Altair Glide Computer and Navigation System User Manual download pdf (Page 121)

12 DATA FILES

*LS-3 WinPilot POLAR file: MassDryGross[kg],

*MaxWaterBallast[liters], Speed1[km/h], Sink1[m/s],

*Speed2, Sink2, Speed3, Sink3

373,121,74.1,-0.65,102.0,-0.67,167.0,-1.85

Don’t be too optimistic when entering your polar data. It is all too easy to set your LD too high

and you will rapidly see yourself undershooting on ﬁnal glide.

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Manual (Altair version) 1
Revision history 3
Warnings and precautions 3
Legal notices 3
Contents 4
• XCSoar-A-EN iv 5
• XCSoar-A-EN vi 7
1 Introduction 8
Start-up and user proﬁles 9
Splash screen 9
1.4 Through-life support 10
1.5 Using XCSoar safely 11
2 User Interface 12
2.1 Button labels and menus 13
2.1.1 NAV menu 14
2.1.2 DISP menu 15
2.1.3 Pan mode 15
2.1.4 CONF menu 16
2.1.5 INFO Menu 16
Default buttons 17
Dynamic menu labels 17
2.2 InfoBoxes 18
2.3 Dialog windows 18
• XCSoar-A-EN 12 19
2.3.7 Screen Brightness 20
2.3.8 Setup MacCready 20
2.3.9 Basic Settings 20
2.3.10 Wind Settings 20
• XCSoar-A-EN 14 21
2.4 Status messages 22
2.5 Status dialog 22
Aircraft 23
• XCSoar-A-EN 18 25
2.6 Text entry 26
2.7 Sounds 27
2.8 Screen 27
2.9 Help system 27
3 Display Elements 28
3.3 Glider symbol 29
3.4 Trail 30
3.5 Glide range 31
3.6 Map elements 31
Waypoints 32
Terrain and topology 32
3.7 Markers 33
3.8 Active task elements 33
3.9 Thermal proﬁle 34
3.10 Other 34
GPS not connected 35
GPS waiting for ﬁx 35
Final glide 35
4 Cross Country Tasks 36
• XCSoar-A-EN 30 37
4.2 Task Editor 38
• Save only Only save task 39
• Task type Standard or AAT 40
• Distance Task distance 40
• XCSoar-A-EN 34 41
Page: Waypoints 42
• XCSoar-A-EN 36 43
Page: Rules 44
4.3 Task calculator 45
4.4 Waypoint Browser 46
4.5 Waypoint Info 47
−100%, the target is located 48
4.7 OnLine Contest 49
4.8 Logger 50
 Setup Logger 51
5 Glide Computer 52
5.2 MacCready settings 53
5.3 Glide polar 54
5.4 Basic settings 55
5.5 Speed to ﬂy 56
5.6 Safety heights 57
= 0), adjusted for 58
5.7 Final glide calculator 59
+/− 500 meters 60
5.9 Task speed estimation 61
5.10 Optimal cruise track 62
 Analysis Show 63
5.12 Flight notiﬁcations 64
5.13 Sunlight and time 64
6 Atmosphere and Instruments 65
6.2 Air data inputs 66
6.3 Wind display 66
6.4 Wind estimation 66
6.5 Wind settings dialog 67
6.6 Thermal locator 68
6.7 Convection forecast 69
• XCSoar-A-EN 64 71
7.1 Airspace display 72
7.2 Incursion events 73
7.3 Airspace warning levels 73
7.4 Airspace warning dialog 74
7.6 Airspace Info dialog 75
7.7 Airspace Browser dialog 76
• XCSoar-A-EN 70 77
7.8 Analysis dialog: Airspace 78
7.9 FLARM trafﬁc display 79
• Green for level 0 80
• Yellow for level 1 80
• Red for level 2 and 3 80
7.10 Team ﬂying 81
8 Avionics and Airframe 82
8.3 Switch Status 83
8.5 Supported variometers 83
8.6 Other avionics devices 84
8.7 Slave mode 84
9 Quickstart 85
9.2 FAI Task 86
9.3 FAI Task, Manual Start 87
9.4 AAT Task, Manual Arm 87
In-ﬂight 88
After landing 89
Prior to takeoff 90
10 InfoBox Reference 91
10.3 Glide ratio 92
10.4 Variometer 93
10.5 Atmosphere 94
10.6 MacCready 94
10.7 Navigation 95
10.8 Waypoint 97
10.9 Team code 98
11 Conﬁguration 99
Fail-safe 100
11.1 Site 101
11.2 Airspace 102
• XCSoar-A-EN 96 103
11.3 Map Display 104
• XCSoar-A-EN 98 105
11.4 Terrain display 106
Colour schemes 107
11.5 Glide computer 108
• XCSoar-A-EN 102 109
11.6 Safety factors 110
11.7 Polar 111
11.8 Devices 112
11.9 Units 113
11.10 Interface 114
11.11 Appearance 115
• XCSoar-A-EN 116
11.12 InfoBox 117
12 Data Files 118
12.5 Airspace 119
12.6 Map 119
12.7 Airﬁeld details 119
12.8 Glide polar 120
*Speed2, Sink2, Speed3, Sink3 121
• XCSoar-A-EN 116 123
12.9 Proﬁles 125
12.10 Checklist 125
12.11 Tasks 125
12.12 Flight logs 126
12.13 Input events 126
12.14 Language 126
12.15 Status 127
12.16 FLARM Identiﬁcation ﬁle 127
12.17 Dialog ﬁles 127
13 About XCSoar 128
13.3 Open source philosophy 129
13.4 Development process 129
13.5 User base 130
13.6 Credits 130
• XCSoar-A-EN 124 131
A GNU General Public License 132
• XCSoar-A-EN 126 133
• XCSoar-A-EN 128 135
No warranty 136

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