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Cumulus

Cumulus is a program designed for the soaring community. It provides a moving map display with all the information you need to make navigation easier while flying, yet requiring a minimum of user interaction. Navigation during flight is based on the processing of standard NMEA records delivered by a GPS receiver. Additionally, the proprietary NMEA sentences of some logger devices can be included in the processing.

Cumulus features a full colour moving map with information on terrain, point data, airspace, (rail-) roads, water, cities and many other details. It handles waypoints, IGC logging and tasks in cooperation with KFLog. Wind determination, reachable sites, final glide, sunrise and sunset calculations, retrieving of airport weather reports (METAR and TAF), live tracking of flights as well as automatic task point switching are also supported.

Software license agreement

Cumulus is distributed as open source under the GPLv3 license. See here for the license conditions.

Important hint to all program users

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY!

Do not rely on this software program as your primary source of navigation. As pilot in command you are responsible for using official aeronautical charts and proper methods for safe navigation. The information presented by this application may be outdated or incorrect.

This software may not be used as a traffic and collision-warning system!

You use this program at your own risk. If you don't agree, don't use this software!

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