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Old March 16th 12, 11:09 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Evan Ludeman[_4_]
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Default XCsoar 6.2.6 Question

On Mar 16, 5:16*am, Tobias Bieniek
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Am Freitag, 16. März 2012 03:11:43 UTC+1 schrieb Karl Kunz:

I have been playing with XCsoar 6.2.6 entering a racing task and cannot get it to display the "ARM START" prompt mentioned in the manual. I have a cylinder start - some waypoints-cylinder finish. What am I missing?


Hi Karl, while some of us read RAS regularly it is indeed to ask these questions directly on the XCSoar forum (http://www.xcsoar.org/forum/) or mailing list (http://www.xcsoar.org/discover/mailinglist.html).

If I remember correctly arming the start for racing tasks isn't needed anymore. Unfortunatley our manual is slightly outdated in some parts... Feel free to help if you have a bit of time


That's right, arming is no longer necessary. Best way to get familiar
with XCS is by playing back an igc file. Load all the terrain,
waypoint and task information exactly as you would have for the flight
in question, then use the playback function (config/config/playback).
igc file needs to be somewhere in \XCSoardata (you can put
subdirectories in here, eg flights, navpoints, terrain, etc.).

-Evan Ludeman / T8