XCSOAR

I've spent a lot of time looking at the XCSOAR Tactical Glide program. I
am attracted to it partly due to its functionality and he fact that its
FREE...I am running an IPAQ 3955 PPC2002 and a Holux GR-271 Compact Flash
GPS Receiver. I have downloaded XCSOAR 5.14 onto the PDA...I am now
LOST...I live in Va Beach Va and fly out of the Tidewater Soaring Society
at Garner Airfield 3VA8. I need to know what files I will need to
sucessfully run this program...


I assume you have searched the group, Travis?

http://www.nabble.com/xcsoar-user-f3437.html

There are all the answers, you can ask anything!

Bagger

On May 23, 11:16*pm, bagmaker
wrote:
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I've spent a lot of time looking at the XCSOAR Tactical Glide program.
I
am attracted to it partly due to its functionality and he fact that
its
FREE...I am running an IPAQ 3955 PPC2002 and a Holux GR-271 Compact
Flash
GPS Receiver. I have downloaded XCSOAR 5.14 onto the PDA...I am now
LOST...I live in Va Beach Va and fly out of the Tidewater Soaring
Society
at Garner Airfield 3VA8. I need to know what files I will need to
sucessfully run this program...
-

I assume you have searched the group, Travis?

http://www.nabble.com/xcsoar-user-f3437.html

There are all the answers, you can ask anything!

Bagger

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bagmaker

Actually, First you need a waypoint file. Then you can go to
http://xcsoar.dd.com.au/cgi-bin/terrain.pl
and it will generate Terrain (which, btw, almost nobody uses in
'flight' mode).
The documentation for XCSoar beyond version 5.0.0 is spotty. The
Nabble forum will help.
I'm pretty sure on your PDA that at least the waypoint file has to be
in one of the three sub-folders under 'My Documents\XCSoarData\ The
sub-folders are \Config \Persist and \Log. I keep my waypoints,
terrain, etc... in the
\Config folder.
I've been using it for about a year now, and really like it, but have
no point of reference since I haven't tried any other programs (I'm
too cheap!).