Ozitarget [EN]

Ozitarget is my last finding! It is not a real moving map software such as Oziexplorer or CompeGPS, but an add-on developed by the Australian balloon manufacturer Sean Kavanagh. Indeed, Ozitarget is a complement that interacts with Oziexplorer by relying on the same software code. Here is Sean Kavanagh’s website about Ozitarget.

As I mentioned before in the Softwares section, Oziexplorer is a very stable software that does not use a lot of working memory. However, there is a crucial lack of features that are adapted to competition ballooning, and the user interface is really old-fashioned.

This is where Ozitarget comes into play: it adds new functionalities to Oziexplorer et its interface actually replaces the one from Oziezplorer.

You will for example be able:

to draw several radius starting from the same waypoint (useful for donuts tasks)
to create waypoints by entering 4-numbers coordinates (the one given by the task sheet)
to save the different wind layers encountered during the flight
to navigate to several targets concurrently (for hesitation Walz)

And many more options that I will explain in more details later on.

The main advantage of that add-on is that his designer, Sean Kavanagh, constantly works to improve and update it so that it might offers more and more useful features. Ozitarget only runs on a Windows exploitation system (XP, Vista 7 or Windows 8). It requires first the installation of Oziexplorer, that has to be bought separately (more information here).

Ozitarget is available here for 65€ (95 AUS$) including lifelong updates and technical support.

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