I'd find it easier to comment on your sorting if I understood your objective.
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I'd find it easier to comment on your sorting if I understood your objective.
Is a GF spread of 10 (eg. 70/80) really big enough or is it just a marketing gimmick?
Likewise, is a GF spread of 60 or 69 (eg. 20/89) too much?
I think you should not attach words like “aggressive” or “conservative” to dive plans, and especially to settings. Those words carry meaning to casual readers which isn’t actually there. You can get bent on a conservative plan, it is a matter of probability. Which probability counts as “conservative”?When we discuss gradient factors we tend to define GF-hi in terms of risk, either liberal settings or conservative settings. As for GF-lo, since it dictates the first deco stop we define it in terms of depth, shallow, intermediate or deep. I created a table that defines the ranges for the different settings and I and I sorted the presets in terms of risk and depth. Let me know if you agree with my ranges and or suggest other terminology we can use to define these ranges.
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