Do everyone a favour and spend $10 on a suction mount. It horrifies me to think that glider pilots are staring at their legs during a flight
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Wilson Sent: Saturday, 19 October 2013 7:06 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Cc: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Club vario-continued 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
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