SergZak Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexVista/agree_beta.html Changes made from versions 2.28 to 2.29b BETA: Added battery type selector for improved battery reliability. Added page up and page down capability using zoom in and zoom out on most lists. Improved success rate for large map transfers. Improved display of certain points of interest with new City Navigator maps. Added Jump Master skydiving accessory. Improved accuracy of WAAS EPE. Improvements to the calculator's error handling capabilities. Improvements to map selection of city searches. General improvements to the Altimeter page. Improvements to the display airport runways on certain European maps. Restore defaults on map setup sets map to Land Mode. Improved translations for most languages. General improvements to fix various shutdowns. Quote Link to comment
fig Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Ok, I am dying to know. What is "Added Jump Master skydiving accessory." Any ideas, and do we think this will be added to the V? Even with GPS I am still not jumping out of a safe airplane... Fig Quote Link to comment
SergZak Posted August 21, 2002 Author Share Posted August 21, 2002 quote:Originally posted by fig:Ok, I am dying to know. What is "Added Jump Master skydiving accessory." Any ideas, and do we think this will be added to the V? Fig All I can figure out is that it's used for skydiving and there are quite a few options/settings along with some unknown acronyms like HAHO, HALO, PRP and DIP (sounds like some arcane television settings/features to me ). Since there are no instructions on how to use the thing, I'm not about to take up skydiving to find out/figure it out...and I doubt I will be trying to figure it out by jumping off my second-story roof. As far as adding it to the GPS V, I doubt it since I'm pretty sure it uses the barometric altimeter in some way (which the GPS V doesn't have) Quote Link to comment
SergZak Posted August 21, 2002 Author Share Posted August 21, 2002 quote:Originally posted by fig:Ok, I am dying to know. What is "Added Jump Master skydiving accessory." Any ideas, and do we think this will be added to the V? Fig All I can figure out is that it's used for skydiving and there are quite a few options/settings along with some unknown acronyms like HAHO, HALO, PRP and DIP (sounds like some arcane television settings/features to me ). Since there are no instructions on how to use the thing, I'm not about to take up skydiving to find out/figure it out...and I doubt I will be trying to figure it out by jumping off my second-story roof. As far as adding it to the GPS V, I doubt it since I'm pretty sure it uses the barometric altimeter in some way (which the GPS V doesn't have) Quote Link to comment
+Toyguy Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 I don't skydive either, but I believe the HAHO and HALO acronyms are for High Altitude, High Opening and High Altitude, Low Opening respectively. I think it means they jump from WAAY Up there, and either open high or low. I've heard the military uses Halo because you can't hear the plane overhead but the jumper opens low so there's little drift and/or exposure. Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted August 21, 2002 Share Posted August 21, 2002 Nothing about correcting the time zone bug. I'll test it and see. Downloaded my "favorite" testing file to the Vista, after installing 2.29 beta. The time zone immediately screwed up, when I turned GPS on or off. Back to the drawing board for these guys. Besides, the Jump Master screen is all in English, even with Swedish selected. Since I'm not into that kind of activity, I don't know exactly what they mean, either. Perhaps there is some skydiver around, who can explain? Anders [This message was edited by Anders on August 22, 2002 at 12:41 AM.] [This message was edited by Anders on August 22, 2002 at 12:52 AM.] Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted August 22, 2002 Share Posted August 22, 2002 They've bothered to fix the bug in the altimeter page. Perviously, if you zoomed the horizontal scale, but then abandoned by pressing page, the plot restored to the previous scale setting, but the number in the ruler below the plot stayed at wahtever you zoomed to. Now, that number goes back to the correct value again. Anders Quote Link to comment
+raouljan Posted August 22, 2002 Share Posted August 22, 2002 Remember.... "If de-bugging is the act of removing programatic errors, then the act of their instalation would be programming." Also... "As programatic functionality doubles, induced errors increase exponentially." And last, but not least "In the final analysis of any complex computer system, it has been found that at least 1/3 of designed functionality is either not accesable or un-usable." Quotes are paraphrased and credited to Dykstra, Yordon and S.E.I. Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted August 22, 2002 Share Posted August 22, 2002 Do you think they've read "The Art of Computer Programming" at Garmin's R&D office? Probably not, since they would probably consider the whole task impossible from the beginning, if so. I've probably blown away their mailserver already, with all the comments on 2.29 beta they've received from me alone. Do you all report about what you see, or am I extreme? Errh... I'll rephrase that: Am I very much more extreme than the rest of you? Anders Quote Link to comment
+SecretSpy Posted August 22, 2002 Share Posted August 22, 2002 The line on the map page is still there. I hope they fix that in 2.29(real). LowlyWorm Says Gig 'em Aggies Quote Link to comment
+st_richardson Posted August 23, 2002 Share Posted August 23, 2002 The new battery type selector is nice. It's great to see my NiMH batteries indicating a full charge. Quote Link to comment
+st_richardson Posted August 23, 2002 Share Posted August 23, 2002 After entering my msg twice in error, I discovered the forum would not allow me to delete the msg. Pls ignore the first msg. Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted August 27, 2002 Share Posted August 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by st_richardson:After entering my msg twice in error, I discovered the forum would not allow me to delete the msg. Pls ignore the first msg. You only want to increse your "number of posts"... Anders Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted August 27, 2002 Share Posted August 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by st_richardson:After entering my msg twice in error, I discovered the forum would not allow me to delete the msg. Pls ignore the first msg. You only want to increse your "number of posts"... Anders Quote Link to comment
+st_richardson Posted August 27, 2002 Share Posted August 27, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Anders:Nothing about correcting the time zone bug. I'll test it and see. Downloaded my "favorite" testing file to the Vista, after installing 2.29 beta. The time zone immediately screwed up, when I turned GPS on or off. Back to the drawing board for these guys.... It happens to me when I go to satellite page and select “Use with GPS off” before I get a lock. (I first noticed this when I was inside and couldn’t get a lock.) Even selecting “Use with GPS on” after that it leaves me in the wrong time zone. I have to turn the unit off and back on for it to correct the time zone. It seems to just pick the first zone on the list when it doesn’t get a lock. Since there are times when one would want to use the unit in GPS off mode, I think it would be better if it used the last known zone rather than guessing. Quote Link to comment
+Nocturnal Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 quote:Improvements to the display airport runways on certain European maps. Yep! I can now see the runways of CPH (Copenhagen Airport). Quote Link to comment
+apersson850 Posted September 4, 2002 Share Posted September 4, 2002 I've noticed before that they looked rather cruel, but I haven't checked since this last release. Anders Quote Link to comment
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