On Oct 4, 12:21*am, Max Kellermann wrote:
Matt Herron Jr. wrote:

That sounds like what I want. *Have you tried it? *What was your
impression?

I'm kind of biased, I'm a XCSoar developer

I don't use that feature. *It may be useful for some, but I don't feel
it's useful for me.

Why don't you just give it a try, it's free!

A number of vendors sell satellite weather systems that feed to PDA
displays. Then you can get real-time visible satellite loop, very
useful for showing cu development, and radar loop -- very useful for
showing the development of thunderstorms. It costs some bit of money
and setup which is why I haven't implemented it -- and it's illegal in
US contests so far.Also, you'd need two PDAs to run programs like this
at the same time. It be lovely if our instrument designers included
a satellite weather feed into the soaring instrument, either as a
separate page or as background. I've been bugging clearnav about this
for a while, perhaps xcsoar wants to be first out of the gate with
it.Obviously, it takes a bit of work, but with the huge market for
soaring instruments, you'll certainly make millions from such a great
product.

John Cochrane