WinPilot Themal marker

[Peter[_5_]]

I am using WinPilot Advanced and wondered if it is possible to mark a thermal
waypoint on the fly. Reason I ask is that in a recent contest I flew through a
good thermal a few miles from the next turnpoint. I made the turnpoint and
thought I had flown back to where the lift was. Checking my igc file I see I
was a long way off. If I could have marked the good spot (blue thermal) before
hitting the TP I might not have ended up in a paddock.

I know about the Thermal database feature but I want something like the "Man
Overboard" feature on some Garmin type GPS units.

[Tim Taylor]

On Dec 2, 9:39 pm, (Peter) wrote:
> I am using WinPilot Advanced and wondered if it is possible to mark a thermal
> waypoint on the fly. Reason I ask is that in a recent contest I flew through a
> good thermal a few miles from the next turnpoint. I made the turnpoint and
> thought I had flown back to where the lift was. Checking my igc file I see I
> was a long way off. If I could have marked the good spot (blue thermal) before
> hitting the TP I might not have ended up in a paddock.
>
> I know about the Thermal database feature but I want something like the "Man
> Overboard" feature on some Garmin type GPS units.

Peter,

Not sure in advanced if there is function that will work. Do you have
your Trace function "ON"? That will at least get you back to the
track you came into the TP on. In Pro I use the trace function with
the lift dots. I just do a pull in the lift as I go through and it
leaves a nice magenta dot to go back to. Without the function Pro
lift dots you can at least do one 360 with the trace function on or
even an S turn should be enough to mark the spot.

My Colibri has the mark event button so I can hit that as well to get
me back to a specific point in a flight.

I find the Trace with lift dots one of the features I use very often
in WinPilot Pro. I have often done what you are talking about on an
into the wind turnpoint.

[P. Corbett]

Peter

In WinPilot Advanced, go to MENU/EDIT. From there, you can assign MARK
POSITION to one of the front buttons.

Paul





Peter wrote:
> I am using WinPilot Advanced and wondered if it is possible to mark a thermal
> waypoint on the fly. Reason I ask is that in a recent contest I flew through a
> good thermal a few miles from the next turnpoint. I made the turnpoint and
> thought I had flown back to where the lift was. Checking my igc file I see I
> was a long way off. If I could have marked the good spot (blue thermal) before
> hitting the TP I might not have ended up in a paddock.
>
> I know about the Thermal database feature but I want something like the "Man
> Overboard" feature on some Garmin type GPS units.
>

[Peter[_5_]]

Thank you very much guys. That is just what I was after. Tried it in Sim mode
and it looks great. Now if I could just read that screen a bit easier my
problems would be halved :-)

In article >,
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>
>Peter
>
>In WinPilot Advanced, go to MENU/EDIT. From there, you can assign MARK
>POSITION to one of the front buttons.
>
>Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>Peter wrote:
>> I am using WinPilot Advanced and wondered if it is possible to mark a
thermal
>> waypoint on the fly. Reason I ask is that in a recent contest I flew
through a
>> good thermal a few miles from the next turnpoint. I made the turnpoint and
>> thought I had flown back to where the lift was. Checking my igc file I see
I
>> was a long way off. If I could have marked the good spot (blue thermal)
before
>> hitting the TP I might not have ended up in a paddock.
>>
>> I know about the Thermal database feature but I want something like the
"Man
>> Overboard" feature on some Garmin type GPS units.
>>

[Richard[_1_]]

On Dec 2, 8:39 pm, (Peter) wrote:
> I am using WinPilot Advanced and wondered if it is possible to mark a thermal
> waypoint on the fly. Reason I ask is that in a recent contest I flew through a
> good thermal a few miles from the next turnpoint. I made the turnpoint and
> thought I had flown back to where the lift was. Checking my igc file I see I
> was a long way off. If I could have marked the good spot (blue thermal) before
> hitting the TP I might not have ended up in a paddock.
>
> I know about the Thermal database feature but I want something like the "Man
> Overboard" feature on some Garmin type GPS units.

Peter,

The trace function in ADV will trace your track. If you have an
especially good thermal that you want to mark assign one of the front
buttons to the Mark POSition. This will put a O on your trace
track.

It will also put an O on the screen if the trace is OFF.

A button or menu item can be assigned by starting the SIM Go Menu
touch edit at the lower left, then the button below and select the
function from the drop down box. The four buttons below designate the
buttons on the front of the ipaq.

Thanks ,

Richard
www.craggyaero.com