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The LK supports glider, paraglider and hang glider pilots, providing invaluable help for both cross country flights and competitions. You wouldn't believe it is also free of charge and OpenSource.
LK8000 is translated into 16 languages, and used in 57 countries! Gliding schools and clubs are massively adopting LK and holding training courses for basic and advanced usage.
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Get the new version 3.0b!
Visit the Highlights section for features and the complete list of changes in this version, plus detailed explanation for each new feature (work in progress as of 22.3.2012)
The 3.0 Manual in German language is available now.
The english translation is going on!
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 Read what other pilots are saying about LK
Look at some screen shots
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We waited for 45 days to pass in order to collect and fix all glitches discovered in the 3.0a version, which was released on february 15th.
The 3.0a has NO critical problems, there are no known critical issues and can be used for flight with no problems!
However, why not fixing also minor things? And so we did.
Here is the list of changes, in details..
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Ilka was born today, 27.3 at 9 am. She is 53cm, 3710g.
A perfect size for a future glider pilot!
Congratulations Merve and Ulli! |
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The new 3.0 Handbuch in german is available in the manuals download section.
It is a 320 pages manual with a lot of pictures, updated to the latests features of 3.0.
This document is brought to you by Ernst-Dieter Klinkenberg. |
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March 1st 2012
All pilots flying competitions in the US should download and use only the special "COMPETITION" version, available soon.
See the link on main menu "Compliancy to US RC competitions" for more informations. |
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The official 3.0a version has been released today, february 15th 2012.
This is a team work, and the 3.0 has been brought to you by many people.
We wish to thank expecially:
Ulli Heynen
Bruno de Lacheisserie
Kuba Kubrynski
Richard Pecl
Mateusz Pusz
Kalman Rozsahegyi
And Jiri Bergman for the nice graphics!
Thanks also to Bo, Sergio, Ernst, and all translators, too many!
It was a very long rush, and we shall dedicate the next week to take a rest and write some necessary documentation, the new 3.0 manual.
We wish you happy flights and safe landings with LK.
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A dutch company, Scott Tiger Holding BV based in Arnhem is currently broadcasting an LK8000.ORG website ignoring our requests to give the domain back to legitimate owners (us). At least one of the domain owners, Peter Lengkeek, declared a few months ago that the domain "was used for testing" and it was closed to public. As of today, February 15th, the domain is instead well visible, and it is broadcasting our logo just like if it was the official one.
We have no relationship with LK8000.org , which we consider hijacked.
All of this is a real shame, considering that this is a non-profit project.
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IMI-Gliding provides a wide set of products for gliding. Among others the company offers glider assembly helpers, tow out gear, canopy covers and heating equipment. It also provides gliding electronics like PDA/PNA connecting cables and an IGC certified logger called ERIXX. The latter one is the subject of that review.
IMI-Gliding donated the latest version of ERIXX logger to the LK8000 development team in May 2011 in order to help LK developers to provide support and maintenance for it. That device is fully supported in the next LK8000 2.4 version (and it is already supported in the beta 2.3 serie) and will also be used to test the compatibility of all future releases so pilots using ERIXX and LK8000 will have the best integration possible all the time.
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FunTrek 130 by Holux is a special handheld GPS unit with a bright 3 inches screen perfectly visible under direct sunlight. It has an embedded gps, barometric pressure sensor, 3 axis accelerometer, digital compass, and a very good battery autonomy.
This device is distributed by Wolf-Gear with preinstalled LK8000 and it is already available on the market. LK was customized to make use of many of its hardware features.
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We received one of these units and could make a full review of it.
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We welcome Bruno de Lacheisserie from France, who joined our development team. Bruno has already provided us the missing OziExplorer waypoint format for LK.
Meanwhile, the 2.3 beta versions are going ahead, and we are testing Optimized Routes for Paragliders, new Thermal pages, new Airspace functionalities, etc.
The next 2.3d beta version is expected within the end of august. |
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We are progressing with full support for these nice devices: internal pressure sensors, digital compass, accelerometers, power control, backlight, etc. and full sunlight readable displays.
Holux FunTrek is going to be distributed by a Czech company, very soon now, with LK preinstalled.
Medion is already distributing its S3747 GoPal PNA which is basically a Royaltek BV-3200 .
We have been kindly endorsed by these companies, and soon we shall report with pictures and good news, being now able to proceed with a full and tested customisation for their devices. |
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