I have been using Vplanner to plan my dives but most of my buddies use Zplanner so I decided to download a try a copy. ZPlanner looks very similar to VPlanner. Is VPlanner just the commercial version?
I've run scenarios and discovered that Zplanner using 30% conservatism (add 30% to all deco stop times) gives results very similar to Vplanner on nominal (0%) conservatism.
Vplanner also gives many short, deep stops of about 1 minute each, beginning at about 28 meters. Is this just to document an appropriately slow ascent rate? I cut all tables with the Deep Stop feature turned off with both programs.
I've run scenarios and discovered that Zplanner using 30% conservatism (add 30% to all deco stop times) gives results very similar to Vplanner on nominal (0%) conservatism.
Vplanner also gives many short, deep stops of about 1 minute each, beginning at about 28 meters. Is this just to document an appropriately slow ascent rate? I cut all tables with the Deep Stop feature turned off with both programs.