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Ticket #122 (assigned enhancement)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 9 months ago

Wind: compass-assisted wind calc (using nmea-compass)

Reported by: daniel.forst@… Owned by: jwharington
Priority: low Milestone: XCSoar Wishlist
Component: Other Version: 5.0 Stable
Keywords: Cc:

Description (last modified by Turbo) (diff)

hi...

during long straight flights a compass(heading-sysstem)-assisted wind-calc
would be very useful in oder to get a correct wind-indication even if not
circling for a longer time or during mountain-flights where the wind may change
quite often, depending on the topology.
there are compass-heading-systems available that transmit the information to
external devices using nmea-sentences.

e.g. http://www.yachtbits.com/nasa/nmea_compass_sensor.php .

the nmea-datastream could then be multiplexed into the nmea-datastream of the
logger, vario or flarm.

a nmea-multiplexer is available at

http://www.k6-team.de/content/view/62/62/

i'm pretty sure hans or falk from the k6team would assist you if you need any
support concerning the nmea-multiplexer... just drop them a mail... they are
really nice guys a know a lot about this stuff.

if you have any questions, just contact me via email.

keep up the great work.

cheers...

danny

Change History

comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by Turbo

  • Summary changed from compass-assisted wind calc (using nmea-compass) to Wind: compass-assisted wind calc (using nmea-compass)

comment:2 Changed 2 years ago by jwharington

  • Priority changed from high to low
  • Milestone set to XCSoar 6.1 (wishlist)

comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by scottp

  • Owner scottp@… deleted
  • Status changed from new to assigned

comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 2 years ago by jwharington

Useless unless you have an airspeed indicator also corrected to TAS.
Are there any tilt/roll compasses available for aircraft use that aren't part of a full AHRS?

comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 2 years ago by DGFlija

Hi there,
yes, there such devices. Please get in direct contact with me via horst@…. Subject is too heavy and too strubby to discuss that in a ticketting system.

Last edited 2 years ago by DGFlija (previous) (diff)

comment:6 Changed 9 months ago by Turbo

  • Owner set to jwharington
  • Description modified (diff)
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