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Hey, I'll post my favorite whine about most of the current packages.
I used SoarPilot a lot up until a few years ago, when I finally got fed up with the crappy Palm connectors. However, SoarPilot gave you final glide information in a table, showing the arrival height (or glidepath delta) and target speeds for a range of MC settings. It gave me a better indication as to how much cushion I had in my glide. The little green/red arrows in XCSoar and SYM tell you that you can make it, but you don't have any feel for what running into some sink will do to you. Matt |
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On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 4:55:07 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Hey, I'll post my favorite whine about most of the current packages. I used SoarPilot a lot up until a few years ago, when I finally got fed up with the crappy Palm connectors. However, SoarPilot gave you final glide information in a table, showing the arrival height (or glidepath delta) and target speeds for a range of MC settings. It gave me a better indication as to how much cushion I had in my glide. The little green/red arrows in XCSoar and SYM tell you that you can make it, but you don't have any feel for what running into some sink will do to you. Matt Hi Matt, I'm with you on the SoarPilot. I miss that final glide table. That was a VERY useful feature. I stopped using SoarPilot last year and switched over to Tophat(XCSoar derivative for those who may not know) on the Kobo ereader. The eInk displays beat anything out there for sunlight readability. Tophat is simple and reasonably intuitive. Easiest system so far to set up, both hardware and software. So far it does everything I want. It has the one feature that was missing from SoarPilot - being able to select a waypoint by touching it on the screen. To keep this on topic: iGlide and IOS based soaring software interests me, but until the sunlight readability of screens on the smart phones and tablets (of any OS) get better, I'm gonna stay with my Kobo. |
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