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Old October 4th 10, 03:13 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Max Kellermann
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Default Weather maps on the cockpit PDA?

John Cochrane wrote:
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.


No, we will definitely not make millions from XCSoar. XCSoar is free
software, we work on it in our leisure time. ;-)

If you want that feature in XCSoar, open a ticket for your feature
request in our bug database (http://www.xcsoar.org/trac/). Since
we're doing all that for free, we will not pay a subscription from our
own money - maybe somebody is willing to donate it?

An important question is: how do you get live weather data? Mobile
networks don't work during the flight most of the time.

Max