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