LK8000 Portrait mode in PC sim mode

On Dec 26, 6:51*pm, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Monday, December 26, 2011 7:07:26 PM UTC-5, kirk.stant wrote:
On Dec 26, 11:40*am, "PCool" wrote:
To me (and I used to navigate planes for a living so I'm a bit biased)
the only orientation that really makes sense is Heading up -
especially if there is a lot of crosswind. *I want the map to mirror
what is outside the cockpit, and with track up and a crosswind, it's
possible for a feature in the distance (mountain, for example) to be
on one side of the map centerline, but on the other side of the
canopy, due to the glider's crab angle.

"Heading Up" does not match what you see out the cockpit with crosswind.
That is why ILEC SN10 does "nose up", matching your view...

Hope that's clear !
Best Regards, Dave "YO electric"

Uh, Dave, heading up and nose up are the same thing. Heading (which
way the pointy end is pointed, and read on the drippy compass thingy)
adjusted for the drift due to a crosswind is Track. Track up and Nose
up are only the same if there is either no wind, or the wind is a
direct tail or headwind.

Exaggerated example - I've got 30 degrees of drift to the right. My
goal is a mountain peak in the distance, and I've adjusted my heading
(which way my nose is pointing) 30 degrees to the left to compensate
for the drift, and my track is now directly towards the mountain.
Looking out the cockpit, the mountain is 30 degrees right of the
nose. If my map is Track Up, it shows the mountain directly ahead.
If the map is Heading up, it shows the mountain 30 degrees to the
right (matching my view out the window). Hopefully with a Track Line
showing that I'm going the right direction!

GPS navigators typically only present Track, because they have no way
of knowing heading without a compass input from the plane. Or, given
a wind, they can "back-in" heading by subtracting drift from track to
get heading.

Nav lesson for the day is now over - back to football!

Cheers,

Kirk

I use Trackup with north up above 7km zoom. This is like SYM is working, and
I did it the same.
In landscape mode most people prefer to use north smart, with LK.
North smart is like north up, but the glider is repositioned automatically
to make more space in front of it on the moving map.
But I guess it is a matter of personal preference, and if you are used to
portrait mode you can use it in LK too, in fact it is fully supported of
course.

best
paolo

"kirk.stant" ha scritto nel messaggio
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Paolo, north up makes even less sense most of the time!

To me (and I used to navigate planes for a living so I'm a bit biased)
the only orientation that really makes sense is Heading up -
especially if there is a lot of crosswind. I want the map to mirror
what is outside the cockpit, and with track up and a crosswind, it's
possible for a feature in the distance (mountain, for example) to be
on one side of the map centerline, but on the other side of the
canopy, due to the glider's crab angle.

For this to be useful, of course, you need a good indication of the
actual ground track, so you can adjust your heading accordingly.

This, naturally, is how I have SYM configured in my glider.

On Dec 24, 4:33*pm, jcarlyle wrote:
Kirk,

Hmmm - I'm running v2.2e (the last stable release) under Win XP Pro,
and the -480x640 resolution works fine.

480x800 is definitely one of the selectable resolutions, according to
this site:http://lk8000.it/faq/62-running-lk-o...how-to-run-lk-...
Maybe selecting one of the other 3 resolutions listed will help on
your machine?

The other possibility is that they eliminated this resolution feature
in v2.3, which are development versions.

-John

On Dec 24, 5:21 pm, "kirk.stant" wrote:







John, that doesn't work on my Win7 shortcut - I get an error message
saying that "The name 'C:Users\...\LK8000\LK8000-PC.exe -480x800'
specified in the Target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file
name are correct."

There are double quotes in the file name in the Target box, single
quotes in the error box.

The shortcut works just fine, otherwise.

Any ideas?

Kirk

I ended up using the 272x480 size and it looks correct on my PC.

Kirk

This is what works for me.

The short cut target is "C:\ ....\LK8000\LK8000-PC.exe" -480x800
The Start in directory is "C:\...\LK8000\

The ... is the path to the LK8000 directory where the application with all
its' associated subdirectories and files are installed.

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/



"jcarlyle" wrote in message
...

Kirk,

Hmmm - I'm running v2.2e (the last stable release) under Win XP Pro,
and the -480x640 resolution works fine.

480x800 is definitely one of the selectable resolutions, according to
this site:
http://lk8000.it/faq/62-running-lk-o...reen-size.html
Maybe selecting one of the other 3 resolutions listed will help on
your machine?

The other possibility is that they eliminated this resolution feature
in v2.3, which are development versions.

-John

On Dec 24, 5:21 pm, "kirk.stant" wrote:
John, that doesn't work on my Win7 shortcut - I get an error message
saying that "The name 'C:Users\...\LK8000\LK8000-PC.exe -480x800'
specified in the Target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file
name are correct."

There are double quotes in the file name in the Target box, single
quotes in the error box.

The shortcut works just fine, otherwise.

Any ideas?

Kirk