From: Tobias Bieniek <[email protected]>

>When I tested them a few months ago they were not satisfying my
expectations
> but if this is a feature that more people find useful we might reevaluate
the 
> code to make it better. The two infoboxes related to the "Pirker Vario"
are 
> "Speed task instantaneous" and "Speed task achieved" though by reading 
> about it, it is more like a speed infobox than a vario infobox. Still it
shows you 
> the progress along the task while circling (by converting lift into speed)
and while
> cruising (by using your speed and filtering out the altitude losses). I
hope you 
> kinda understood what I was talking about... Feels like I just described
pure chaos :D

Dr. Herber Pirker developed a final glide / speed to fly calculator and a
theory to calculate instantaneous cross country speed. Maybe it´s easier to
let him describe his theories himself ;-)

The links I have for them are in german only, sorry...
http://libelle.bugwiper.com/ea_gr1000.ppt
http://www.streckenflug.at/download/pirker_tacho.pdf
http://www.streckenflug.at/download/reisegeschwindigkeit.pdf

Michael


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