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Talking Varios
On May 19, 7:13*am, John Cochrane
wrote: On May 18, 10:06*pm, Steve Koerner wrote: ClearNav designers: Please continue to ignore Cochrane's idea for numeric data by voice. Devices that do that are horridly annoying. *It does not work; voice is painfully slow compared to a glance to the panel and it is disruptive to thinking as the information arrives at the convenience of the machine rather than when the pilot wishes to receive it. Well, to each his own. I don't want to "glance at the panel" any more than absolutely necessary. Glance means look down, refocus, look up, refocus. I want to look OUT especially in a gaggle, but I want to know my average quite often; at least once every turn or two. And hearing an averager say "4 knots" or "4 up" every 20 seconds wouldn't bother me. But surely if this comes to pass there will be a checkbox to turn it on and off or a volume control, so there is no point to arguing about it if you don't like it John Cochrane Agreed. I would also point to the ominous ticking of a Borgelt vario when sinking at more than 5 knots. It seems to me that Mike could offer an optional vario sound of "tic's" when climbing and "toc's" while sinking the frequency of which would indicate the rate. Perhaps each "tic" or "toc" might indicate an altitude change of one meter. It seems to me this would be much less annoying than a screeching vario tone. |
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