March 8, 2007 01:12
Quote:No plans to add calculations/adjustments for currents because the data for currents is not accurate enough for any given geo-referenced location at any given time. While its useful for planning, the data is not accurate enough for real-time generation of tacking angles.
You're right when saying that current data isn't accurate enough, but I think it's would be still very useful to have to planning. Especially here in Europe the Northsea and the UK-French Channel do have very strong currents (> 7 knots). It would be very useful to have estimates as to which strengths the currents are at a given time at different waypoints.
Normally I do the calculations by hand using the recent almanacs, but as you say for planning it would be very helpful to have it integrated in MacENC/GPSNavX.
Regards,
Manou