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March 16, 2025 bfo

XCTrack Pro Widgets – Competition – 2

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This page gives additional details on the widgets that are in the “Competition” subsection. They can be accessed by customizing the XCTrack Pro pages pre-installed on AIR³. Remember that your customization will be lost if you reset XCTrack Pro interface with AIR³ Manager, if you change the profile (Kiss, Easy, Expert, Paramotor) or if you load a different configuration file ‘xcfg’.

Read more details about competition in Menu/Navigation/Competition of the main XCTrack Manual.

Click on the + sign to read the details.

Distance to goal

Optimized distance through the remaining turnpoints to goal

Distance to ESS

Optimized distance through the remaining turnpoints to ESS.

Altitude over goal

Arriving altitude over goal line/cylinder.

Based on your current altitude (GPS altitude) and the glide ratio that is indicated in the Menu/Preferences/Aircraft/Glide ratio, this widget will display the altitude over goal once you are approaching the goal (once the altitude over goal is above 1000m below the goal).

It is taking into account the route to the goal passing through the optimized route of remaining waypoints.

The value is computed from the necessary time to glide through the route, based on Menu/Preferences/Aircraft/Glide ratio. The time is computed from Menu/Preferences/Aircraft/Trim speed and current wind (and the route of course). If there is any turnpoint to still reach before the goal, there is a constant of 15 m of altitude loss at every turnpoint.

Altitude over goal: -140m if you still need to pass through a waypoint…

but Altitude over goal: +321m if you directly go to the goal…

Altitude over ESS

Arriving altitude over ESS.

Based on your current altitude (GPS altitude) and the glide ratio that is indicated in the Menu/Preferences/Aircraft/Glide ratio, this widget will display the altitude over ESS once you are approaching the ESSl (once the altitude over ESS is above 1000m below the ESS).

It is taking into account the route to the ESS passing through the optimized route of remaining waypoints.

The value is computed from the necessary time to glide through the route, based on Menu/Preferences/Aircraft/Glide ratio. The time is computed from Menu/Preferences/Aircraft/Trim speed and current wind (and the route of course). If there is any turnpoint to still reach before the ESS, there is a constant of 15 m of altitude loss at every turnpoint.

Glide to goal

Glide ratio necessary to reach goal.

You can decide if you want to display it with or without leading 1:

       

 

Glide to ESS

Glide ratio necessary to reach ESS.

You can decide if you want to display it with or without leading 1:

       

Time to start

Time to next start gate.

This widget simply tells you the remaining time to next start gate.

Example:

Time at start

Time you cross the SSS.

The value is computed either based on the route to the [Optimized point] … or based on the nearest point (cylinder).

You can Activate “Use distinguishing brackets” in order to quickly identify your previous settings: [Optimized point] (Cylinder)

Reminder:

  • “Optimized point” takes into account the route to the optimized point. This is the most used setting
  • “Cylinder (nearest point) takes into account the route to the nearest point of the start circle.

Speed used for computation. You can choose between Groundspeed, Airspeed with wind compensation, Glide speed with wind compensation, XC speed.

Groundspeed: your actual speed over ground is used. If you fly toward the point, you will see how much time it takes (the wind is included implicitly), but if you are circling, the value will change all the time because of the different ground speed upwind and downwind.

Airspeed: see Airspeed widget info in the Flying section. Airspeed is computed based on groundspeed and computed wind. It is the speed that would have been indicated if the pilot had a airspeed sensor (tube). It actually depends on your braking/accelerating position. The value computed is the time when you reach the point in the current breaking/accelerating settings. If you fly directly (but you don’t need to do it), this is the difference between ground speed and airspeed.

Glidespeed: the speed from glider configuration corrected by wind. It doesn’t matter how fast you are flying right now nor direction. It indicates when you reach the point if you fly directly and on configured airspeed (for example full accelerated flight speed).

XC speed: Time calculated on the speed based from the biggest xc distance (distance over 3 breaking point) and the flying time. Can be used for large FAI triangle hunting.

Based on the setting, speed can vary very much. The “averaging interval” gives the opportunity to compute based on average interval.

Finally, you can decide which format you want to display the Time at start…

Speed to start

Speed to go to reach the start cylinder at the right time.

The value is computed either based on the route to the [Optimized point] … or based on the nearest point (cylinder).

You can Activate “Use distinguishing brackets” in order to quickly identify your previous settings: [Optimized point] (Cylinder)

Reminder:

  • “Optimized point” takes into account the route to the optimized point. This is the most used setting
  • “Cylinder (nearest point) takes into account the route to the nearest point of the start circle

% of speed section

Show percentage of flown task distance, from Start to ESS (to help with leading points)

Task summary

Task information reminder

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