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    Experimental Soaring Association
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    UL-Segelflug

    A German site dedicated to ULM / microlight gliders. Click here for an English translation.

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    Soaring Lab

    Replay your .igc files in real time or accelerated time.

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    Cumulous Soaring, Inc.
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    In-Flight Relief - a guide to Male External Catheters
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    Setting up a Kobo eReader, BlueFly vario and XCSoar/LK8000

    Note: for a basic setup which doesn't involve soldering wires to your Kobo's motherboard, you can attach an external GPS/Glonas dongle to the Kobo's external USB port and get much of the same functionality. To do that, you'll need the following:

    • GPS/Glonass USB Dongle
    • 90° Micro USB Male To USB Female Host OTG Cable Power Cable Y Splitter Connector
    • USB External Battery Bank similar to this
      • Kobo Power on - System - Enable USB-OTG - Close
      • XCSoar - Fly - Menu - Config - Devices - Edit a blank device with the following settings:
        • Port: ttyACM0 - Baud Rate: 115200 - Driver: Generic - Save - Close

    ...or you can connect your Kobo to the GPS on your mobile phone (though this will drain your phone's battery if you don't have it connected to an external USB battery):

    • Mobile Phone - Settings - Turn on WiFi Hotspot
    • Kobo - Power on - Network - WiFi ON - Connect to phone hotspot
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    Glider Tracker (Flarm)

    Displays all aircraft carrying an active FLARM unit.

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    How to read a Skew-T diagram

    For those of us who struggle (no matter how many times its explained) to remember the significance of all the different squiggles on a Skew-T sounding, this is one of the best laymans explanations I have seen, with a paraglider's perspective.

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    Glider Radar (Flarm / Open Glider Network)

    Displays all aircraft carrying an active FLARM unit.

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    Flarm Net

    FlarmNet is a community of users of FLARM®-compatible collision avoidance systems.

    FlarmNet is a database, in which people can enter their Flarm®-Radio-ID, an unique identifier stored in all FLARM®-compatible devices. Additional information such as name, aircraft type or registration can be added as well. With FlarmNet-compatible devices you can see all the submitted information to the corresponding FLARM®-Radio-ID. This means you can see who is flying other aircraft, on which radio frequency he usually is and even more - all directly in the air in your cockpit. FlarmNet compatible devices are available from many different manufacturers.

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    LK8000
    Tactical Flight Software - The LK supports general aviation, glider, paraglider and hang glider pilots, providing invaluable help for both cross country flights and competitions.
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    XCSoar
    XCSoar is a tactical glide computer originally developed for the Pocket PC platform. In 2005, the originally commercial software was given to the open-source community for further development and has constantly been improved since. It is now a multi-platform application that currently runs on Windows, Windows Mobile, Unix and Android devices.

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