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


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