Arrival time at Goal: shows the estimated arrival time at goal flying at the speed to fly along
the optimised route. If you still need gaining altitude to glide to goal, C-Pilot PRO takes into
account the additional time needed to climb this excess altitude at the measured average
climb rate.
Time at ESS: shows the arrival time at End of Speed Session. It is useful most of all in
Conical ESS to verify if staying in a thermal or flying at a determinate speed shortens or not
the arrival time.
Start-pylon data
dT start: shows – in seconds – how early (or late) you will arrive at the start pylon gliding
from where you are at maximum glide ratio with respect to the ground (this also holds if you
are inside the cylinder). This parameter is extremely useful while waiting for the opening of
the start window. When it shows zero (an acoustic alarm will warn you), you will arrive at the
start cylinder exactly when the window opens. When calculating dT start, C-Pilot PRO takes
into account any waypoint that has to be validated before the start pylon. The arrival time to
the start pylon is determined considering the optimised route. Data shown by this parameter
depends on the task type:
Race to goal: dT start refers to the start open time. This is indicated by the symbol OP;
Elapsed time: dT start refers to the start close time. In this kind of tasks it might be
convenient to validate the start pylon after the other pilots: dT start indicates if you can
still make it to the cylinder before it closes. This is indicated by the symbol CL;
Clock gate: dT start refers to the open time of the next gate. This is indicated by the
symbol k.
dT start (min:sec): similar to the previous item, but the time is expressed in
minutes:seconds.
Time to the opening of the start window: shows a countdown relative to the start-windows
opening time.
Time needed to arrive at the start cylinder: indicates how long you will need to glide to the
start cylinder from your current position.
DT start ruler: graphical representation of the dT start parameter. Each tick in the ruler
corresponds to 10 s. The ticks are not uniformly spaced to allow for maximum readability
when dT start is close to zero, while allowing to show also large values. The value is
indicated by a blue rectangle. If dT start is positive (you would arrive early) the rectangle is
solid filled. If it is negative (you are late) the rectangle is not filled.
Glide to next waypoint
Arrival height above next (max glide ratio): arrival height (with respect to the waypoint
altitude) at the optimised point of the next cylinder, flying at maximum glide ratio. The
symbols on the right of the numeric indicator shows the rate of change of this parameter:
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