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Old October 26th 14, 08:57 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tom Claffey
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Default alternative McCready theory and variometers

Correct.



08:43 26 October 2014, wrote:
Hi,

The "alternative McCready theory" has been around for decades now.
http://www.tbss.us/txfiles/Kai_intro_XC.pdf
It's not opposing McCready, just making a strong case for steadier
inter-thermal speeds. But as I'm reading it, it makes the speed command
feature superficial.

Is there a variometer manufacturer that doesn't ignore that?

My ideas for features:

* showing equivalentMC
http://www.lk8000.it/new-20-features...t-mcready.html
* automatic MC set from equivalent MC

Getting rid of speed command would mean you could have something useful

in
cruise mode instead. For audio I would probably choose:

* relative netto variometer indication with dead-band.

and more....

Any comments?

Tibor