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jpretori / SoaringCoach

Soaring Coach aims to help pilots improve their soaring performance by intelligently analysing IGC files.
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Airspeed calculation Research #37

Open jpretori opened 7 years ago

jpretori commented 7 years ago

What is the most accurate way to get airspeed information given the resources the software will have?

This is a possible blocker for several metrics.

Options identified so far:

  1. Use circling portions of the flight, apply some mathematical analysis and estimate wind speed. Then calculate TAS and IAS from there.
  2. Get the user to input wind speed
  3. Calculate IAS using polar curve and the sink rate