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Using an Android Phone as a GPS logger - ie the really poor gliderpilots GPS!!!!!
Hi Everyone,
Logged my 1st OLC flight yesterday from my Android phone which I thought was quite cool ... havent in the past ever got around to having a personal GPS logger or PDA, just used the club ones including the hassle of downloading from a Cambridge with a RS232 serial port .. yuk especially when your old laptop dies..... For anyone interested just downloaded XCSoar (which seems to have a problem at the moment with the logging component but otherwise generally works okay - good work guys getting it onto android) and the Hang gliding software 'Gaggle' from the Android Market. Gaggle created a good trace which was savable in IGC format and simply emailed the file to myself and uploaded into OLC.... To get better phone battery performance attached a $10 solar battery pack which had 2 Lithium AA batteries attached by USB - mini USB ... that gave a 4.5 hr GPS and moving map battery life on a previous flight which seems to suffice. Phone was pretty useless in full sunlight for seeing too much but all up was pretty pleased with the result using standard phone ... Anyrate maybe a simple solution that allows anyone with a cheap Android phone to put a flight in OLC without any dedicated equipment apart from their phone..... doesn't compare with a full glider GPS solution but maybe a way to get more student pilots logging flights on OLC.... thoughts anyone ..... anyone dug up other options in this area .... cheers Ross http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...t=olc&pi=38463 |
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Using an Android Phone as a GPS logger - ie the really poorglider pilots GPS!!!!!
On Jan 20, 12:47*pm, kiwi ross wrote:
Hi Everyone, Logged my 1st OLC flight yesterday from my Android phone which I thought was quite cool ... havent in the past ever got around to having a personal GPS logger or PDA, just used the club ones including the hassle of downloading from a Cambridge with a RS232 serial port .. yuk especially when your old laptop dies..... For anyone interested just downloaded XCSoar (which seems to have a problem at the moment with the logging component but otherwise generally works okay - good work guys getting it onto android) and the Hang gliding software 'Gaggle' from the Android Market. Gaggle created a good trace which was savable in IGC format and simply emailed the file to myself and uploaded into OLC.... To get better phone battery performance attached a $10 solar battery pack which had 2 Lithium AA batteries attached by USB - mini USB ... that gave a 4.5 hr GPS and moving map battery life on a previous flight which seems to suffice. Phone was pretty useless in full sunlight for seeing too much but all up was pretty pleased with the result using standard phone ... Anyrate maybe a simple solution that allows anyone with a cheap Android phone to put a flight in OLC without any dedicated equipment apart from their phone..... doesn't compare with a full glider GPS solution but maybe a way to get more student pilots logging flights on OLC.... thoughts anyone ..... anyone dug up other options in this area .... cheers Ross http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0....html?sp=2011&.... ....and Google just announced they are going to support a barometer function, which will likely be built in to newer phone models. It shouldn't be too difficult to add pressure altitude logging when this becomes available. I see no reason why this shouldn't be acceptable for at least badge and OLC flights. Mike |
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Using an Android Phone as a GPS logger - ie the really poorglider pilots GPS!!!!!
On Jan 20, 2:47*pm, kiwi ross wrote:
Hi Everyone, Logged my 1st OLC flight yesterday from my Android phone which I thought was quite cool ... havent in the past ever got around to having a personal GPS logger or PDA, just used the club ones including the hassle of downloading from a Cambridge with a RS232 serial port .. yuk especially when your old laptop dies..... For anyone interested just downloaded XCSoar (which seems to have a problem at the moment with the logging component but otherwise generally works okay - good work guys getting it onto android) and the Hang gliding software 'Gaggle' from the Android Market. Gaggle created a good trace which was savable in IGC format and simply emailed the file to myself and uploaded into OLC.... To get better phone battery performance attached a $10 solar battery pack which had 2 Lithium AA batteries attached by USB - mini USB ... that gave a 4.5 hr GPS and moving map battery life on a previous flight which seems to suffice. Phone was pretty useless in full sunlight for seeing too much but all up was pretty pleased with the result using standard phone ... Anyrate maybe a simple solution that allows anyone with a cheap Android phone to put a flight in OLC without any dedicated equipment apart from their phone..... doesn't compare with a full glider GPS solution but maybe a way to get more student pilots logging flights on OLC.... thoughts anyone ..... anyone dug up other options in this area .... cheers Ross http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0....html?sp=2011&.... - At one point of your flight logged as low as -325 meters below the the take off point... |
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Using an Android Phone as a GPS logger - ie the really poor glider pilots GPS!!!!!
kiwi ross wrote:
For anyone interested just downloaded XCSoar (which seems to have a problem at the moment with the logging component I can't find your bug report. Bugs don't get fixed unless somebody reports it to our bug database. http://www.xcsoar.org/trac/newticket Btw. XCSoar is OLC approved, even when used without pressure altitude. Max |
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