{"id":336,"date":"2020-10-06T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/?page_id=336"},"modified":"2024-01-14T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:35:11","slug":"xcsoar-basic-setup-and-usage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/xcsoar-basic-setup-and-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"XCSoar basic setup and usage."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xcsoar.org\/\">XCSoar<\/a> is a great application (and FREE) for use by the beginner to the experienced contest pilot.\u00a0 Besides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xcsoar.org\">their website<\/a>,\u00a0 which has both a <a href=\"https:\/\/download.xcsoar.org\/releases\/7.41\/XCSoar-manual.pdf\">complete manual<\/a>\u00a0 (170+ pages) and <a href=\"https:\/\/download.xcsoar.org\/releases\/7.41\/XCSoar-in-a-flash.pdf\">quick start guide<\/a> (only 15 pages), below are some other video links that may help.<br \/>\n<em>There is another program called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tophatsoaring.org\/Download.html\">Top Hat<\/a>, but it hasn&#8217;t seen any update since 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Basic setup<\/strong> &#8211; People are intimidated by the initial setup.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/G1Y23qfUeO0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This brief video<\/a> takes you step-by-step thru the process of getting it setup and running on your cellphone (for simply recording your flight) or on a tablet (for real X-Country flying). \u00a0 <em>It only takes a few minutes to complete and you&#8217;ll be able to get .IGC file recordings of all your flights.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Advanced setup<\/strong> &#8211; It has a LOT of options!\u00a0 We found <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/57n9nJgI6M8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this to be a good video<\/a> from an experienced contest pilot to take you thru the entire setup process.\u00a0 If you like the presentation, he also has an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sBXOTunh_fo&amp;list=PLb36zVafnfctzNG7yJoNXc2x8HnX5J9j7\"> entire playlist with great tutorials<\/a> for using XCSoar for cross country and better thermalling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learning how to use it in flight<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 This is the tricky part.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very hard to fly and play with a computer application at the same time.\u00a0 You can do it with two pilots &#8211; OR &#8211; much easier, you can run Condor 2 on your PC at home and have it send data to XCSoar running on your cellphone\/tablet.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rsHamnIgbmQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This is another setup video<\/a> from the same pilot above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>XCSoar is a great application (and FREE) for use by the beginner to the experienced contest pilot.\u00a0 Besides their website,\u00a0 which has both a complete manual\u00a0 (170+ pages) and quick start guide (only 15 pages), below are some other video links that may help. There is another program called Top <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/xcsoar-basic-setup-and-usage\/\" title=\"XCSoar basic setup and usage.\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/336\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soaringtools.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}