Glider computers - what's important?

"Andy" wrote:

On Mar 12, 5:08 am, "Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote:

It simply looks in 48 directions around the compass and computes the maximum
glide in each direction considering wind, polar, McCready, balast and bugs.


Yes it does. 48 seemed like a good compromise between computation time
and "precision". This could be made a user input parameter in future
editions if there is a general concensus that it would be useful.

Plase confirm this function uses current MC. I browsed the on-line
manual and I thought it said ZERO MC which is not the implementation I
would want.

You are right about documentation. I will need to check in the code.
It may well be ZERO MC as it is a "safety" feature. If you are looking
for a safe place to land you want to fly at best glide angle, not best
time. Anyone would like to comment?


Is anyone using the terrain functions on an Aero 1550? If so is
performance adequate?


I am. I have not seen any problems so far, and I usually do fly in the
mountains.

Henryk Birecki