The Unofficial XCSoar Manual
Features
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Moving map display
- Terrain and topological features
- Terrain shaded by sun direction or lift-generating slope
- Arrival altitude of landable points
- Shows reachable glide footprint
- Autozoom and separate climb/cruise zoom levels
- Orientation can be selected from north-up, track-up, north-up when circling, track-up when circling.
- Markers can be dropped manually or automatically.
- Display of airspace areas.
- Airfield details include Enroute Supplement information and satellite images.
- Quick toggle between fullscreen and instrument/infobox display modes
- Snail trail can be drifted with wind
- Declutter map toggle to display or hide unimportant waypoint and town labels
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Airspace management
- Multiple airspace warning and intrusion detection
- Query of airspace and waypoints by pointing on the map display.
- Display of details of nearest airspace at any time
- Acknowledgement for entire day of individual airspace regions
- Configurable warning/display level for each airspace class
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Display symbology and annunciators
- Wind speed and direction.
- Bearing and optimal cruise track to next waypoint
- Estimated glider heading adjusted for wind
- Flight mode icons (circling, cruise, final glide)
- GPS/FLARM/Logger status icons
- Altitude required to complete task
- Thermal profile display
- Speed command chevrons
- Compass indicator
- Variometer needle with climb trend
- Large selection from 60 items of information displayed in InfoBoxes.
- Separate InfoBox layouts in circling, cruise, final glide flight modes.
- Separate InfoBox layout for auxiliary display mode accessible from any flight mode.
- Display of glider trail, color and thickness scaled to climb rate.
- Dropped markers, thermal markers, markers for nearby aircraft.
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Glide computer
- Calculation of height required around task
- Final glide through terrain and around multiple waypoints
- Final glide adjusted for kinetic energy
- Detection of nearby airspace, recommended vector to exit airspace
- Bugs and ballast settings
- Custom glide polars
- Integration with intelligent variometer
- Auto-MacCready (final glide, or set to climb average)
- Estimated arrival times
- Thermal center estimator
- Wind estimation using circling and zigzag modes
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Task planning and management
- Waypoints sorted by name or distance and direction
- Full support for Assigned Area Tasks, FAI tasks and custom competition rules
- Start rules (max speed, max height AGL), finish rules (min height AGL)
- Allows tasks to be aborted/resumed; in abort mode, the glider is directed to the nearest landing options.
- Task declaration sent to external logger
- OnLine contest optimisation
- Tasks and configuration settings (profiles) transferrable between PC and PDA/Altair
- Waypoint editing
- Automatic, manual and arming of waypoint advance
- Multiple start points
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Analysis and statistics
- Climb statistics, trends
- Wind at altitude
- Glide polar diagram
- Barograph trace, trends
- Task performance
- Convection and cloud forecast
- Status page reports range and bearing to nearest landmark
- OnLine contest performance
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Software IGC logger
- Auto-start on takeoff
- Replay of flights from IGC
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Customisation
- Multiple language support (English, German, Italian, French etc)
- Menu system can be modified or extended
- Buttons can be reassigned to alternate functions
- Glide computer events, button events and external switches can be assigned to trigger functions in the computer or display.
- Play sounds based on glide computer events
- All data formats are public so users can modify or generate their own data files.
- Orientation in landscape or portrait mode
- Custom display themes with fonts, colors, icons
- Multiple pilot/aircraft/site profiles
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External device integration
- Connects to intelligent variometers to receive airdata measurements, and to synchronise MacCready, bugs, ballast and cruise/climb mode settings.
- Instrument calibration and fine tuning
- FLARM radar-like display
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Other features
- TeamCode
- PC version available
