Ramblings

Here is what I have on my XCTrack flight instrument and why. You can download the config file here , move it to /XCTrack/Config on your device then import it in XCTrack (Preferences -> Testing & Debug ->  Import configuration). The items in  bold  below are those that I find essential. Everything else is optional or useless.  Thermalling Thermal Mode GPS Altitude : The most useful metric for XC in my opinion. I use it to gauge whether I am high enough for crossing valleys / gaps in the terrain. Thermal Gain : Despite the vario beeps, in broken lift it can be hard to tell how the lifty and sinky parts of your turns (or figure 8s when close to terrain / in a lift band) average out. I keep glancing at this number every 30s to gauge whether the lift is so broken that I'm barely maintaining or even slowly sinking out. This is easy to do with just altitude, but not having to remember what height I entered a thermal and to do mental math is a little bit of b...