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Important for FAI flights:
WinGP can also store flight data in IGC format or can convert ZAN files to IGC files. However
these IGC files cannot be used for FAI purposes anymore. To get IGC files as required for FAI
purposes the ZAN files produced by WinGP must be converted to IGC format by DOS program
CONV-ZAN.EXE. In Windows this can be done easily by dragging the ZAN file over the CONV-
ZAN application.
With WinGP you also can write waypoint lists, edit them, transfer them into GP941 or read them from
GP941. You also can set up routes after having opened a waypoint list.
(Attention: due to a program bug in WinGP, the last waypoint of a list cannot be used for routes! To
avoid this problem, enter the last waypoint twice at the end of the list and use only the one before last
for routes.)
A short description of the waypoint and routes organization for the glider computer SR940:
A waypoint list may have up to 990 entries. A route may have up to 20 entries selected from this list.
The SR940 can store and use up to 8 preselected routes. These 8 routes as maximum are called a
set of routes. The GP941 can store 5 sets of routes. When reading routes from GP941 to SR940 the
set number is entered and one set is transferred to SR940. For setting up routes for GP941 and for
using routes with SR940 the same waypoint list with the same waypoint numbers must be used. Rou-
tes only store waypoint numbers, not the names.
Up to 6 different configuration settings for SR940 can be stored within the GP941 and can be recalled
by SR940, so that several pilots can fly on one glider using their own SR940 configurations. Settings
1 to 6 can be read by SR940, but only settings 1 to 3 can be written from SR940 into GP940. With
WinGP these settings can be repositioned.
If a waypoint list is opened, a task can be declared with WinGP according to FAI rules. The declared
task with turnpoint information, time of declaration and date of the declared flight will be added to the
flight data of the next flight data record.
Before reading back a flight declaration just after writing, you have to wait for 6 seconds.
(Attention: due to a program bug in WinGP you cannot read back a task after writing. Instead you
have to end WinGP and start it again; then you can read back a task.)
Note:
Tasks must be declared always in this sequence: takeoff point, departure point, turnpoint(s), finish
point, landing point. If takeoff point and departure point or finish point and landing point are the same,
these points must be entered twice.
It is easier to enter the task with glider computer SR940.
Important:
all entries made into GP941 for SR940 purposes do not influence the recording of flight data; the
GP941 is used for transport of data to the glider only. Entered waypoint list and route do not influence
the task declaration within GP941 and are not used for information when rounding turnpoints.
