The Unofficial XCSoar Manual
Hardware/Displays
From XCSoar
There are many possible displays. If you test one please add it to this list:
Second Sight
http://www.c1au.com/secondsight.html
Tested on the ground in very bright light conditions, provides a 640x480 screen. Absolutely excellent. This is the style where you look down rather than overlaid, this means changing focus and looking down but I found it way quicker than looking into the cockpit and screen - faster and you can keep your head and eyes practically pointing in the important direction (e.g. a gaggle, ridge).
It plugs directly into a Compact Flash adapter and runs with any Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Mobile 5.
Disadvantage: The only real problem I had was the ability to control the buttons. I use XCSoar with the 4 physical buttons switching between menus, and providing 5 buttons along the bottom (landscape mode) to press within the menu, but it is too hard to drag the cursor and then click with the headsup unit - A solution to this might be to redo my menus to ONLY use the 4 buttons (e.g. same top button to get to menu, but then it changes the other 3 buttons to do the actual event) - this would mean that I do not need to drag on the screen (which is a little slow).
Conclusion: Excellent unit, ready for use right now with XCSoar.
