Alan,
I'll disagree about the pre flight niggles.
Mine is a Club Class aircraft, a B500 and an (using SeeZyou) set up with
aircraft
and location profiles; apart from entering the task of the day it's plug and
play - and
thats what most club pilots want.
The biggest attraction of XCSoar is its free.
Stuart FERGUSON
Phone - 0419 797508
On 19/10/2013, at 7:05, Alan Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to say XCSoar is great. If you own a $100k glider then perhaps
> several more thousand on cockpit instruments is your fancy. In my experience
> they have most of the same niggles: they all need plenty of pre flight work.
>
> I fly whatever the club offers at club rates so the club benefits. I carry a
> $50 Chinese GPS velcro'd to my Jeans. It is now powered by a $50 Kogan USB
> 6600 mah battery. Sometimes I can fit it on a RAM mount powered by a
> cigarette lighter fitting in some club gliders.
>
> XCSoar provides me with heaps of information: wind velocity after 3 orbits,
> long snail trail, last thermal sources, in sector at turn points, very
> accurate final glides, safety heights...... And a multitude of other
> information. The red/green below/about glide marker on the LHS keeps me
> safe when local soaring etc. you can see meant traces on the OLC.
>
> Simple, effective, cheap and mine in any glider.
>
> XCSoar guys, many thanks, please keep it up and open source. Ta...
>
> Alan Wilson
> Canberra for the last 40 years.
>
> Sent from my iPad...... So I know about proprietary software.
>
> On 18 Oct 2013, at 22:46, Paul Bart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would like to support Scott's position. I have run XCSoar on many devices
>> HP 318, Dell Streak, lately on Nexus 7 and Nexus 4., never a problem. On
>> Android even the update take care of themselves. A fantastic project.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On 18 October 2013 16:39, Scott Penrose <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 18/10/2013, at 5:27 PM, Mark Fisher wrote:
>>
>>> When you run XCSoar you accept the niggles of open source. Food for thought.
>>
>> I really have no comment on how XCSoar runs on the Oudie, never seen or done
>> it.
>>
>> But the comment is about out of line for open source. What phone do you use?
>> Is Android more niggly than iOS? Maybe. What about Chrome vs IE? Open Office
>> vs Office? Firefox? List could go on for a few pages in 8 point font.
>>
>> Quality of projects, installation, documentation and usability is not based
>> on whether it is open source or not. Of course there is a lot more open
>> source software, so you get more of all types :-)
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
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