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At the Seniors in Florida this year, I found out the hard way that
WinPilot V8 AAT (Turn Area) mobile turnpoints will happily jump outside their respective area circles if you select 'Turn Here' while you are outside the active circle, EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE 'KEEP MTPS INSIDE CIRCLE' OPTION CHECKED! The task had three overlapping (the first and 3rd overlapped but adjacent ones didn't, so it was still legal) circles, so it was very difficult to tell just from the moving map which circle was which, and when several gliders in front of me all turned at the same place, I selected 'Turn Here', verified that the MTP symbol jumped to my current location (silly me - I thought that confirmed that I was in the active circle!), and turned with the group. Zero for the day :-( There are some cases, of course, where the pilot needs the ability to 'Turn Here' OUTSIDE the active turn area (pilot just nicks a turn area, but forgets to 'Turn Here' while still inside). However, even in this case, the MTP should NEVER go outside the active turn area circle, and the pilot should receive a 'Are you sure you want to do this?' warning. Also, it would be really useful if WinPilot were to issue a warning (in addition to the above 'Are you sure' warning) if the pilot has not logged any points inside the active turn area. I would love to post this issue on the WinPilot 'developer forum' but I've never been able to join it and the developer hasn't responded to my other bug reports/issues. Since he doesn't (at least not to me), I felt I should at least warn other WinPilot 8 users of the problem. Frank (TA) |
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