Of what use is instantaneous wind? Can you react to it without flapping
control surfaces all over the place? Do you use it for planning your
next turn in a thermal?

Not knocking it, I just don't get it why it would be important. Please
enlighten me.

On 10/21/2015 3:06 AM, krasw wrote:
On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 03:32:11 UTC+3, jfitch wrote:
Regarding the description of wind accuracy in the first link: This was my impression also: that the instantaneous wind indication could not be accurate, as it was so dynamic. However after two years of use I have come to believe it is accurate, and the wind field really is that dynamic, you just had no way to measure it before. This instrument is really in a class of its own.
I agree, I started noticing noise in wind measurement when going to under 2 sec time constant. Wind measurement is basically as fast as the variometer. Now who would do a software where I could record 3D airmass movement with AIR Glide to a file and visualize it later with Seeyou or similar?

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Dan, 5J