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For having fun with your Flight Computer, you have to put the right image on the SD-Card.

There are several ways for getting the necessary software for a working Flight Computer depending on what you want:

The easiest way to get a working software on your Flight Computer is to download a prebuild image for an SD-Card. The most recent image can be downloaded here:

7" Display Flightcomputer

4,3" Display Flightcomputer

A detailed guideline for writing the image file to a SD-Card will be here

To have a lot more control regarding the content of the image, like special maps, weather data or airspaces, you can setup you own build machine and build a customized image by yourself. Before you are going to begin with such a step, you should check if you meet the following requirements:

1. Linux System (e.g. Ubuntu) as build machine
2. Some knowledge about bitbake and OpenEmbedded
3. Some knowledge about CrossCompiling software for Emebbed Systems
4. A lot of time

If you meet all the requirements you can get detailed instructions here

If you are an expert Linux developer you are welcome to join our development team

Please contact us at mailto:info@openvario.org

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