SAFA Skysailor Magazine

18 SKY SAILOR July | August 2023 GxAirCom . When installed on a supported piece of hardware, this can receive and trans- mit FLARM and FANET+ data and pump it via a Bluetooth connection to not just XC Guide, but also XC Track, XC Soar or LK8000. So, what hardware will GxAIRCom run on? A browse of the readme on the project github page has a link to hardware supported , and on that page are three options. I went for the LILYGO TTGO Meshtastic T-Beam V1.1. This little board the UK, NZ or here. However, I can switch on the FLARM receive function which, drum roll please, works on the European 868MHz frequency (and is not allowed to be used here). But do I really want to take my expensive little beastie? Or is there a cheaper alternative? Yes, there is. Introducing GxAirCom In the earlier article in SkySailor, I sang the praises of an Android app called XC Guide. This super app takes a multitude of tracking sources and presents them on the map which is fantastic for situational awareness. It can also push the data through a local host port in XC Track running on my Air3. One of the tracking options that XC Guide will accept is data from a bit of software called Figure 2: XC Guide – tracking data sources and targets Adventures in the land of FLARM Figure 3: LILYGO TTGO Meshtastic T-Beam V1.1