On Aug 24, 12:08*am, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 8/23/2010 8:17 AM, akiley wrote: Well, I've flown long enough to know not to trust electronics. *I have
600 power hours using all sorts of navigators. *Funny, when you use a
Garmin 396 on a computer, it sets magnetic variation to user set
instead of auto. *SeeYou has quite a few bugs and gochas too. *So my
primary is look at the down angle back to the airport.

I've used SeeYou Mobile for 1000+ hours all over the USA, and I'm not
aware of any bugs or gotchas. I would never go back to paper charts,
whiz wheels, or just looking out the window. For example, most of my
final glides begin 30 to 50 miles from the airport, where I can't even
see it, yet they work out well most of the time.
Eric,
What happens if your electronics fry? Hope you have a backup
something. Just happened to a friend of mine, he found a 5 year old
WAC chart under his seat. I'm not going back to paper charts either,
I'm just saying for me, I'm going to back it up with something, even
if it's a quick math in the head thing. There are plenty of gochas I
can think of is SeeYouM. All you have to do is not double check what
your goto waypoint is, forget to add winds, polar, safety altitude.
Maybe they aren't gochas, but they sort of are for new users. It
takes a lot of thinking to make sure you know what you are doing.

I have the latest version of SeeYouM that I bought last fall. One
known bug is that the wing loading changes when you leave the polar
screen then come back. Try it. I think they fixed the one with Oudie
that didn't allow the user to set NM in units. You would have to
reset it every time you loaded SeeYouM. I haven't gotten an answer on
my Magnetic Track NavBox yet. It's off by 12 degrees. Maybe it's
party to do with old PDA hardware but I've had a lot of problems with
logging not starting, and NavBoxes showing no data, and lockups.
Other have had these problem too. Some days my statistic page that is
supposed to show thermal graphs doesn't.

I'm slowly replacing components of my iPaq to see if that's the
problem. I just replaced the CF card adapter back, I've tried a
different CF card. We'll see.

I'm definitely a navigator user. I have a Garmin 395, I've put quite
a lot of hours on Garmin G1000's in IFR flight. My point is one has
to be careful throwing full trust into these things. My SeeYou
experience has had a bad start, but I'll get it nailed down
eventually. I really enjoy analyzing my IGC file on my PC after the
day is done. In playback mode on the iPaq too, that is a learning
experience too. ... akiley

Your statement "So my primary is look at the down angle back to the
airport" suggests to me it's not SeeYou, but more likely your setup or
interpretation of what Mobile is telling you. If you are that close, the
computer should be working with no problems.

Flight computers can be a real aid to efficient, enjoyable soaring, so I
hate to see someone having problems with them. What version of mobile
are you using? Can you describe the two biggest bugs and gotchas?

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (netto to net to email me)

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