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10.5 Atmosphere
Wind Speed
Wind V
Wind speed estimated by XCSoar. (Touchscreen/PC only)
Manual adjustment is possible by pressing the up/down cursor
keys to adjust magnitude and left/right cursor keys to adjust
bearing when the infobox is active. Pressing the enter cursor
key saves the wind value as the initial value when XCSoar next
starts.
Wind Bearing
Wind B
Wind bearing estimated by XCSoar. (Touchscreen/PC only)
Manual adjustment is possible by pressing the up/down cursor
keys to adjust bearing when the infobox is active.
Outside Air Temperature
OAT
Outside air temperature measured by a probe if supported by a
connected intelligent variometer.
Relative Humidity
RelHum
Relative humidity of the air in percent as measured by a probe
if supported by a connected intelligent variometer.
Forecast Temperature
MaxT
Forecast temperature of the ground at the home airfield, used
in estimating convection height and cloud base in conjunc-
tion with outside air temperature and relative humidity probe.
(Touchscreen/PC only) Pressing the up/down cursor keys ad-
justs this forecast temperature.
10.6 MacCready
MacCready Setting
MacCready
The current MacCready setting. This infobox also shows
whether MacCready is manual or auto. (Touchscreen/PC only)
Also used to adjust the MacCready Setting if the infobox is
active, by using the up/down cursor keys. Pressing the enter
cursor key toggles Auto MacCready mode.
Speed MacCready
V Mc
The MacCready speed-to-fly for optimal flight to the next way-
point. In cruise flight mode, this speed-to-fly is calculated for
maintaining altitude. In final glide mode, this speed-to-fly is
calculated for descent.
Percentage climb
% Climb
Percentage of time spent in climb mode.
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- User Manual 1
- Contents 2
- Revision history 7
- Warnings and precautions 7
- Legal notices 7
- 1 Introduction 9
- 1.2 Notes 10
- 1.3 System requirements 10
- 1.4 Downloading XCSoar 11
- 1.5 Installation 12
- 1.6 Running XCSoar 15
- 1.7 Through-life support 17
- 1.8 Training 18
- 1.9 Using XCSoar safely 19
- 2 User Interface 20
- 2.1 Button labels and menus 22
- 2.2 InfoBoxes 28
- 2.3 Status messages 30
- 2.4 Dialog windows 30
- 2.5 Sounds 33
- 2.6 Screen 34
- 2.7 Help system 34
- 3 Navigation 35
- 3.3 Zoom and map scale 36
- 3.4 Panning the map 37
- 3.5 Waypoints 38
- 3.6 Active task 39
- 3.7 Terrain and Topology 39
- 3.8 Trail 40
- 3.9 Markers 42
- 3.10 Glide range 42
- 3.11 Aircraft status dialog 43
- 4 Cross Country Tasks 45
- 4.2 Waypoint details dialog 46
- 4.3 Waypoint selector dialog 48
- 4.4 Task editor dialog 50
- 4.6 Task rules 55
- 4.7 Alternate starts 57
- 4.8 Task calculator dialog 59
- 4.9 Task status dialog 60
- 4.10 Assigned Area Tasks 60
- 4.11 OnLine Contest 62
- 4.12 Abort/resume task 63
- 4.13 Logger 65
- 4.14 Logger replay dialog 66
- 4.15 Analysis dialog 67
- 4.16 Sunlight and time 69
- 5 Glide Computer 71
- 5.2 MacCready setting 72
- 5.3 Glide polar 73
- 5.4 Basic settings dialog 73
- 5.5 Speed command display 75
- 5.6 Speed to fly 75
- 5.7 Safety heights 76
- 5.8 Final glide calculator 78
- 5.10 Task speed estimation 80
- 5.11 Optimal cruise track 81
- 5.12 Auto MacCready 82
- 5.13 Analysis dialog 84
- 6 Atmosphere and Instruments 86
- 6.2 Air data inputs 87
- 6.3 Wind display 87
- 6.4 Wind estimation 88
- 6.5 Wind settings dialog 89
- 6.6 Thermal profile 90
- 6.7 Thermal locator 91
- 6.8 Convection forecast 92
- 6.9 Analysis dialog 93
- 7.1 Airspace display 95
- 7.2 Incursion events 96
- 7.3 Airspace warning levels 97
- 7.4 Airspace warning dialog 98
- 7.6 Airspace queries 100
- 7.7 Airspace filter dialog 101
- 7.8 Analysis dialog 101
- 7.9 FLARM traffic display 102
- XCSoar User Manual 103
- 7.10 Team flying 104
- 8 Avionics and Airframe 106
- 8.3 Switch inputs 107
- 8.4 Switch dialog 108
- 8.6 Mobile telephones 109
- 8.7 Other devices 110
- 8.8 System status dialog 110
- 9 Quickstart 111
- 9.2 FAI Task 112
- 9.3 FAI Task, Manual Start 114
- 9.4 AAT Task, Manual Arm 114
- 10 InfoBox Reference 119
- 10.3 Glide ratio 120
- 10.4 Variometer 121
- 10.5 Atmosphere 122
- 10.6 MacCready 122
- 10.7 Navigation 123
- 10.8 Waypoint 124
- 10.9 Team code 124
- 11 Configuration 126
- 11.3 Airspace Display 128
- 11.5 Map Display 131
- 11.6 Glide computer 133
- 11.7 Safety factors 134
- 11.8 Polar 136
- 11.9 Devices 137
- 11.10 Units 138
- 11.11 Interface files 139
- 11.12 Appearance 141
- 11.13 Vario gauge 143
- 11.14 Task 144
- 11.15 Task Rules 146
- 11.16 InfoBox 147
- 11.17 Logger 148
- 11.18 Waypoint edit 149
- 12 Data Files 151
- 12.2 Terrain 152
- 12.3 Topology 152
- 12.4 Waypoints 152
- 12.5 Airspace 153
- 12.6 Airfield details 153
- 12.7 Glide polar 154
- 12.8 Profiles 155
- 12.9 Checklist 156
- 12.10 Tasks 156
- 12.11 Flight logs 157
- 12.12 Input events 157
- 12.13 Language 158
- 12.14 Status 158
- 12.15 FLARM Identification file 159
- 12.16 Dialog files 159
- 13 History and Development 160
- 13.3 Open source philosophy 161
- 13.4 Development process 162
- 13.5 User base 162
- 13.6 Credits 163
- No warranty 169
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