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Old September 5th 03, 04:54 PM
tango4
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Default Instrumentation ergonomics

Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian


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Old September 5th 03, 04:57 PM
Simon Waddell
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What about black: solid in lift; dotted in sink?


"tango4" wrote in message
...
Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of

you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian




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Old September 5th 03, 05:38 PM
Bert Willing
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Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

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"tango4" a écrit dans le message de
...
Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of

you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian




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Old September 5th 03, 06:57 PM
Simon Waddell
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For PPL maybe, not necessarily for gliding - I'm living proof as far as UK
and Switzerland is concerned.


"Bert Willing" wrote in
message ...
Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"tango4" a écrit dans le message de
...
Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight

shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when

in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch of

you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow

washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian






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Old September 5th 03, 08:23 PM
tango4
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As long as a bloke can tell blue from green/brown thats fine with me. He can
at least keep things the right way up in the sky!

Does this affliction really stop people from flying gliders in the 'States?

Ian



"Simon Waddell" wrote in message
...
For PPL maybe, not necessarily for gliding - I'm living proof as far as UK
and Switzerland is concerned.


"Bert Willing" wrote in
message ...
Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"tango4" a écrit dans le message de
...
Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight

shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green when

in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch

of
you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow

washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian








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Old September 6th 03, 12:55 AM
BTIZ
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no medical certification required to fly gliders in the "States".. you self
certify as "airworthy"

BT

"tango4" wrote in message
...
As long as a bloke can tell blue from green/brown thats fine with me. He

can
at least keep things the right way up in the sky!

Does this affliction really stop people from flying gliders in the

'States?

Ian



"Simon Waddell" wrote in message
...
For PPL maybe, not necessarily for gliding - I'm living proof as far as

UK
and Switzerland is concerned.


"Bert Willing" wrote in
message ...
Well, Daltionians have quite some problems to get a medical in many
countries, so you might stick to green/red as well :-)

--
Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"


"tango4" a écrit dans le message de
...
Piece of PocketPC based moving map display software. Trace of flight

shows
areas of lift and sink. My first instinct was to make trace green

when
in
the lift and red when in the sink. Not too clever when a whole bunch

of
you
are red/green colourblind!

So, any suggestions on this one? How about blue and yellow? Yellow

washes
out very easily on a sunlit PDA screen.

Ian










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Old September 6th 03, 10:48 AM
Martin Gregorie
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:57:30 +0200, "Simon Waddell"
wrote:

What about black: solid in lift; dotted in sink?

I was going to suggest two widths of black line, but this sounds cool.
Better yet? why not make it configurable with a choice of, say,
red/green, black solid/dotted and red/blue?


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Old September 7th 03, 02:11 AM
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Or how about a trace of pluses for up and minuses for down? No charge
for the suggestion, but I'd take a free piece of hardware for such an
intuitive suggestion. Fred
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Old September 7th 03, 04:07 PM
tango4
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Dots and dashes and plusses and minusses are a pain without doing some
secondary processing on the flight track. In the scales where the trackdots
are laid over one another you can't discern where there was lift and where
there wasn't because the plusses and minuses all bleed together.

I'm leaning towards the following solution, track is laid down in a single
colour and where a 'significant patch' of lift is detected simply pasting a
lift symbol over the trace, the same for sink areas. In the smaller scales
making a selection of plus and minus signs or alternative colours.

Ian


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Old September 7th 03, 11:35 PM
Mike Borgelt
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC), "tango4"
wrote:

Dots and dashes and plusses and minusses are a pain without doing some
secondary processing on the flight track. In the scales where the trackdots
are laid over one another you can't discern where there was lift and where
there wasn't because the plusses and minuses all bleed together.

I'm leaning towards the following solution, track is laid down in a single
colour and where a 'significant patch' of lift is detected simply pasting a
lift symbol over the trace, the same for sink areas. In the smaller scales
making a selection of plus and minus signs or alternative colours.

Ian


If this is intended for use in flight how about deleting that feature
so thata the pilot looks outside more.

Mike Borgelt
 




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