Hi all! Our Gliding Club is stationed at an International Airport. We get a "Glider Sector" activated as Segregated Airspace when we go flying and share this area with Paratroopers and Ultralights. We have this "mobile Startstelle" a old bus which acts as a minni Tower for all the Traffic in this Segregated Airspace when activated. The whish is to provide some sort of cheap "Radar-Screen" to the "Startleiter" (the person in charge there) to improve his situation awareness of the glider traffic inside the sector. Our Coexistance with all the other Traffic around us would benefit a lot from such a device.
The idea would be to use a spare Flarm and pug it to the PC there at the Startstelle and have a XCSoar like software running that can show the airspace structure and the Flarm traffic in range. for such a "Tower-mode" of xcsoar , one would have to alter the code of xcsoar so that there is no glider shown at the center of the map ( add a switch to Apperance.AircraftSymbol case(off) ), and have xcsoar start in fullscreen pan mode at startup north up automatically, with no buttons and infoboxes visuable. (since a tower defintely does not need any wind and gliderange calculations, in a second improvement step they could be turned off in vavor of a larger screen mode than 1024x768 pix in this mode) i guess that this tower-mode could be usefull for manny small other airfileds and clubs as well. Herwig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user