Deco Planning Software/App

[grantmac]

Nope, I get this:
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My mistake.
It's decobuddy.org

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

BalticDeco is nice but I wonder about long term support.

MultiDeco has a weird UI but it’s all well tested and popular.

 

[boulderjohn]

I'm currently going through ANDP and it's a LOT of good information. I recently completed the section about planning software. The recommendation is V Planner

I was a TDI instructor when they updated the program and pretty much went all in for VPM and V-Planner. That was just before the deep stop rage ran out and people started to run away from VPM. I am curious to see if your instructor is recommending it.

If you are still sold on V-Planner, it is one of the choices in Multi-deco--same author, same company.

 

[Rilelen]

I was a TDI instructor when they updated the program and pretty much went all in for VPM and V-Planner. That was just before the deep stop rage ran out and people started to run away from VPM. I am curious to see if your instructor is recommending it.

If you are still sold on V-Planner, it is one of the choices in Multi-deco--same author, same company.

Very interesting, thanks for the history tidbit! I took ANDP somewhat recently, and my instructor told me to ignore all the deep stop/VPM/V-Planner stuff in the eLearning. I’m familiar with the more current thinking, and was genuinely surprised to see it in there.

 

[boulderjohn]

Very interesting, thanks for the history tidbit! I took ANDP somewhat recently, and my instructor told me to ignore all the deep stop/VPM/V-Planner stuff in the eLearning. I’m familiar with the more current thinking, and was genuinely surprised to see it in there.

I was TDI trained on the older course materials, which were pretty feeble, to be honest. Then I became a TDI instructor. Mark Powell wrote Deco for Divers, which was a big hit. Then TDI came out with its new courses, and much of it came directly out of Deco for Divers.

Mark is very much in the TDI hierarchy. He was also very much sold on V-Planner and VPM. It was only a few years ago that he came out and said that the deep stop philosophy had people stopping too deep.

 

[Tigerpaw]

@boulderjohn V-planner is mentioned in the e-Learning module. I just finished it a few hours ago, so when I finally meet the instructor, I'll make sure and ask his thoughts.
So far based on the responses Vplanner is OUT. For now I'll look into Multi View and possibly the GUE program as well.

 

[Mobulai]

@boulderjohn V-planner is mentioned in the e-Learning module. I just finished it a few hours ago, so when I finally meet the instructor, I'll make sure and ask his thoughts.
So far based on the responses Vplanner is OUT. For now I'll look into Multi View and possibly the GUE program as well.

Well, besides the 1980 ui design, vplanner is „out“ since VPM algorithm is „out“ for a while as a good algo to plan deco stops with..
Be sure to discuss Deep stops (and why they are not favorable nowadays) with your instructor more importantly

 

[Mobulai]

@boulderjohn V-planner is mentioned in the e-Learning module. I just finished it a few hours ago, so when I finally meet the instructor, I'll make sure and ask his thoughts.
So far based on the responses Vplanner is OUT. For now I'll look into Multi View and possibly the GUE program as well.

Talk to your instructor as well (if he doesn’t bring it up already anyway) about ZHL-16 algorithm and gradient factors (GF)

If you wanna jump into it you might wanna give the awesome lecture by @Dr Simon Mitchell listed here a watch for more info about the implications of each of these choices (and why an algo like VPM would unfavorable)

This presentation is worth watching. A bit old now, but I’m not aware of anything contradictory yet.

 

[SmashMonkey]

TDI's course materials are outdated. It discusses V-Planner and hasn't really caught up to the 2011 NEDU study that drove a stake into deep stops/bubble model/VPM. I use MultiDeco for Android. The UI is a bit old and clunky but it works OK. Both V-Planner and MultiDeco are by HHS Software/Ross Hemingway. If you have iOS some of my tech buddies use Baltic Deco Planner.

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

@boulderjohn … and possibly the GUE program as well.

GUE DecoPlanner is OK but nothing special in the desktop version. It’s pretty clunky on mobile - lots of baked in GUE assumptions (fine) but also UI that makes it very easy to make a mistake.

. I use MultiDeco for Android. The UI is a bit old and clunky but it works OK. Both V-Planner and MultiDeco are by HHS Software/Ross Hemingway.

The author of MultiDeco is/was internet-famous for pushing VPM with some really strange theories when most people moved to Buhlman. But money is money so MultiDeco runs Buhlman (through an external library ).

Decompression planners are a really niche area, none of them is perfect.