Is it time to stop adding features to soaring software? Is it timeto focus on reliability?

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Martin Gregorie wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:37:35 -0600, Wallace Berry wrote:

Same here! I still find SoarPilot on an old Tungsten T to be the best
system for me. Simple, easy to configure, and much better sunlight
readability than anything else I have tried. In over 8 years of flying
with SoarPilot, I have had to do a reset in flight just once, and that
was because of a damaged connector. I tried LK8000 on a Mio Moov. Even
with the screen brightness hack could not see it well enough to be
usable.

I have similar problems, but I've found that turning terrain off and
setting the background map colour to white helps a lot. Then, you find
that the LK8000 overlay numbers are hard to read because they're white
with black outlines. So, set the overlay text colour to white and check
the 'inverse colours' box and now you have solid black letters on a
mostly white map (or you could just use something like dark blue for the
text).

Of course, I mainly fly in flat parts of the UK, so if you fly where most
of the land is standing on end and terrain shading is vital this may not
be a great solution.

Thanks, Martin. I'll give that a try. Other than the readability issue,
a PNA and LK8000 seems like a very nice self-contained system.

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