The Unofficial XCSoar Manual

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XCSoar is a tactical glide computer for the Pocket PC operating system.

XCSoar 5.0 Stable has been released! See Install and Download for installation, Features and Version 5.0 for changes. Have a look at some of the Screen shots and video Tutorials.

This is a major breakthrough and a very exciting release. Improvements have been made in the features, stability, performance, usability, manual, language interfaces, configurability and more. XCSoar has gone though thorough testing and has a team of developers, users and testers working on it on a daily basis.

The latest stable version of XCSoar is 5.1.6.

Would you like to submit your XCSoar IGC files to OLC? - Sign the Petition

See also:

• Tutorials - See the video tutorials
• Install
• Download Get the latest stable version 5.1.4
• What has changed
• Terrain generator for making custom maps

Contents 1 Documentation 2 Compatibility 3 Open Source 4 The WIKI 5 The Future

Documentation

• About XCSoar
• Features
• Download XCSoar
• Installation Instructions for Windows, Linux, Mac and more
• Setup

The official manual for XCSoar 5.1.2 is available here. This describes many features available with older versions of XCSoar.

Older documentation, relating to v4.5

• Settings, Quick starter guides
• Documentation online (old, relates to 4.5 series)

Compatibility

There are currently releases of XCSoar for:

• Pocket PC 2000 / 2002
• Windows Mobile 2003 / 2003SE / 5.0
• Windows PC
• Triadis Engineering's Altair glide computer

If you don't know what operating system your PDA uses, this may help.

Open Source

XCSoar is free software according to the GNU Public Licence. As such, users are free to download the software as binaries and as source code, and user input is encouraged.

The XCSoar SourceForge project page allows anyone to contribute. Users can also:

• Bugs - to report bugs
• Bugs - to report a feature request (select Enhancement when creating a new entry)

An overview of features under development is available here.

See News for new information and features.

• Mailing Lists exist for users and developers.

The WIKI

This WIKI is now ready for public release. A few more changes, images uploaded and a few other mods are needed, and any help would be greatly appreciated. (Request edit access)

For now see:

• List of all pages (users will use sidebar and browsing rather than this).
• Rules on editing this WIKI for XCSoar

The Future

• Road Map discusses what is on and when