On May 23, 1:59*pm, Travis Beach wrote:
I've spent a lot of time looking at the XCSOAR Tactical Glide program. I
am attracted to it partly due to its functionality and he fact that its
FREE...I am running an IPAQ 3955 PPC2002 and a Holux GR-271 Compact Flash
GPS Receiver. I have downloaded XCSOAR 5.14 onto the PDA...I am now
LOST...I live in Va Beach Va and fly out of the Tidewater Soaring Society
at Garner Airfield 3VA8. I need to know what files I will need to
sucessfully run this program...


Travis -

I run XCSOAR and I love it; but it is definitely not the easiest
system to set up...

First you need a terrain file. If you can't find one for your local
area, check out the XC Soar Terrain Generator:
http://xcsoar.dd.com.au/cgi-bin/terrain.pl

Then, go to the Worldwide Turnpoint Exchange and get the proper
Airspace and Turnpoint files:
http://soaringweb.org/TP

To figure out the proper formats and files to get, there's actually a
decent manual for XCSoar you can download and print out he
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x...0.pdf?download

Good luck!

--Noel