User manual

Preface

Revision history

Revision Release date Changes

0.2 EN 6 March 2006 Reorganised, reformatted

1.0 EN 26 March 2006 First release

1.01 EN 11 April 2006 Minor edits,

new features described

1.1 EN 29 May 2006 Incorporate changes to V4.7.5

1.2 EN 17 August 2006 Incorporate changes to V4.7.8

1.3 EN 30 August 2006 First build of XCSoar v4.7 portrait

1.4 EN 13 September 2006 Release of XCSoar v5.0 on all platforms

This manual applies to XCSoar version 5.0.0. The authors reserve

the right to update this manual as enhancements are made through-

out the life of this product.

Warnings and precautions

IT IS THE USER’S RESPONSIBILITY TO USE THIS SOFT-

WARE PRUDENTLY. THIS SOFTWARE IS INTENDED TO BE

USED ONLY AS A NAVIGATION AID AND MUST NOT BE

USED FOR ANY PURPOSE REQUIRING PRECISE MEASURE-

MENT OF DIRECTION, DISTANCE, LOCATION, OR TOPOG-

RAPHY. THIS SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT BE USED AS AN

AID TO DETERMINE GROUND PROXIMITY FOR AIRCRAFT

NAVIGATION. THIS SOFTWARE SHOULD NOT BE USED

AS A TRAFFIC COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM.

Legal notices

Software license agreement

This software is released according to the GNU General Public Li-

cense Version 2. See Appendix A for the full text of the agreement

and warranty notice.