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The open-source tactical glide computer

XCSoar is a tactical glide computer for glider and paraglider pilots.

Notable features include:

  • Moving map with multi-touch controls, terrain, topography, and airspace from worldwide databases, including OpenAIP
  • Real-time calculations and navigation
  • Thermal assistance for finding and centering thermals
  • Traffic awareness with FLARM, OGN, and SkyLines traffic on the map and radar
  • Task planning for AAT, racing, and cross-country
  • Contest scoring with automatic WeGlide integration and SkyLines tracking
  • Weather overlays from SkySight, EDL, XCTherm, and RASP, plus METAR, satellite imagery, and automatic thermals from TIM
  • Airspace and NOTAMs with map display, real-time warnings, background updates, and filtering
  • Data management for importing site files, exporting and uploading flight logs, backups, and file maintenance
  • Simulator support, including Condor 3 telemetry and multiplayer traffic
  • Device integration supporting many manufacturers
  • Flight analysis with barograms and performance metrics
  • Multi-platform — Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, Kobo, and Windows with OpenGL graphics

For cross-country, competitions, or training, XCSoar provides the tools for informed decisions in flight.

XCSoar is built with privacy in mind and released as software libre, so you may run, study, share, and improve it on your own terms.