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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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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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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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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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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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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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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? -- martin@ : Martin Gregorie gregorie : Harlow, UK demon : co : Zappa fan & glider pilot uk : |
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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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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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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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