XCSoar and Wind

On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 12:50:31 PM UTC-8, Ramy wrote:
with pre 6.8 I simply unselected the "use external wind" whenever I wanted the set the wind manually. It worked well. I am hoping there is a way to achieve the same in 6.8 - having the ability to easily switch between external to manual wind. Without this I am better off with 6.7.

Ramy

This reminds me of sitting around listening to Airbus and Boeing pilots debate the flight laws of their software. It's not as entertaining though when I think about how opaque some parts of flying have become with the introduction of automation.
Craig

OK, I flew the Sinus today. I could find no way to configure the Streak
to calculate wind based upon circling. I flew for 1.7 hours and had no
wind display until I manually entered what I thought was the wind at
altitude. I determined that by flying upwind/downwind and taking half
the difference between ground speeds as the the wind speed. It's clear
that the internal GPS in my Streak works but there doesn't seem to be a
way to make it display calculated wind.

I wish one of the developers would just tell us how to do it. I can't
find anything in the manual, either.

Frustrated...

On 11/19/2015 1:50 PM, Ramy wrote:
with pre 6.8 I simply unselected the "use external wind" whenever I wanted the set the wind manually. It worked well. I am hoping there is a way to achieve the same in 6.8 - having the ability to easily switch between external to manual wind. Without this I am better off with 6.7.

Ramy

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Dan, 5J

On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 5:58:27 PM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
OK, I flew the Sinus today.* I could find no way to configure the
Streak to calculate wind based upon circling.* I flew for 1.7 hours
and had no wind display until I manually entered what I thought was
the wind at altitude.* I determined that by flying upwind/downwind
and taking half the difference between ground speeds as the the wind
speed.* It's clear that the internal GPS in my Streak works but
there doesn't seem to be a way to make it display calculated wind.



I wish one of the developers would just tell us how to do it.* I
can't find anything in the manual, either.



Frustrated...




On 11/19/2015 1:50 PM, Ramy wrote:



with pre 6.8 I simply unselected the "use external wind" whenever I wanted the set the wind manually. It worked well. I am hoping there is a way to achieve the same in 6.8 - having the ability to easily switch between external to manual wind. Without this I am better off with 6.7.

Ramy





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Dan, 5J

David, thanks for clarifying.
Dan, you can try your luck by posting to the xcsoar forum (link provided earlier in this thread). You may get an answer or you may get burned ;-)

Ramy

On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 2:58:27 AM UTC+1, Dan Marotta wrote:
the wind at altitude.* I determined that by flying upwind/downwind
and taking half the difference between ground speeds as the the wind
speed.

That's also what Circling Wind in XCSoar does.

Roel