FLight Display
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FLight Display
'Flight Display' allows you to display data from a GPS logger on images of sectional maps (or other maps with longitude and latitude
line references), to plan and display soaring tasks, to evaluate data from your GPS recorder competition style against a predefined task,
and to perform detailed analysis of your flight including detailed plots of thermalling activities, or flight track sections. Flights and
tasks can be overlayed and displayed in different combinations. Resulting images can be copied to files, or printed. You need to
provide your own bitmap images of maps. Program can also create a blank map if you do not have a suitable one. Flight Display provides
means to calibrate maps (setup the coordinate system overlay). Map images are not needed for flight analysis, competition evaluation, nor
for display of thermalling activities.
GPS data logs can be in any format supported by GPS_LOG family of programs, which includes the IGC standard. Turnpoints for task
planning can be retrieved from files or captured directly from map images. Turnpoint files can be either in the GPS_LOG format, or in the
TAB format available on the internet (see http://soaring.aerobaticsweb.org/TP/HomePage.html
). This program runs under Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, and Windows XP.
Questions or comments concerning this program should be e-mailed to birecki@hpl.hp.com