Thanks, that is helpful.

And for tacking periods (dotted line), what does Expedition assume for Bsp? (upwind VMG? or extra distance due to tacking with upwind targets? or something else?) 

 

Thanks Nick. It looks like you include the expedition '#' as part of the checksum whereas NMEA excludes the initial '$'. 

Follow-up, is there a listing of the channel names against channel id anywhere? I think I can just call GETCHANNELNAME on each of them, but since there are 204 or so, I thought I'd check whether it was already available somewhere.

Though a bit of trial an error, I reproduced it as follows:

1) Completely clean Expedition 11.9.5 install (including clearing out Expedition entries in the windows registry)
2) Select area, Great Circle
3) Enter username/password
4) Update Models
5) Download (without selecting and models) - will come up with the no models selected error
6) Cancel
7) Select area, Great Circle
8) Select Model
9) Download -> Crashes now

To recover from the above - reenter correct username & password and everything starts working again.

Step 5) & 6) from a clean install seem to be the key issues here. (ie: if we don't cancel, but select a model it will work), if you cancel without doing step 5), then when you reopen username/password aren't populated and you need to enter them, so can't go straight to selecting model & download.

A complete edge case problem that hopefully folk will be able to avoid, now that its described.

Nick,

Just a quick, belated, note to say thank you for the 'Optimal Route' weather button. Have only been back for a couple of races, after a season away, but its been a huge help!

As I go through pre-race prep, probably my number one wish right now (maybe even more than having CTS in optimization results - hint hint)...

Could we have Time in the Weather Ribbon default to the last time that it was set, rather than the current time displayed?

Or, even better:

Given there seems to be space for another button next to it, could we have a 'Start' button that sets time to the race start time if set in the optimizer settings, or greyed out if the optimizer settings are to optimize from current time and location.

This way you could at a glance see whether you had that tick box checked correctly and makes it much more straightforward to go to race start time and review the optimizer results/weather, etc. when you are few days away from race start.

Please please please... and thanks!