On Jan 3, 4:47*pm, Westbender wrote:

I found an Android app for soaring called "gaggle". I have not used it
nor had a chance to play with it much. Might be worth a look.

Gaggle seems mostly geared to hang gliding pilots, and seems to depend
on being connected to the cell networks to continually download google
maps. Still, worth a shot to play around with!

Much more interesting, from the same folks, is the "GeoSMS" app, which
will send out text messages with your coordinates, similar to SPOT,
but over cell networks instead of satellites. It will receive a text
message from a SPOT device, and plot out directions -- so it seems an
ideal app for retreive crews of pilots with SPOT devices. It might
not be a full SPOT replacement, as it requires cell connectivity
instead of satellite, only sends messages when told (not every 10min),
and only goes to your contact instead of to SAR.

I'd be delighted, though, if XCSoar and Cumulus could support a once-
per-10min location update via Yahoo Fire Eagle, or even by SMS to
twitter.