XCSoar opinion

On Sep 16, 9:24*am, Andres wrote:
I'm getting into XC flying and I would like to get opinions on the use
of XCSoar for navigation. Is it useful, reliable, is it worth using
etc? *Thanks in advance.

It's free. It's well supported. It has more features than I'll ever
use.
Pick up a used PDA on ebay (under $50.00) and a GPS source, and you're
ready for the OLC. If you're going to do any badge flying, bite the
bullet and buy a Certified Flight Recorder (CFR). There are lots of
good units out there, but they're not cheap. Expect to pay $700 -
$950.
Best Regards,
Jim

On Sep 16, 11:23*am, Uncle Fuzzy wrote:
On Sep 16, 9:24*am, Andres wrote:

I'm getting into XC flying and I would like to get opinions on the use
of XCSoar for navigation. Is it useful, reliable, is it worth using
etc? *Thanks in advance.

It's free. *It's well supported. It has more features than I'll ever
use.
Pick up a used PDA on ebay (under $50.00) and a GPS source, and you're
ready for the OLC. *If you're going to do any badge flying, bite the
bullet and buy a Certified Flight Recorder (CFR). *There are lots of
good units out there, but they're not cheap. *Expect to pay $700 -
$950.
Best Regards,
Jim

I've used SoarPilot for some time and really was able to get all the
information I wanted, but the Palm devices that natively support the
code are becoming scarce and I really don't want another layer of code
(TapStyle, Palm OS emulator) on a Pocket PC to deal with.

For this reason I have reviewed SeeYou Mobile (very nice, and you pay
for it) and XCSoar on several PNA devices and found that the XCS team
is really making a marvelous effort to keep XCSoar a top-of-the-line
program.

I've decided to stay with it for the moment as I can't see paying for
the SYM when XCSoar provides me with all the features I need for the
cost of a donation, or even nothing if I feel that way.

Mike

XC Soar Rocks!

On Sep 16, 10:02*pm, Bryce wrote:
XC Soar Rocks!

amen brother...

The latest version, lk8000, does away with all the cumbersome configuring
of boxes and works on a PNA. I picked one up for £35 on e-bay and am very
happy with the result.
Best wishes

JohnR-K

On Sep 17, 4:45*am, John Roche-Kelly
wrote:
The latest version, lk8000, does away with all the cumbersome configuring
of boxes and works on a PNA. I picked one up for £35 on e-bay and am very
happy with the result.
Best wishes

JohnR-K

I looked for a version of lk8000 for the PNA's and was unable to find
one available for download.

Tom

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:20:13 -0700 (PDT), tstock
wrote:


I looked for a version of lk8000 for the PNA's and was unable to find
one available for download.

This website reports some news and anticipates a new release is coming
soon, under a different distribution and name.
http://www.bware.it/xcsoar/

Aldo Cernezzi

On Sep 17, 7:34*pm, cernauta wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:20:13 -0700 (PDT), tstock
wrote:

I looked for a version of lk8000 for the PNA's and was unable to find
one available for download.

This website reports some news and anticipates a new release is coming
soon, under a different distribution and name.http://www.bware.it/xcsoar/

Aldo Cernezzi

This is typical of the frustrations of XCSoar. With apologies to
Abbott and Costello, "Who's on first?"

I have been using SoaringPilot on a Windows Mobile device with
StyleTap quite happily, but wanted to give XCSoar a try but soon found
that finding out how, where, and how was a minefield of frustrations.
Life is too short.

http://www.soaringpilot.com/ works just fine thanks.

Martin