Yep, I saw that excursion on Skylines.aero.Â* I just hope TSA did not
notice... =-OÂ* That and the FAA.Â* They might not have liked my climb to
FL1600, though I was well above Class A airspace!Â* Tell Perlan to give
it up.

On 5/24/2019 11:29 AM, kinsell wrote:
I buy a Windoze laptop and set it up to dual boot Linux and Windoze.Â*
I spend well under 1% of my time on Windoze doing stuff that has no
practical solution on Linux.

You can also use virtual machines to run both systems on one computer,
but those have some limitations.

Happened to just look at your May 4 flight on a free viewer that runs
on anything with Javascript.Â* Showed an interesting excursion into
Mexico at 160K feet, along with many dozens of GPS altitude dropouts.Â*
So much more info than what you get from the OLC thumbnail graphs.

https://alistairmgreen.github.io/jsigc/

-Dave




On 5/24/19 9:29 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
I've tried that and liked it, but there are a few things I need to do
that I can't seem to do with Ubuntu.Â* I'm sure there are ways, but
I'm and old dog and these new tricks take too much time to learn...

I have a cheap little windows laptop that I keep in the hangar and,
trying to improve its performance, I managed to turn it into a door
stop.Â* I only recovered it by installing Ubuntu first and then
downloading a windows iso file.

On 5/24/2019 8:54 AM, kinsell wrote:
Put a Linux like Ubuntu on your PC. Fast, stable, secure, and free.

On 5/24/19 8:35 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
Is there an Apple/Mac simulator that runs on a PC?

On 5/24/2019 6:19 AM, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 12:03:44 AM UTC-7, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 8:09:32 PM UTC-7, Richard Pfiffner
wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 2:55:12 PM UTC-7, jp wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 1:15:26 PM UTC-7, vtcyclist wrote:
Ron.Â* Thanks for the suggestion.Â* At the top of Craggy’s LXNAV
page is the warning not to download LXNAV files with an Apple
product.Â* That solves the firmware problem.
Glad that worked for you.Â* I've downloaded LXNAV files to my
Apple MacBookPro many times and they always worked for me.
Anyway, whatever works for you is what is important.
Almost every time some one calls about a firmware problem with
LXNAV & PowerFlarm it is because they tried to download with an
Apple Computer or and Apple computer with a Windows emulator.

Richard
www.craggyaero.com
And the new PowerFLARM 6.60 firmware fixes that mac compatibility
issue, but the irony is folks are having trouble upgrading to
that using a Mac :-)

For now with a Mac you can manually remove the unneeded hidden
files that the Mac is putting on the USB stick, they are
throwbacks to old Mac compatibility resource fork crap. Deleting
the hidden files affects nothing, just makes the FLARM update
work. Easiest way is to use the Terminal.app on the Mac to find
and remove any ._filename.ext hidden files (e.g. ls ._* to see
them). If needed find a kid who knows UNIX/linux to help you,
take then for a glider ride in return.
I am not as versed in electrons as most engineers on this site, so
what I am saying is more visceral.Â* I have been a Mac user since
1984, with just a few brief virus, trojan, and ransom filled
forays into the PC world.Â* When I got back into gliding after a 15
year hiatus, the instruments and software had developed to the
Piont I now needed to access the data. Thought about using the
Mac, but then for with little research I purchased a Levono 900
used for $400. Macs are expensive and I didn't want to expose it
to the desires and diseases of the other side of the tracks





--
Dan, 5J