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Old September 18th 09, 12:34 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
cernauta
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:20:13 -0700 (PDT), tstock
wrote:


I looked for a version of lk8000 for the PNA's and was unable to find
one available for download.


This website reports some news and anticipates a new release is coming
soon, under a different distribution and name.
http://www.bware.it/xcsoar/

Aldo Cernezzi
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Old September 18th 09, 01:39 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
AGL
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On Sep 17, 7:34*pm, cernauta wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:20:13 -0700 (PDT), tstock
wrote:

I looked for a version of lk8000 for the PNA's and was unable to find
one available for download.


This website reports some news and anticipates a new release is coming
soon, under a different distribution and name.http://www.bware.it/xcsoar/

Aldo Cernezzi


This is typical of the frustrations of XCSoar. With apologies to
Abbott and Costello, "Who's on first?"

I have been using SoaringPilot on a Windows Mobile device with
StyleTap quite happily, but wanted to give XCSoar a try but soon found
that finding out how, where, and how was a minefield of frustrations.
Life is too short.

http://www.soaringpilot.com/ works just fine thanks.

Martin
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Old September 18th 09, 06:16 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Al[_7_]
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On Sep 17, 5:39*pm, AGL wrote:
On Sep 17, 7:34*pm, cernauta wrote:

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:20:13 -0700 (PDT), tstock
wrote:


I looked for a version of lk8000 for the PNA's and was unable to find
one available for download.


This website reports some news and anticipates a new release is coming
soon, under a different distribution and name.http://www.bware.it/xcsoar/


Aldo Cernezzi


This is typical of the frustrations of XCSoar. *With apologies to
Abbott and Costello, "Who's on first?"

I have been using SoaringPilot on a Windows Mobile device with
StyleTap quite happily, but wanted to give XCSoar a try but soon found
that finding out how, where, and how was a minefield of frustrations.
Life is too short.

http://www.soaringpilot.com/works just fine thanks.

Martin


Hmmm looks great compared to XCSOAR.... Not!!!

http://www.soaringpilot.org/dokuwiki...nal_glide3.jpg
Palm OS is so 90's now

XCSOAR is not rocket science... you have to use the installers that
are available on Sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcsoar/files/

Expand the 5.2.4 tab (or the one that corresponds to the version you
want) and click the version that corresponds to your PDA.
Copy the installer onto your PDA and run it from the PDA.

Next add waypoints and terrain for your area by using the process
described at the following:
http://xcsoar.dd.com.au/cgi-bin/terrain.pl

Add the Polar file for your Glider from Winpilot.com:
http://www.winpilot.com/polar.asp

Next play with your new install in your armchair so you are familiar
with the software.
As stated earlier there are options in XCSOAR that a lot of other
software does not have.
When you are happy with your PDA build go fly... enjoy....

LK8000 version is about to be released in Beta version so there is no
download available right now.
An old screen shot with descriptions can be seen here.
http://www.xcmag.com/wp-content/uplo...paraglider.jpg

I have flown with the LK8000 and have been very impressed with it
being drive by a 302 on an IPAQ 3900

Al
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Old September 18th 09, 11:00 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
John Roche-Kelly
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I have been using SoaringPilot on a Windows Mobile device with
StyleTap quite happily, but wanted to give XCSoar a try but soon found
that finding out how, where, and how was a minefield of frustrations.
Life is too short.

http://www.soaringpilot.com/ works just fine thanks.

Martin



I don't see the economics of paying for styletap to run free palm based
software on a windows device.

I want to do the whole thing as cheaply as possible and I can spend the
long winter evenings learning to use LK8000. If I load igc files of
flights flown I can run them in simulation mode to check that the screen
provides the info I want.
Best wishes

JohnR-K
 




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