"The biggest attraction of XCSoar is its free." Sorry Stuart, but that is an unnecessary put down for many people who developed XCSoar. I use Oudie withSeeYou (fitted to a club glider) and I use XCSoar. I can assure you that the relatively low cost of SeeYou (if you consider the annual cost of maintaining a glider) would not deter me from using it. I use XCSoar because I prefer it.
Cheers Paul On 19 October 2013 06:38, Stuart & Kerri FERGUSON <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> [email protected] >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >> > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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