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<para>
Version 0.8 offers a major upgrade in the AltosUI
interface. Significant new features include:
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<listitem>
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.
</listitem>
<listitem>
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.
</listitem>
<listitem>
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.
</listitem>
<listitem>
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.
</listitem>
<listitem>
Monitor multiple flights simultaneously. If you have more than
one TeleDongle, you can monitor a flight with each one on the
same computer.
</listitem>
<listitem>
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.
</listitem>
<listitem>
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.
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</article>
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