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the black line). Grey line connects the lift source on the ground with the corresponding thermal
in the air.
4.
To get more information about a particular thermal, the user can click on it with the left mouse
button:
Button ‘Delete’ allows removal of the given thermal from the database.
Note: IGC files contain UTC time. This time is shown in the UTC column above. To translate
to local time, time zone from user’s Desktop PC is used in the ‘Local’ column. To change time
zone on your PC, double click on Windows system clock, and select ‘Time Zone’.
5.
To save the Thermal Database, click on ‘Save’ (see picture in point 2 above). The default file
extension is *.wt1. After the database is saved, it can be used in flight on a Pocket PC. To do
that, start Active Sync, and drag & drop the database file to folder \My Documents on your
Pocket PC. Then, start WinPilot on the Pocket PC, go to Menu.Files, and add the file to
Menu.Files.Thermals.
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