I've been putting in some extra waypoints for road-testing, and it's frustrating that I have to keep altering degrees East to degrees West. Would it be...
Defaulting to N/S or E/W should be possible, but changing the way the text field works is much more difficult as this in built into the Palm OS, and not...
... Done for the next beta version. ... You can swip the whole text field from left to right to select all the text, then just enter the numbers. The first...
... waypoint ... Thanks, looking forward to it. There can only be a few people with both E/W and even fewer with N/S turnpoints who might lose from this. ... ...
... There can only be a few people with both E/W and even fewer with N/S turnpoints who might lose from this. ... Mostly in England :-) as the Greenwich...
... The prime meridien runs from Cleethorpes to Peacehaven, through Greenwich of course. Those of us flying in Scotland don't have a problem as it's well west...
... At least the Paris pilot flying to Normandy isn't flying over the north sea, unlike the Scottish pilot attempting a trip to Denmark. Bits of Spain must...
I have very little cross country flying experience and I would like to try and understand how SP can help me with this. Let's say I set SP to optimse STF for...
... correct ... safety ... line) ... fly ... one ... In my view the most important use of SP is for avoiding airspace - we have lots of that in the UK and...
Hi. Although this is sent to the list, I guess Paul is the best person to answer some random questions... Am I correct in thinkink that SP is free, but is NOT...
Hi, Yes SoarPilot is free, but not open source. Mark and I are the current developers, but this changes from time to time. You need to understand C and Palm OS...
Have a look in the on-line manaul http://www.soaringpilot.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/soarpilot/final_glide_s creen#lift_sink_table This explains the difference...
Hi I have read the manual and I can't seem to find answers to some of my questions. I know about speed and distant mode. So assuming I'm a complete noob and...
Does your electric vario have a speed to fly feature allowing you to set the MC value, and then telling you to speed up or slow down? (depending on the...
Wow, seriously detailed reply. Thanks. Sorry, but I'm learning about SP and cross country flying at the same time so excuse the obvious questions. It's a...
No criticism intended here. Just a few comments to clear a couple of things up. FYI... ... Certaintly your choice... ... Not a high percentage of people but,...
I am trying to charge my Tungsten T directly from the glider battery and I am getting noise on my hand held radio. This has been documented before - has a...
... documented ... More information - my charging system consists of an accessory socket (cigarette lighter style) connected to the glider power with a USB ...
The RF noise is almost undoubtedly due to the switching (read high frequency oscillator) DC-DC converter in the accessory adaptor. the high-speed switching...
I'm a reasonably experienced X-C pilot who has been using SP in contests for a while, so I'll throw in my $0.02. Other than the obvious advantages associated...
... I had the same problem using a "battery extender" with AA batteries; it seems more linked to the serial link on the Palm connector? Nevertheless, it was...
I bought two ferrite beads/cores at Radio Shack - they call them Snap Choke Cores part number 273-0067. Set the Tungsten up on my bench with the glider battery...
I bought a RECON PDA http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/335/C2379/ with Windows Mobile on E-Bay to use with a Bluetooth GPS, StyleTap and SoaringPilot...
Not possible I'm afraid. Each PDA manufacturer customises Windows mobile for their specific PDA device and AFAIK it's part of the PDA's ROM and can therefore...
... UNLESS the PDA manufacturer has released the upgrade. Try the TDS support pages via www.tdsway.com if you need to upgrade. ... Possible: maybe, see above....
Thanks guys, but slowly now. I'm missing something here, so I'm going try to keep this very basic. Please answer these: 1. SP calcs a table of STF values and...
Thanks guys, but slowly now. I'm missing something here, so I'm going try to keep this very basic. Please answer these: 1. SP calcs a table of STF values and...
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