Hi Robert, check XY's Altair firmware as I believe that it has the most up to date version (not sure of the version number) and I have managed to run XCsoar off a USB stick using that version.
I too am having flap switching problems as I have just updated the avionics wiring to include a flap switch on the vega. It is changing to circling mode but not back to cruise mode after leaving the thermal. I still have to check out the vega itself some more and update to latest version of xcsoar (still behind the times running version 6.1.4) before I make my problems public. For the meantime I have just changed flap forces cruise to "off" and I think XCsoar goes off your gps position for circling/cruising pages. It still works although a little delayed. Chad Nowak On 02/10/2012, at 9:42, Robert Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I tried to follow Scott's web page instructions for loading and running > 6.4 off a USB stick, but I could not get may Altair (running Altair > V1.13 software - is there another, earlier upgrade I need to do first?) > to see/load the new Altair software...so I am running V 6.2.1 in this comp. > > I have a number of (quite possibly configuration) problems on my system... > > 1. The flap switches are detected by the Vega but despite having "Flap > forces cruise" to ON, the Altair does not switch mode when I move > the flap into positive settings. > > 2. I have the "TC Avg" info box set up on the circling screen - but it > is not showing any sort of reasonable value. Is it possible this is > because I am having to switch manually between cruise/circling > screens and so XCSoar doesn't know when I started to climb... > > 3. I don't understand the difference between "V task achieved" and "V > task average". When I flew yesterday I flew with "V task achieved" > and this resulted in speed of 64km/hr being shown on the final leg > when I wound the Macready back to 1.5kt (from 4kt) as the day died > and I had to creep home. I actually achieved 110km/hr. I will fly > today with V task Average instead and see if that makes more sense > to me! > > 4. With the Vega/Altair combo (GPS fed from a FLARM), V TAS does not > seem to work. I had expected it would do so - am I wrong or is this > a bug? > > Any help appreciated (many thanks in advance). > > -- > > *Robert Hart [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Darling Downs gliding weather information > <http://the-white-knight-speaks.blogspot.com.au/>* > +61 438 385 533 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM > Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly > what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app > Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
