Moin Herwig, are you aware that there already is a PC application which does exaxtly this?: Show the Flarm traffic around the device on a PC screen on a Google Maps overlay. All you need is a serial connection by means of a standard "Loggerauslesekabel". If I dig around a bit, I might even find the application's name. I've been discussing this with our club last season, but the ever present Hauptbedenkenträger argued that it would lead to people responsible only looking at the screen, not the sky, and thus not detecting traffic not equipped with flarm.
Viele Grüße, Martin Kopplow --- Am 07.04.2011 um 11:38 schrieb Herwig Wagner <wagn...@gmx.net>: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
