XCSoar is a tactical glide computer originally developed for the Pocket PC platform. In 2005, the originally commercial software was given to the open-source community for further development and has constantly been improved since. It is now a multi-platform application that currently runs on Windows, Windows Mobile, Unix and even Android devices.

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XCSoar 6.3.3 released!
( 5. May 2012 by Turbo)

Hi everyone!

Another week, another release. This new version fixes a few bugs that came up lately and tries to improve two known problems.

First of all we hopefully reduced the risk of XCSoar getting killed by the Android Activity Manager. And the new vario filtering that was introduced in XCSoar 6.3.2 was also rewritten and hopefully works even better now. Please give us feedback on those two items!

Besides these two there were several bugs fixed. In some cases XCSoar crashed on Android because it had too many network failures when trying to use the live tracking functionality. Another...

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Highlights of XCSoar's interface

  • Moving Map

    Moving Map
    The primary display, easily configurable to provide the desired level of detail.

  • Terrain Display

    Terrain Display
    Terrain and Topology data from all over the world can be displayed on the moving map.

  • FLARM Integration

    FLARM Integration
    All received FLARM traffic is displayed on the map and on the inset radar screen. (including climb speed)

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