XC-Soar PDA weirdness

Hi Brad
The profile save is a bit un-user friendly, I have recently suggested it
be changed.

What happens is that when you shut down, the current profile is saved as a
file called xcsoar registry.prf. If when you open the program again you
select this file when asked, then you should get exactly the same profile
as when you shut down. You can save this with another, more convenient
name by browsing to it on your SD card and re-naming it to whatever you
want, leaving the suffix as prf. If however, you already have another
profile saved and open that instead, you will get whatever that was, not
the changes.

Re the landable fields, go to Config-Setup system page 11 and the 3rd item
down gives a choice of WinPilot or Alternate. Win Pilot should give the
purple dot with the green ring. Incidentally, landable means a waypoint
with an A attribute that is reachable at safety height, nothing to do with
it's surface.

Dave



At 14:50 27 April 2009, Brad wrote:
I have a question regarding XC-Soar and am running it on an iPAQ3850.
I loaded the latest version 5.2.3F.

When I first loaded the program everything worked as advertised,
except I've never seen the landable fields show up as colored dots,
well yesterday for one session they showed up as yellow dots, but not
anymore. Also the Visual Glide feature worked for awhile, and now does
not appear when activated. Also seems that the set up profile I am
constantly resetting does not hold after closing the program.

All in all I am flying with this latest release and am happy with it,
and the above mentioned items are more a curiosity than anything else,
but I am curious if it is my PDA ignorance, or is the program still
somewhat "buggy" I've also heard PDA's can be somewhat tempramental.

Thanks,
Brad