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Old May 24th 19, 03:54 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default LXNAV S100 calibration and firmware question

Put a Linux like Ubuntu on your PC. Fast, stable, secure, and free.

On 5/24/19 8:35 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
Is there an Apple/Mac simulator that runs on a PC?

On 5/24/2019 6:19 AM, Jonathan St. Cloud wrote:
On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 12:03:44 AM UTC-7, Darryl Ramm wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 8:09:32 PM UTC-7, Richard Pfiffner wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 2:55:12 PM UTC-7, jp wrote:
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 at 1:15:26 PM UTC-7, vtcyclist wrote:
Ron.Â* Thanks for the suggestion.Â* At the top of Craggy’s LXNAV
page is the warning not to download LXNAV files with an Apple
product.Â* That solves the firmware problem.
Glad that worked for you.Â* I've downloaded LXNAV files to my Apple
MacBookPro many times and they always worked for me.Â* Anyway,
whatever works for you is what is important.
Almost every time some one calls about a firmware problem with LXNAV
& PowerFlarm it is because they tried to download with an Apple
Computer or and Apple computer with a Windows emulator.

Richard
www.craggyaero.com
And the new PowerFLARM 6.60 firmware fixes that mac compatibility
issue, but the irony is folks are having trouble upgrading to that
using a Mac :-)

For now with a Mac you can manually remove the unneeded hidden files
that the Mac is putting on the USB stick, they are throwbacks to old
Mac compatibility resource fork crap. Deleting the hidden files
affects nothing, just makes the FLARM update work. Easiest way is to
use the Terminal.app on the Mac to find and remove any ._filename.ext
hidden files (e.g. ls ._* to see them). If needed find a kid who
knows UNIX/linux to help you, take then for a glider ride in return.

I am not as versed in electrons as most engineers on this site, so
what I am saying is more visceral.Â* I have been a Mac user since 1984,
with just a few brief virus, trojan, and ransom filled forays into the
PC world.Â* When I got back into gliding after a 15 year hiatus, the
instruments and software had developed to the Piont I now needed to
access the data.Â* Thought about using the Mac, but then for with
little research I purchased a Levono 900 used for $400.Â* Macs are
expensive and I didn't want to expose it to the desires and diseases
of the other side of the tracks