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GiPSy Flight Manager

GiPSy Flight Manager is an extension for FireFox web browser that provides:

  • download of flight tracklogs from your GPS instrument and create IGC in very easy and intuitive way
  • well arranged and usable logbook of all your flights

GiPSy is closely integrated with the XContest system. GiPSy currently runs on  Windows,   Linux OS (x86) and Mac OSX (both Intel and PowerPC platforms).

GiPSy supports these GPS units:

  •  Garmin
  • Aircotec

GiPSy speaks to you in English, Czech, German (thanks to Anton Holly), French (thanks to Dominik Mauchle), Hungarian (thanks to Benedek Bence), Polish (thanks to Marcin Skowron) and Italian (thanks to Bruno Brugnolo).


WARNING: GiPSy (and any other paragliding GPS software) does NOT support the newest Garmin models like Colorado and Oregon. Garmin will not provide A300 protocol support for these devices. Therefore these devices are not suitable for ordinary paragliding competition. They might be suitable for XContest and similar competitions in the future, however no decision was made yet.

UPDATE: There seems to be some beta firmware for some of these new devices. It seems to work with the 1.5.2 version of GiPSy on Linux and Windows platforms. If you need it for Mac platform, write me a message and I will try to compile it.


Update (8.9.2009): Fixed download from new aircotec devices. Fixed problems on Windows platform with serial GPS. On Linux you may decide not to use the garmin-gps kernel module (which seems to be quite bugggy) and use the libusb instead. See help on how to configure rights so that your user could see the connected USB GPS.


GiPSy is released as freeware, developed by Ondřej Palkovský with the support of XContest team.


The IGC files produced by this software are currently accepted by the XContest system. Once we will be reassured that all critical bugs in the software or validator are found, we will try to get it accepted by other systems as well.

Installation - download

  • Firefox 2.0: Installation package: gipsy_1.1.xpi - 5.4 MB /released 19.06.2008/ - for Linux x86 and Windows
  • Firefox 3.0 for Linux x86, x86_64, Windows x86 and MacOSX 10 PowerPC and Intel platforms: gipsy1.5.8.xpi - 8.5MB /released 8.9.2009/ - Alternatively, you can install the package from addons.mozilla.org, rate it, write a positive review and help us make it an official firefox extension.

Read a short tutorial that explains basic steps how to install and use this software.

Read a description of more advanced features.

Validators

If you want to add support for this software to your system, download Linux validator or Windows validator.

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