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Old February 6th 17, 02:36 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default Reachable landing sites in iGlide

The amoeba does not shade the terrain map unless you specifically set it
up to do that, and why would you? XCSoar prints a large orange X on the
map where you will land. All of these programs are pretty much the same
and can be configured as the user likes.

On 2/5/2017 9:33 AM, jfitch wrote:
On Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 6:22:07 AM UTC-8, wrote:
Does iGlide show the reachable landing sites in the current McCready setting ?
Oudie changes landing sites color to Green for reachable sites.
In any case, how important is this feature ?
Dan

Yes it does. If set up properly, makeable fields are green, marginal yellow, and unmakeable are red. The arrival altitude will be shown for each. A red dot will be drawn where you will impact intervening terrain. I like the feature, and find it more useful than the amoeba - it does not shade the terrain map, and the arrival altitude puts considerable color on the information.


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Dan, 5J