XCsoar 6.2.6 Question

On Friday, March 16, 2012 4:09:25 AM UTC-7, T8 wrote:
On Mar 16, 5:16*am, Tobias Bieniek
wrote:
Am Freitag, 16. März 2012 03:11:43 UTC+1 schrieb Karl Kunz:

I have been playing with XCsoar 6.2.6 entering a racing task and cannot get it to display the "ARM START" prompt mentioned in the manual. I have a cylinder start - some waypoints-cylinder finish. What am I missing?

Hi Karl, while some of us read RAS regularly it is indeed to ask these questions directly on the XCSoar forum (http://www.xcsoar.org/forum/) or mailing list (http://www.xcsoar.org/discover/mailinglist.html).

If I remember correctly arming the start for racing tasks isn't needed anymore. Unfortunatley our manual is slightly outdated in some parts... Feel free to help if you have a bit of time

That's right, arming is no longer necessary. Best way to get familiar
with XCS is by playing back an igc file. Load all the terrain,
waypoint and task information exactly as you would have for the flight
in question, then use the playback function (config/config/playback).
igc file needs to be somewhere in \XCSoardata (you can put
subdirectories in here, eg flights, navpoints, terrain, etc.).

-Evan Ludeman / T8

If arming is no longer required, what is the logic in determining the start.. I am thinking of the case of climbing close to the start cylinder where you may traverse the cylinder several times before actually proceeding on course. Does XCsoar just keep restarting each time you leave the cylinder?

On Mar 16, 10:26*am, Karl Kunz wrote:
On Friday, March 16, 2012 4:09:25 AM UTC-7, T8 wrote:
On Mar 16, 5:16*am, Tobias Bieniek
wrote:
Am Freitag, 16. März 2012 03:11:43 UTC+1 schrieb Karl Kunz:

I have been playing with XCsoar 6.2.6 entering a racing task and cannot get it to display the "ARM START" prompt mentioned in the manual. I have a cylinder start - some waypoints-cylinder finish. What am I missing?

Hi Karl, while some of us read RAS regularly it is indeed to ask these questions directly on the XCSoar forum (http://www.xcsoar.org/forum/) or mailing list (http://www.xcsoar.org/discover/mailinglist.html).

If I remember correctly arming the start for racing tasks isn't needed anymore. Unfortunatley our manual is slightly outdated in some parts... Feel free to help if you have a bit of time

That's right, arming is no longer necessary. *Best way to get familiar
with XCS is by playing back an igc file. *Load all the terrain,
waypoint and task information exactly as you would have for the flight
in question, then use the playback function (config/config/playback).
igc file needs to be somewhere in \XCSoardata (you can put
subdirectories in here, eg flights, navpoints, terrain, etc.).

-Evan Ludeman / T8

If arming is no longer required, what is the logic in determining the start. I am thinking of the case of climbing close to the start cylinder where you may traverse the cylinder several times before actually proceeding on course. Does XCsoar just keep restarting each time you leave the cylinder?

Yes. The (re)start is only inhibited if you are navigating to the 2nd
turn, or later.

The only thing that XCS doesn't do perfectly (for US rules) at the
moment is the fringe case where you exit the cylinder top, glide back
into the cylinder and exit the side 2 minutes later. XCS will give
you a restart at the edge that WinScore won't (you are scored from
your last penalty free start). This should be addressed in 6.4.

T8