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"Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome?
One is consistent with a free people and the other requires a police state. Pick one." ~Cool Hardware52
I, alone, am responsible for my health and safety, my actions and inactions.
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" ~Sydney J. Harris
"Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome?
One is consistent with a free people and the other requires a police state. Pick one." ~Cool Hardware52
I, alone, am responsible for my health and safety, my actions and inactions.
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" ~Sydney J. Harris
I did basically the same thing for one of my tech classes, but I made it in excell so all the calculations were done automatically. Well, not all of them, but most of the tedious ones (ie calculating gas used, gas reserve and total gas, etc). It also had deco stops in addition to gas planning.
And it's not completly useless outside of class since it is for RGBM tables, which AFAIK, none of the deco planers use.
I did basically the same thing for one of my tech classes, but I made it in excell so all the calculations were done automatically. Well, not all of them, but most of the tedious ones (ie calculating gas used, gas reserve and total gas, etc). It also had deco stops in addition to gas planning.
And it's not completly useless outside of class since it is for RGBM tables, which AFAIK, none of the deco planers use.
Chris
Yeah, I wanted to do that, but he ixnayed that, too. He wants to see *me* do it, the old-fashioned way, with nothing but a four-function calculator!
It's SO freaking unfair; that is why I have a couple spare HP-15Cs!
"Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome?
One is consistent with a free people and the other requires a police state. Pick one." ~Cool Hardware52
I, alone, am responsible for my health and safety, my actions and inactions.
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" ~Sydney J. Harris
"Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome?
One is consistent with a free people and the other requires a police state. Pick one." ~Cool Hardware52
I, alone, am responsible for my health and safety, my actions and inactions.
"If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?" ~Sydney J. Harris
What are you using for deco tables? I'll be doing my Normoxic class with Dayo Scuba in Orlando, and it's V-Planner all the way, although I'll have to use it to cut tables, and run my X1 in gauge mode during class.
Few comments to get the type of feedback you asked for started:
Even if your bottom gas something extremely hypoxic, what do you need three different travel gases for?
The profile diagram (which is a waste of real estate AFAIC) doesn't match the gas list. There are only spots for 6 stops even though you're listing three deco gases.
The ATA chart is insufficient for the gas list. If you need travel gas or more than one or two deco gases, you're probably deeper than 160'.
I'm not certain what use a single "Ascent Pressure" figure is for gas-switch diving.
It looks like a "Recreational Dive Log" with some oxtox and gas stuff shoehorned in. Problem is, those logs don't really facilitate detailed dive planning. My humble suggestion is to ditch the attempt to make it pretty, and instead to make it functional.
Gases, depths, times, obligation, reserve, turn pressures, total CNS/OTU, etc.. That's what you need to plan a dive. Those things need to be clearly laid out (rows and columns work well) such that they're easy to both use and error check.
The reference charts are nice, but I wouldn't find them particularly useful in this format.
Things like dive leader, leader #, and the aforementioned profile chart just confuse things. Even the CF to PSI references probably don't belong. I'd keep all my references in one place rather than picking and choosing which ones to add to a planning sheet.
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