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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.


Martin, I have tried this but there is no way to simulate thermalling or flying at altitude in the simulator that I can see. Kind of boring just sitting on the ground. Maybe we need a wiki for the Simulator too.

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 02:35:07 UTC+2, Soartech wrote:
Martin, I have tried this but there is no way to simulate thermalling or flying at altitude in the simulator that I can see. Kind of boring just sitting on the ground. Maybe we need a wiki for the Simulator too.

Have you read the XCSoar manual?
There's a lot of information in it's 170+ pages.
Simulator mode is described on page 22 of the XCSoar manual.
http://max.kellermann.name/download/...oar-manual.pdf

With XCSoar in simulator mode you just drag the glider icon located in the centre of the map to start flying.
Drag it in the direction you want to fly. The drag length is proportional to the airspeed.

Adjust the heading/track by:
- Dragging the glider icon in a direction or
- Using the left/right cursor keys or
- Click on the track info box and adjust the track manually.

Adjust the airspeed by:
- Dragging the glider icon further or
- Click on the airspeed info box and increment/decrement the airspeed.

Adjust the altitude by clicking on the altitude info box and increment or decrement the altitude.

There is even a way to play NMEA data via a TCP port so that XCSoar thinks it is flying or alternatively you can hook it up to a flight simulator like Condor (without needing to use serial cables IIRC).

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:35:04 -0700, Soartech wrote:


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.


Martin, I have tried this but there is no way to simulate thermalling or
flying at altitude in the simulator that I can see. Kind of boring just
sitting on the ground. Maybe we need a wiki for the Simulator too.

Yes, just looked: at XCSoar. Version 6.7 has no Sim controls that I can
find but the option to run in Fly or Sim mode remains on the start up
screen. Then it turns out that half the menu function buttons can't be
clicked but require arrow keys and Enter to select them and you can't
tell until you try which is clickable and which must be keyboarded.

Sorry about giving you a bum steer.

All I can say is that I use LK8000 5.0a, primarily because I prefer its
display layout to that used by XCSoar, but of course ymmv. The LK8000 SIM
menu lets you set flying speed, altitude and turn rate so you can fly a
simulated task. All I can say is tat I'm very surprised that XCSoar 6.7
doesn't.


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Use the mouse as you would use your finger.

On 7/16/2015 5:00 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:35:04 -0700, Soartech wrote:


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.


Martin, I have tried this but there is no way to simulate thermalling or
flying at altitude in the simulator that I can see. Kind of boring just
sitting on the ground. Maybe we need a wiki for the Simulator too.
Yes, just looked: at XCSoar. Version 6.7 has no Sim controls that I can
find but the option to run in Fly or Sim mode remains on the start up
screen. Then it turns out that half the menu function buttons can't be
clicked but require arrow keys and Enter to select them and you can't
tell until you try which is clickable and which must be keyboarded.

Sorry about giving you a bum steer.

All I can say is that I use LK8000 5.0a, primarily because I prefer its
display layout to that used by XCSoar, but of course ymmv. The LK8000 SIM
menu lets you set flying speed, altitude and turn rate so you can fly a
simulated task. All I can say is tat I'm very surprised that XCSoar 6.7
doesn't.



--
Dan Marotta

One of our pilots runs Top Hat on a
Kindle. Looks great in Sunlight!

Vanilla XCSoar on a Nexus 7 I'm not so
sure. Google maps navigation display in
the car can be sunlight challenged.

The Oudie works better on my panel and
just barely squeezes between my 57 mm
airspeed and altimeter.