Best performing Vario?

On Friday, October 5, 2012 1:23:14 PM UTC-5, jfitch wrote:

I am talking about an in-flight addition or replacement of turnpoint in a task. When I do it in SYM it takes 9 plus however much scrolling is involved in finding the turn point. Maybe there is an easier way than the ones I have figured out? MenuTask(select where or what you want to changeInsert...(scroll to turnpointhiglightSelectOkOk - 9+, isn't it? This is the worst of the programs I have actually tried in flight. A few of the buttons are small and hard to hit in turbulence, for example the ellipsis (...).. Even just deleting a point is 7 buttons.
I don't think I have counted them up on XCSoar. WP is 4+ and less fiddly buttons too. iGlide is one!

Agree that some of the buttons are a bit small - but getting better. Hopefully, competition from XCSoar and LK8000 will bring some changes. But as far as changing tasks inflight - that isn't done in Europe (and really shouldn't be done in the US, IMHO), so wasn't probably a priority. Easy enough to program several tasks and just choose the one you need.

To add to a task: Task - Tools - Map - touch the desired tp - Yes to append point - OK. 6 taps.

To delete from a task: Task - select tp to delete - tools - Delete Point - YES - OK, 6 taps.

Not great (I used to use WP and do remember that it's task selection procedure was better) but OK.

How can iGlide use one tap to add or delete a point?

Kirk
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