero to get realistic number. I only figured it out when replaying my flight later.
Thanks, Ramy On Nov 22, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Max Kellermann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011/11/22 21:34, Ramy Yanetz <[email protected]> wrote: >> And since 302 gives my audio STF command, there is no other way I can easily >> make it to tell me to fly a little faster than tweaking the MC, and since >> this in turns update the MC in XCSoar, hence we have this discussion... > > So it boils down to: you want to have different MacCready settings in > the CAI302 and XCSoar? > > I worked hard to make linking them possible, and it's pretty easy to > disconnect them for those who don't want it. We have a ticket for > that already, IIRC. > >> Max, we both use the same setup of 302/xcsoar, so I am curious how you >> address this scenario of a marginal final glide at the end of the day into a >> buoyant 20 knots headwind without causing XCSoar to assume that you plan to >> climb and recalculate your arrival altitude. The only way to do it will be >> perhaps to add bug factor but this is not what it was designed for and takes >> more effort. MC is more intuitive. > > MacCready is only intuitive because you've been learning all your life > to do it that way, because legacy computers (and of course the good > old MacCready ring) can't do better. It was a kludge based on > limitations of the tools we had. > > It's not an issue with a modern glide computer. XCSoar will consider > the wind in all calculations, and one doesn't need to increase the > MacCready/Bugs setting to account for head wind. > > On your question: I use AutoMC. > > Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
