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SkyDemon for Hot Air Balloon Operation


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Hi folks,
has anyone out there any experience with SkyDemon while flying balloons? Did my first training flight on a hot air balloon yesterday, and was surprised, that the balloon folks dont use any navigation tools like SD. I brought my iPad with SD with me, and it showed, that it was very helpful, since we got very close to a small airfield, and we managed to organize a close flyby. Everything works perfectly, except the logging, since we "never got airborne"...(super slow Groundspeed).
@Tim Dawson: Tim, can you think about adding a feature, that enables SD to log balloon flights, and a feature that allows, to create an "aircraft" that is a balloon?
Appreciate your help and or your comments guys!
Cheers from Germany
Frank

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Perhaps you could get in touch with us directly (via Contact Us page on website) to share the log that hasn't worked well? In my testing, logging should work ok for hot air balloons as long as you start the log manually by logging Off Blocks.
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Tim Dawson - 6/18/2021 1:43:13 PM
Perhaps you could get in touch with us directly (via Contact Us page on website) to share the log that hasn't worked well? In my testing, logging should work ok for hot air balloons as long as you start the log manually by logging Off Blocks.

Correct me please, but isn't there a minimum groundspeed required, that tells the system, that it is airborne? Pushing OFF BLOCKS only will, to my understanding, not start showing the vertical profile, neither will it show breadcrumbs, when the groundspeed is below a certain threshold value. In our case yesterday we flew sometimes at a slow speeds of down to 5 knots. 

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