On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:27:54 -0700, Soartech wrote:

On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 12:32:01 PM UTC-4, chris johnson wrote:
I wish someone would write a soaring book on flight computers. How to
choose one, program, trouble shoot them, use them. Combine book with
YouTube explanations.

Chris,
The easiest, least expensive choice is to use XCSoar on an Android phone
or tablet. That said, I have lots of questions that are not covered well
in the manual and I am forced to either ignore certain features to try
to understand them while flying. A good video tutorial would be really
helpful.

You have another choice as well: run XCSoar in simulator mode at home
while you work out what settings suit you best and see exactly what it
does in a variety of situations.

Don't want to mess up your current configuration? Download the Windows
version and run it on your PC (it also runs just fine under Wine on a
Linux box) and then, if you decide you prefer the configuration you've
set up there, copy it over to the rig you fly with.



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