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Yes, the 1.20 version I have released yesterday works even on CE CORE 6  
devices. 
And although it was supposed to be installed only by a very limited number  
of betatesters (the core development and alpha testing is 9 people), I was  
surprised to discover that many aeroclubs are just adopting the software for  
all pilots, doing an internal distribution of it under their own  
responsability. 
 
I think this is the very first time something like this is happening. 
 
Paolo 
 
 
 
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On Mar 12, 10:29 am, "Peter Wyld"  wrote: 
 Any chance of a WinCE 6.0 version ?? 
 The reason I ask is that XCSoar 5.2.4. dies on startup with an application 
 error, previous versions just do nothing ! 
 
 
Peter - 
 
Check out the PostFrontal website forums for the LK8000.  The latest 
beta version is working on CE 6.0 devices, AFAIK. 
 
As a longtime XCSoar user (and an IT professional who's seen many 
individual programming efforts fail over the years), I was skeptical 
at first.  However, I have spent the last 2 days intensively reading 
the forums (and the new Manual that was just released) - and I am very 
much impressed with what has been done.  I just joined the test 
program and have spend all of 30 minutes fiddling with the PC/ 
Simulator version. 
 
Flying with LK8000 will require a little bit of an adjustment from 
XCSoar; but after spending a little bit of time with it I am finding 
that most of the changes in the UI are good.  LK8000 sort of assumes 
you'll flip away from the moving map (to the all-text "Infopages"), 
when you want detailed info on things...  At first I found this 
annoying because I like seeing the map 100% of the time; I believe the 
human brain can interpret simple shapes and colors much faster and 
more intuitively than letters and numbers.  But at the same time, the 
data overlays on top of the main map view are more intelligently 
displayed and filtered - so I'm finding that the need to look at 
"Infopages" is less than I anticipated.  The enhancements to land-out 
options and glide calculations (explained at the end of the new 
manual) are certainly very nice! 
 
I should take my first flight with the software in about 2 weeks (I've 
got my commercial license checkride in the interim).  I will try to 
post back here with my impressions, once I've got the software 
actually up in the air in my DG-300! 
 
--Noel 
 
 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		 
			
 
			
			
			
				 
            
			
			
            
            
                
			
			
		 
		
	
	
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