XCSoar or LK8000?

On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:54:09 +0000, David Salmon wrote:

Just like the previous thread, this is very much a matter of personal
taste. I go back with XCSoar to when it was first brought out by a
group in the UK, then a bit later by the Australian headed group. I
changed to LK8000 when it came out, because it was designed for the
better visible car navigators.
I keep up with XCSoar developments, but so far have seen nothing to make
me consider changing back, I much prefer the interface, and range of
features in LK8000.
Whilst it is fair to say that LK8000 was initially developed by one man,
who had been a developer with XCSoar, this did result in very rapid
development, the best committee being that consisting of one member.
Paolo has though, gathered an international group of other developers
and testers. He also was, and still is, very quick to react to
suggestions and problems, sometimes in hours, I don't know when he
sleeps!
The gliding community owes a big debt of gratitude to both these groups,
who have provided us with two fantastic navigation programs, and both
are free.
Dave

Dave's experience with these two programs, views on LK8000 vs. XCSoar and
reasons for preferring LK8000 are very similar to my own position.

I'm an XC pilot rather than a racer and use my PNA as a navigation tool,
final glide computer and wind info source. I get the rest, i.e. climb
rates and STF from my vario and ignore what the PNA has to say about
those subjects. I would use my SDI C4 for final glide and wind if I
could get NMEA sentences including those dealing with the current task
out of the PNA, but its only a cheap Binatone and doesn't do outputs.

I prefer having the maximum map space on the PNA, so prefer LK8000's
ability to overlay information over the map to XCSoar's use of infoboxes.


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