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Wind instrument - Xwind info too?


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svartbjorn
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The Wind instrument can toggle only between two info steps: Wind information (direction/speed) and HDWIND/TLWIND. It would be very useful to have a 3rd info step: XWIND (cross wind).
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After looking at the two options you presented for view 2, I definitely think your latter proposal (with wind speed without H/T and L/R) is the best one. Duplicated information (H/T and L/R on top of wind arrows) just makes the picture more cluttered. For view 1 the wind vector values are shown as degrees/speed like 219/49, not something like D219/S49. I don't think anybody would like a D219/S49 format. So no H/T L/R prefix makes the two views consistent.

Another interesting observation: for all the other instruments the upper half of the instrument tells the function (GS, DST NXT, ALT etc) and the lower half displays the value. However, on the wind instrument it is opposte: view 1 shows the wind vector in the lower half and the value (direction/speed) in the upper half. And your proposal for view 2 displays the wind arrows in the lower half and the values in the upper half. May be you should swap the upper and lower half such that the function (wind vector in view 1 and wind arrows in view 2) is shown in the upper half, and the values are shown in the lower half?
Edited 3/20/2014 8:19:39 PM by svartbjorn
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svartbjorn - 3/16/2014 8:28:42 PM
Mikernav - 3/16/2014 10:45:25 PM
     Mine Too
srayne - 3/17/2014 10:09:01 AM
svartbjorn - 3/17/2014 11:12:59 AM
Tim Dawson - 3/17/2014 10:44:42 AM
Mikernav - 3/18/2014 6:34:12 PM
srayne - 3/18/2014 7:23:03 PM
svartbjorn - 3/19/2014 8:18:48 AM
Tim Dawson - 3/19/2014 10:39:52 AM
svartbjorn - 3/19/2014 12:35:06 PM
srayne - 3/19/2014 12:51:24 PM
svartbjorn - 3/20/2014 6:31:56 AM
Tim Dawson - 3/20/2014 12:51:19 PM
srayne - 3/20/2014 1:05:53 PM
svartbjorn - 3/20/2014 1:24:21 PM
Tim Dawson - 3/20/2014 5:11:57 PM
srayne - 3/20/2014 5:23:44 PM
svartbjorn - 3/20/2014 8:11:48 PM
Tim Dawson - 3/21/2014 10:46:24 AM
srayne - 3/21/2014 11:32:43 AM
                 Excellent! Thank you!!
svartbjorn - 3/21/2014 12:19:40 PM

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