dive planner update

[Fabrice Rossi]

Hi,

Le 27/06/2013 15:07, Dirk Hohndel a écrit :
>> But in my experience, in the large majority of the cases people would
>> use a planner, the plan would be something like "Let's plan a 30minute
>> dive at 35m". And I think this should be easy to enter (i.e. require
>> only one click). That's at least how I usually think of my dives, even
>> for shore dives: Go to some depth and stay around there for some amount
>> of time (e.g. until my computer shows x minutes of deco). Then ascend,
>> possibly not at the maximally possible speed but usually I start by
>> going to max depth first (and reasonably fast) and then work up from
>> there. 
> 
> Interesting. What do others think... is that the preferred way to use
> the planner?

In my personal (limited) experience, this is indeed the starting point,
even for tec dives, e.g. let's plan 10 minutes at 100m and see what the
planner says based on those gases. Ultimately, the planner should even
suggest gases based on minimal inputs (number of decos, use of travel
gas, max END, etc.). But even for the basic thing (when you specify your
gases by hand), you need configurable descent and ascent speeds. At last
one of each, but it's much better if you can specify ascent speeds by
depth intervals (e.g., 10m/min for up to the first deep stop, then
6m/min, 3m/min and finally 1m/min).

Just my 2 cents.

Fabrice