Thread: XCSoar and Wind
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Old November 20th 15, 01:58 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default XCSoar and Wind

OK, I flew the Sinus today. I could find no way to configure the Streak
to calculate wind based upon circling. I flew for 1.7 hours and had no
wind display until I manually entered what I thought was the wind at
altitude. I determined that by flying upwind/downwind and taking half
the difference between ground speeds as the the wind speed. It's clear
that the internal GPS in my Streak works but there doesn't seem to be a
way to make it display calculated wind.

I wish one of the developers would just tell us how to do it. I can't
find anything in the manual, either.

Frustrated...

On 11/19/2015 1:50 PM, Ramy wrote:
with pre 6.8 I simply unselected the "use external wind" whenever I wanted the set the wind manually. It worked well. I am hoping there is a way to achieve the same in 6.8 - having the ability to easily switch between external to manual wind. Without this I am better off with 6.7.

Ramy


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