User manual

XCSoar User Manual

two GPS devices may be used simultaneously, giving XC-

Soar a degree of redundancy of the GPS ﬁxes.

Altair : The Altair glide computer by triadis Engineering is a glide

computer factory installed with XCSoar. The Altair PRO

version also contains an internal GPS.

1.4 Downloading XCSoar

The software is available as a free download from the XCSoar

website http://xcsoar.sourceforge.net. Follow the links to

the download section.

Several versions are available for different operating systems:

Pocket PC : This version is used by Pocket PC (Windows Mobile) or-

ganisers.

Altair : This version is used by the Altair glide computer.

PC : This version is used on Windows personal computers.

Pocket PC Installer

Download the relevant package for your Pocket PC operating sys-

tem version and save it to disk:

PPC : For Pocket PC version 3.0 and older, MIPS or ARM CPU.

PPC2002 : For Pocket PC 2002, ARM CPU.

PPC2003 : For Pocket PC 2003, Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition, and

Windows Mobile 5.0.

ALL : This package contains the executable programs for all oper-

ating systems versions listed above.