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XCSoar User Manual
It is possible to configure XCSoar to change the map display zoom
level or announce arrival and departure of FLARM traffic with
status messages.
Display on the map FLARM of aircraft registration or pilot name
is made possible via a look-up of the ICAO aircraft ID of FLARM
traffic in a file. See Section 12.15 for details on this file format.
Aircraft with the FLARM privacy flag set will not have any iden-
tification displayed.
7.10 Team flying
Team code is a system to allow pilots flying within a team to com-
municate their position to each other in a concise and accurate
manner. The principle of the system is that each pilot uses their
computer to determine a 5 digit code which describes their posi-
tion relative to a common waypoint. The pilots call each other
reporting these codes, and entering the codes into the computer
allows their mates to be located accurately by the computer.
Support for encrypted team codes will be provided in the future.
To use team code, all pilots in the team should select a waypoint
to be used as the reference. This is done via selecting a waypoint
from the Waypoint lookup dialog and then pressing the ‘Set team-
code’ button in the waypoint details page.
The teamcode dialog is accessed via the menu:
NAV . Team Code
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