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Ski Activity Max Speed too low

Andy_ROC
over 4 years ago

I have a Fenix 6 Pro and have been using the Ski activity app for downhill skiing.  The max speed is wrong compared to two other ski gps apps that are running on my phone.  The Garmin always registers low by 20% +.  Such as yesterday my max MPH on the phone based ski apps said 51mph vs Garmin 41. The day before phone ski app said 47 vs Garmin 36.  This is been similar every time skiing.

Anyway I contacted garmin support and they suggested switching from GPS + Glonass to GPS + Galileo.   I found no difference.  

I did run a test yesterday while driving and changing speed from say 40 to 50MPH.  The ski app on the Fenix takes almost 10 seconds to register a change from 40 MPH to 50 MPH, whereas I tried the same test in the Bike Activity App and the similar speed change was updated on the Garmin Fenix in 2 or 3 seconds.  I don't like this. what's going on?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Max speed on ski activities seems to be working fine on my 6x, do you have it set for 1-second recording in the ski activity?

    Also do you have 3d speed and 3d distance turned on or off?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Good question and yes I have recording set to 1 second.  I noticed no change. 

    I just set 3D speed "off" from on at the direction of Garmin today which I will test this weekend.  They said to leave 3D distance on.  They also asked me to do a few runs in MTB mode.  Like I said the speed updates much slower in Ski Mode than it does in Bike Mode as tested in my car.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I spoke to Garmin via their chat and I have a ticket open.  They've requested that while I ski this weekend that I record a few runs in Bike mode besides Ski mode and also run my phone apps (Ski Tracks & We Ski which always agree on top speed) and then send comparison screen shots of top speed. I've also turned "off" 3D speed at their request and will be part of the test this weekend.  More to come.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Andy_ROC

    With 3D speed off the max speed on the Fenix 6 was still low compared with the two different GPS ski apps running on my phone that both showed the same speed.

    I furnished the following details to Garmin tech support, along with data from the phone apps and they will look up my recorded data from watch for comparison.  They also had me run a test using bike and MTB while I was skiing.  I don't expect them to be exactly the same but come on most of these are way off.  

    Activity Mode Garmin Max speed Phone App Max speed  
    Ski 40.8 47 Max speed for the day
    MTB 34.1 38.9 Bike modes don't have max spd so ref speed graph
    Bike 38 45 Bike modes don't have max spd so ref speed graph
    Ski 35.4 46.1