Field Genius 04 does not correctly report or adjust traverse. I ran a manually entered simple 3 legged travese and found the following:
Program assumes the initial measured backsight reading is absolute, when reporting precision it ignores this measured distance. On my trial it reported 1/14,374, but including the measured backsight it came out to 1/19,999.
A greater concern is the way the horizontal angles are adjusted. The turned closing angle is held absolute. On my simple traverse, adjustment is applied to the first two turned angles only and not the closing angle.
All measured legs and all turned angles of a traverse are part of that traverse and must be considered when reporting and adjusting.
Please fix it!