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2840
Hi I own an old Palm Vx and a Sony Clié TJ37. We have a lot of SUA in Switzerland and around (419 items and 5430 points) and I added about 600 waypoints. If...
rrarr2003
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Oct 1, 2004
7:07 am
2841
Hi, i agree with Paul here. I think that a "moving map" would uselessly clutter the display. It is hard enough to read the display in sunglight and with a...
Markus Gayda
maverick7de
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Oct 1, 2004
7:50 am
2842
Hi Paul and all other SP users ... Commercial Applications must mainly sell on the ground, i.e. showing the software to potential glider pilots on (long)...
Robert Huber
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Oct 1, 2004
7:58 am
2843
Paul, The data mainly comes from NEMA (which is a HUGE database), I believe it is a subset of the DAFIF data which you already get terrain elevation and SUA...
Steed, Derrick M
pegasusinapik
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Oct 1, 2004
8:00 am
2844
Hi Paul and All! I hope that following suggestion provides a useful addition and an interesting challenge for Paul (BTW I would be glad to help out): During...
urisavor
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Oct 1, 2004
8:17 am
2845
Hi Uri, i guess that would be nice to have, but impossible to achieve. Consider that the "Idaflieg" tries to replace their current measuring system for polars...
Markus Gayda
maverick7de
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Oct 1, 2004
8:30 am
2846
..... since my first mail seems to have misfired (i cant see it here) it ry sending it again... sorry for any double-mails..... Hi, i agree with Paul here. I...
Markus Gayda
maverick7de
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Oct 1, 2004
8:37 am
2847
Well ... I agree, the best map is when a see outside the cockpit ... I agree also, i use the moving map in first use to take care about the SUA and restrictive...
Cnuma
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Oct 1, 2004
8:37 am
2848
... I may be mistaken, but I think you are wrong here. The dataset we used in KFLog/Cumulus for ground elevations has nothing to do with NEMA or DAFIF. I have...
André Somers
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Oct 1, 2004
8:51 am
2849
Manu, http://www.nav2000.com is a nice site, too bad it's only in French... :( Personally I don't need a moving map in SP, I think it would clutter the display...
Antoine Megens
dingetje_2001
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Oct 1, 2004
9:04 am
2850
Markus, Consider the following: * we should not be using "theoretical" or "sales" polars, but actual achieved polars. Anyway for a 37 year-old glider like...
urisavor
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Oct 1, 2004
9:39 am
2851
Previously some of us reported final glide problems in head wind. In this situation it would be useful to have a GPS based current l/d or polar because it...
Janos Bauer
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Oct 1, 2004
9:43 am
2852
Janos, Is there really a problem? In my experience of flying with SP it has always been very good on final glides. This does depend on getting the polar curve...
Paul Gleeson
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Oct 1, 2004
11:02 am
2853
... Yes, I had a strange case with std Cirrus where sp indicated above glide slope three times (during ~65km final glide) and all the cases I ended up below...
Janos Bauer
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Oct 1, 2004
11:19 am
2854
Paul, I actually would like to take this as a personal sub-project. I would start with a presentation of the actual L/D achieved, and work from there. I...
urisavor
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Oct 1, 2004
11:21 am
2855
I think a useful functions (they are implemented in SeeYou and seem useful to me) would be: 1. achieved L/D 2. required L/D 1 is a simple geometric calculation...
Steed, Derrick M
pegasusinapik
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Oct 1, 2004
12:48 pm
2856
Regarding the moving map: I have seen the moving map displays used by other software and I have come to the conclusion that it is just too much information. It...
Stan Martin
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Oct 1, 2004
1:41 pm
2857
I have installed SPterm on two XP machines and a Win 2000 machine with no problems. The only thing that I can think of is that your source file has been...
Paul R. Jorgenson
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Oct 1, 2004
3:04 pm
2858
Just to confirm, I have also installed SP on WIN XP, with no problem. Best regards, Peter Rónai ... From: Paul R. Jorgenson [mailto:ke7hr@...] Sent:...
Rónai Péter
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Oct 1, 2004
3:21 pm
2859
Janos, Do you have an IGC file for this flight? I would be really interested to reply this and see if I can replicate the problem. Paul ... has ... above ... ...
Paul Gleeson
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Oct 1, 2004
8:37 pm
2860
Hi Uri, We actually had an L/D field back in version 1.8.5 There was a lot of discussion about if it was useful or not. Maybe you can search back in the...
Paul Gleeson
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Oct 1, 2004
8:41 pm
2861
Hi Paul, I came to SP after v1.8.5, so didn't get a chance to experience it. I actually looked for the reasons, since I saw in one of the readme files that it...
urisavor
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Oct 1, 2004
11:37 pm
2862
Here are the changes I propose to make to make SP "fully" compatible with Seeyou waypoints The field mapping will change to Seeyou in SP Title -> remarks ...
Paul Gleeson
pgleesonuk
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Oct 2, 2004
8:20 am
2863
1.84 was the version that introduced the L/D calculation. It was an average of up to 30 instantaneous readings and still jumped around quite a bit. The ...
Paul R. Jorgenson
ke7hr
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Oct 2, 2004
5:07 pm
2864
le 2/10/04 10:20, Paul Gleeson à pgleesonuk@... a écrit : Here are the changes I propose to make to make SP "fully" compatible with Seeyou waypoints...
Robert Fort
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Oct 2, 2004
6:33 pm
2865
A couple of days ago I was thermalling near the edge of an adjacent SUA. As the wind was drifting me slowly towards this SUA, the SUA warning kept coming up...
Ole Refsgaard
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Oct 2, 2004
10:04 pm
2866
I agree that we don't want to clutter up SP with true moving map features. However there is a compromise :- I have been running GPSPilot on the Palm for a...
Russell Fletcher
lashamgliding
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Oct 3, 2004
8:43 am
2867
Paul, Thanks for the proposal. This does seem the most compatible solution. My apologies for not trying a direct load of SeeYou, where the data will indeed be...
Graham Lambert
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Oct 3, 2004
12:48 pm
2868
All, I am in total agreement with Paul (eye candy) and Robert (Commercial Applications must mainly sell on the ground) on this one. Having personally known 2...
Graham Lambert
lambertgeg
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Oct 3, 2004
12:54 pm
2869
Yes, but then KISS is a much overworked and discredited cliché. It implies that if you are not simple then you must be stupid. Well suit yourself. I think...
Russell Fletcher
lashamgliding
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Oct 3, 2004
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