LASTE wind input "locks" the wind output

[Keyser]

Hello,

 

I have neither found another topic about this, nor have I read anything in the manual to lead me to the conclusion that it might be working as intended (though it might be), so here goes:

 

When going to the LASTE page after takeoff to input wind direction and speed on the climb, the current wind direction and speed are indicated in the top right corner of the wind subpage. They keep changing and seem to give a correct readout of the wind parameters. Once I enter the first dataset into the LASTE wind and WNDEDIT subpages and give a direction and speed, the indicator in the top right will, instead of showing the current wind direction and speed, display the numbers I entered. The temperature seems to still keep changing.

Only if I press the right topmost OSB and change the ballistic calculation model mode from "Both" to "None" will the current wind parameters be displayed again. If I set it back to "Both" it will return to showing the last set of numbers I entered into the WNDEDIT subpage.

 

I'm thinking it might be a bug, but I'm not sure. It could be that the numbers in the top right don't actually represent the current wind parameters, but rather the ones that will be fed into the ballistic caluclations upon weapon release (though that in itself is information that is of questionable value to the pilot I'd guess), and they just happen to be the current wind direction and speed if no other input is selected, but are overridden if wind information is entered manually. If this is the case however, is there another way of getting to the current wind parameters instead of changing around the ballistic calculations model mode every time? I might forget to switch it back before pickle and then have all the layered wind correction work be for nothing...

 

Thoughts?

[Felipão]

Keyser,

I noticed the exact same thing a few days ago and created a thread about this. So far nobody has answered me. I think this is a bug.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=89148

[Keyser]

Good point. Sorry, I didn't see that thread before, or I would have posted there.

[Felipão]

I posted a track showing the problem.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=1476561#post1476561

[Gisen]

I think this happens to me as well. it would be nice to have some feedback from the team/ testers

[Megagoth1702]

Bump this.

 

I noticed this as well, really weird that the wind stayed "the same" on all altitudes after I put in the wind data...