I would like to say XCSoar is great. If you own a $100k glider then perhaps several more thousand on cockpit instruments is your fancy. In my experience they have most of the same niggles: they all need plenty of pre flight work.
I fly whatever the club offers at club rates so the club benefits. I carry a $50 Chinese GPS velcro'd to my Jeans. It is now powered by a $50 Kogan USB 6600 mah battery. Sometimes I can fit it on a RAM mount powered by a cigarette lighter fitting in some club gliders. XCSoar provides me with heaps of information: wind velocity after 3 orbits, long snail trail, last thermal sources, in sector at turn points, very accurate final glides, safety heights...... And a multitude of other information. The red/green below/about glide marker on the LHS keeps me safe when local soaring etc. you can see meant traces on the OLC. Simple, effective, cheap and mine in any glider. XCSoar guys, many thanks, please keep it up and open source. Ta... Alan Wilson Canberra for the last 40 years. Sent from my iPad...... So I know about proprietary software. > On 18 Oct 2013, at 22:46, Paul Bart <pb2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to support Scott's position. I have run XCSoar on many devices > HP 318, Dell Streak, lately on Nexus 7 and Nexus 4., never a problem. On > Android even the update take care of themselves. A fantastic project. > > Cheers > > Paul > > >> On 18 October 2013 16:39, Scott Penrose <sco...@dd.com.au> wrote: >> >>> On 18/10/2013, at 5:27 PM, Mark Fisher wrote: >>> >>> When you run XCSoar you accept the niggles of open source. Food for thought. >> >> I really have no comment on how XCSoar runs on the Oudie, never seen or done >> it. >> >> But the comment is about out of line for open source. What phone do you use? >> Is Android more niggly than iOS? Maybe. What about Chrome vs IE? Open Office >> vs Office? Firefox? List could go on for a few pages in 8 point font. >> >> Quality of projects, installation, documentation and usability is not based >> on whether it is open source or not. Of course there is a lot more open >> source software, so you get more of all types :-) >> >> Scott >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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