Chip,

I'll try to give you a quick overview of my experiences with CU mobile
and the next time you see me at Blairstown, come ask. I fly the Grob
3S.

I have been using seeyou mobile for several years now and like it a
bunch. I don't fiddle with it much in flight, most setup is done on
the ground.



On Nov 8, 5:47 pm, Chip Bearden wrote:

Moreover, do pilots actually use this without the stylus, using only
their fingertips as the input device? I saw a note in the user manual
about selecting TPs for a task using the Windows input screen before
launch. That won't work here in the U.S. where tasks are changed in
the air with minutes to go before the gate opens, though I'm finding
ways to build a task (albeit with the stylus) without the virtual
keyboard.


Rarely do I need to stylus. Tasks are created or edited using a
finger and the pull down list of turnpoints.
Edit Area radius with the +/- buttons.


And the developer touts the benefits of comparing achieved L/D with
required L/D. Great once you're on final glide but not helpful when
setting it up unless I'm missing something, and that means adding
still more nav boxes to the screen.

No, they display L/D needed for the landing points on the map and 1
nav box showing L/D current. Compare and you're golden.

It also seems buggy. I often freeze the map display in sim mode though
I can usually still use the menu to save my config settings and exit
without losing the map layouts I've laboriously been building.

I have only had 1 bad freeze bug and that is under the following
conditions.

You have the "Assigned Area" checkbox checked for both the start and
finish cylinder. This is a bug that CU is working on.

Otherwise it's been pretty stable.


Pilots claim to be using SeeYou Mobile in contests (although I hear
stories of year-long ramp ups). Does anyone have a cheat sheet for how
they've set up their map screens? Tips and tricks for flying with it?
Shortcuts/hot keys for the most commonly required tasks? Shortest
paths to key data elements or functions? I've pored through forum
postings and gleaned certain things (e.g., using Map2 exclusively as
the final glide screen with large nav boxes) but I guess the real
secrets are being retained by those who've spent a year or two coming
up to speed.

Picking the nav boxes that you want has been the biggest hassle for
me.

There are not really many pages that you need to get to in flight
other than the main pages, which are cycled by the left/right
buttons.

The addition pages I go to are
1) the task page (set to one of the 4 hardware buttons)
2) the flight properties page (altimeter setting, bugs, ballast,
etc)
3) the fly direct page

I have a hardware button to turn on/off the topo, because it is
distracting most of the time.
I also keep the "thermal assistant" off.

For Assigned area tasks (TAT) just tap the screen to adjust the
turnpoint location.

The biggest tip is to not allow draging the "Symbols" like the final
glide or wind vector. This reduces screen touch screwups.

Maybe I should just list the actual in air tasks that I use SeeYou
for:

1) Navigation backup, where am I.
2) Show landing spots that I can glide to. they show up in yellow or
green,
3) show me the wind guesstimate
4) tell me the local ground elevation (it's pretty accurate)
5) give me bearing, distance and arrival altitude to a destination,
I have to select the destination

6) change MC, ballast or bugs
7) manage tasks (this is the big one and it takes most of the
interaction)

7.1) press the start button on your last exit of the cyclinder
7.2) add, delete, change or edit turnpoints - work the "task page"
7.3) move TAT points within the circle.

seeyou will then tell you all kinds of things like how much time it
predicts that you will take to finish. How much time is left before
the min time, your XC speed so far, etc. It will also predict how
much altitude you need to finish.

Later I can email you my setup file and you can see how I have the nav
boxes set up.


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Chip Bearden