[TG] [TG11] Next Release of LightHouse 3

[Tom - Raymarine - Moderator]

Hello jk,

This is somewhat off the topic of the original poster's question - it will help other forum users find answers to their own questions if threads are kept on-topic, so we'd appreciate asking new questions in a new thread in future.

To address your question now though - polars submitted to polars@raymarine.com will be addressed as part of our software release process. Each polar needs to be manually checked and usually modified and standardised before it can be introduced into a coming software release. There's quite a lot of labour involved in this so our Product Management team need to prioritise the polars which seem to address the needs of the larger number of users first. For this reason it's understandable I hope that more popular designs get introduced into our software before the more niche vessel models, and of course we can't divert too much attention away from other software development work to concentrate on polars.
We can't therefore promise a timeline before any particular polars is introduced, or that one-off or small-volume designs will be introduced.

We have in the past had the capability to load custom polars directly into the display in LH2 software. I don't have any information about whether that capability is planned for LH3, but that capability in LH2 was pretty resource-intensive for us to support - many of our users who would like to use polars are not necessarily comfortable and confident on a PC and needed a lot of talking-through which took resources away from offering support in other areas.

Regards,
Tom