The official 3.0a version has been released today, february 15th 2012.

This is a team work, and the 3.0 has been brought to you by many people.

We wish to thank expecially:

Ulli Heynen
Bruno de Lacheisserie
Kuba Kubrynski
Richard Pecl
Mateusz Pusz
Kalman Rozsahegyi

And Jiri Bergman for the nice graphics!

Thanks also to Bo, Sergio, Ernst,  and all translators, too many!

It was a very long rush, and we shall dedicate the next week to take a rest and write some necessary documentation, the new 3.0 manual.

We wish you happy flights and safe landings with LK.

A dutch company, Scott Tiger Holding BV based in Arnhem is currently broadcasting an LK8000.ORG website ignoring our requests to give the domain back to legitimate owners (us). At least one of the domain owners, Peter Lengkeek, declared a few months ago that the domain "was used for testing" and it was closed to public. As of today, February 15th, the domain is instead well visible, and it is broadcasting our logo just like if it was the official one.

We have no relationship with LK8000.org , which we consider hijacked.

All of this is a real shame, considering that this is a non-profit project.

We received one of these units and could make a  full review of it.

We welcome Bruno de Lacheisserie from France, who joined our development team. Bruno has already provided us the missing OziExplorer waypoint format for LK.

Meanwhile, the 2.3 beta versions are going ahead, and we are testing Optimized Routes for Paragliders, new Thermal pages, new Airspace functionalities, etc.

The next 2.3d beta version is expected within the end of august.

We are progressing with full support for these nice devices: internal pressure sensors, digital compass, accelerometers, power control, backlight, etc. and full sunlight readable displays.

Holux FunTrek is going to be distributed by a Czech company, very soon now, with LK preinstalled.

Medion is already distributing its S3747 GoPal PNA which is basically a Royaltek BV-3200 .

We have been kindly endorsed by these companies, and soon we shall report with pictures and good news, being now able to proceed with a full and tested customisation for their devices.

By the end of july we shall release the 5th mantainance v2.2: version 2.2e

At the same time, we are progressing toward version 2.4 which is expected by september.

Currently we shall be releasing beta version 2.3c very soon, and it is a fully functional and usable version in case you want to test it in flight (we do!). New airspaces, new thermal page, lots of new things.

Please visit the PostFrontal forum for an announce this week.

We are already testing the next 2.4 version, experimenting new features in beta 2.3 releases.

For GA (general aviation) we now have terrain vision painting obstacles at current height.

It is very similar to what you have on expensive Garmin instruments.

Red areas will disappear when you climb over obstacles. Yellow areas are borderline terrains which are unsafe at current height.

And more than that, we have a brand new Airspace engine, turbulence proof.

LK is constantly improving for all pilots!

Join beta testers on our forum, where you can find all informations to download beta versions.

An updated version of the official stable 2.2 is now available.

Version 2.2d is fixing:

• a problem with Flarm traffic page 4.1: if left on display for many hours, it can crash the device.

• a problem appearing on some chinese and commercial car navigators PNA that have some system messages pop up during usage, like for power warnings. These popups were crashing sometimes LK.

• The Automatic QNH was no more working correctly, it is fixed now.

Finally, the Orbiter beeps have been delayed to be played only if you have made at least 100m (300ft) gain in the current thermal. Otherwise we are assuming that there is still no certain center of thermal, and orbiter cannot lead you around it.  Remember that the Orbiter will autodisable after 500m thermal gain, in any case. Thus it is now working in the 100-500m thermal gain range.

We are happy to announce that Kuba Kubrynski has joined the development team. Many of you will recall the Kubrynski family name, related to the design and construction of the amazing SZD-56  "Diana 2" high performance glider.

It's a pleasure to have you on board, Kuba!

And we take the chance to ask our paragliding friends for some help as well: we are seeking for software engineers that are also passionate paragliding or hang gliding pilots, to improve LK with your expertise!