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7 Version 0.8 offers a major upgrade in the AltosUI
8 interface. Significant new features include:
12 Post-flight graphing tool. This lets you explore the behaviour
13 of your rocket after flight with a scroll-able and zoom-able
14 chart showing the altitude, speed and acceleration of the
15 airframe along with events recorded by the flight computer. You
16 can export graphs to PNG files, or print them directly.
19 Real-time moving map which overlays the in-progress flight on
20 satellite imagery fetched from Google Maps. This lets you see in
21 pictures where your rocket has landed, allowing you to plan
22 recovery activities more accurately.
25 Wireless recovery system testing. Prep your rocket for flight
26 and test fire the deployment charges to make sure things work as
27 expected. All without threading wires through holes in your
31 Optimized flight status displays. Each flight state now has it's
32 own custom 'tab' in the flight monitoring window so you can
33 focus on the most important details. Pre-flight, the system
34 shows a set of red/green status indicators for battery voltage,
35 apogee/main igniter continutity and GPS reception. Wait until
36 they're all green and your rocket is ready for flight. There are
37 also tabs for ascent, descent and landing along with the
38 original tabular view of the data.
41 Monitor multiple flights simultaneously. If you have more than
42 one TeleDongle, you can monitor a flight with each one on the
46 Automatic flight monitoring at startup. Plug TeleDongle into the
47 machine before starting AltosUI and it will automatically
48 connect to it and prepare to monitor a flight.
51 Exports Google Earth flight tracks. Using the Keyhole Markup
52 Language (.kml) file format, this provides a 3D view of your
53 rocket flight through the Google Earth program.