Am Donnerstag, den 07.04.2011, 20:39 +0200 schrieb [email protected]: > Moin Herwig, > > are you aware that there already is a PC application which does exaxtly > this?: Show the Flarm traffic around the device on a PC screen on a Google > Maps overlay. All you need is a serial connection by means of a standard > "Loggerauslesekabel". If I dig around a bit, I might even find the > application's name. > I've been discussing this with our club last season, but the ever present > Hauptbedenkenträger argued that it would lead to people responsible only > looking at the screen, not the sky, and thus not detecting traffic not > equipped with flarm. > > Viele Grüße, > Martin Kopplow > ---
Hi Martin! I have been looking arround a little bit as well. i have tested the Butterfly Flarmviewer looked at http://radar.zhaw.ch/ or found a code written in visual basic script running in microsoft access that collects and processes flarm data for a live takeoff and landing time list on the hompage of the club in hohenems. But there is no true open source code available as far as i know that just depicts flarm traffic on a screen. here at our place the "Hauptbedenkenträger" are the the ones on the other side of the airfield in the ATC tower. they see of us glider pilots as a nerdy chaotic unprofessional croud of crazy guys who dare to fly without engines. we are "uncontrollable" and therefore per se a danger to almost everybody. ok i might be exaggerateing a bit, but if they call and after a quick look at the screen you can tell them right away where everybody is, instead of having to radio and wait for everyone to report in their estimated positions in various creative ways would give a faar more professional picture and makes life much easier für everyone involved. all our gliders here at our place are flarm equipped anyway. instead of trying to invent the wheel again i will try to check if its possible to somhow implement a switch in xcsoar that switches off the little plane in the middle of the screen and then one could launch xcsoar into fullscreen mode automatically via the .xci-File and have right what we would need. greets Herwig ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
