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13 ABOUT XCSOAR
13 About XCSoar
13.1 Product history
XCSoar started as a commercial product developed by Mike Roberts (UK), where it enjoyed a
successful share of the market for several years and going though several releases, the last being
Version 2. Personal reasons prevented him from being able to continue supporting the product
and so in late 2004 he announced the licensing of the source code to the GNU public license, as
XCSoar Version 3. A support website on Yahoo Groups was set up and the open source project
started to gain interest and input by developers.
In March 2005 the program was substantially enhanced and this resulted in Version 4.0 being
released. By this time, coordination of the various development efforts on the source code became
difficult and time-consuming, so it was decided to move the project to SourceForge, whereby all
the software work could be managed by a concurrent version management system.
In July 2005, Version 4.2 was released which addressed some compatibility issues that were
experienced with certain PDA and GPS hardware configurations.
In September 2005, Version 4.5 was released. This contained major enhancements to the user
interface including the introduction of the ‘input event’ system and language translation files.
In April 2006, Version 4.7 was released to Altair customers. This contained stability and perfor-
mance enhancements as well as many bug fixes; and a new method for handling dialogs based on
XML files.
In September 2006, Version 5.0 was released on all platforms, Altair, PC, PDA. This version con-
tains many improvements and new features and is based on extensive testing in flight and in sim-
ulation.
In September 2007, Version 5.1.2 was released on all platforms, Altair, PC, PDA. This version
contains many improvements and new features and is based on extensive testing in flight and
in simulation. Major improvements include a new map file format incorporating JPG2000 com-
pression, online contest support, additional supported devices, FLARM radar screen, and overall
improved stability, reliability and accuracy of task calculations. Many feature requests from users
have been incorporated into this release.
In May 2008, Version 5.2 was released on Altair. This version contains many improvements and
has been completely reorganised to make the computer-pilot interaction easier.
13.2 Get involved
The success of the project is the result of many kinds of contributions. You do not have to be a
software developer to help; in general, there are perhaps five major ways of contributing, other than
working on the software itself:
• Give feedback Ideas, suggestions, bug reports, encouragement and constructive criticism are
all very welcome and helpful.
• Setup suggestions Because XCSoar is so configurable, we rely to some extent on users to
think about how they would like the program to be set up. Selection of InfoBox layouts,
button menus and button assignments require some design thought, and making these
available to the developers and other users will help us provide good default settings.
121 XCSoar Manual (Altair version) • XCSoar-A-EN
- 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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