====== Flight Logger Configuration ======
This screen as accessed from the "Settings Menu"

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^ Option ^ Description ^
|  **Logger Setup** {{ soarpilot:logger_on.png}}   | When this option is checked the logger is enabled |
| {{soarpilot:logger_autooff.png}} | When this checkbox is enabled the logger will auto shutoff when the speed has dropped below the Off Speed as set below. When not checked the **//STOP//** button must be used to close the log file. |
|  **Slow Log Interval**  | This is the normal log interval when not thermalling. Don't set it too fast as it may increase the logger database for long flights beyond the available memory of your Palm. The default of 4 secs is a good starting point. |
|  **Fast Log Interval**  | This is the interval when in a thermal. Default of 1 sec is fine in most cases. |
|  **Estimated Time Left**   | This estimates the maximum length of log file that can be created with the amount of free memory in the Palm device. ((In addition a startup check is performed and a warning displayed if there are less than 5 hours remaining)) |
|  **Event**  | If this is tapped, a "Pilot Event" will be recorded in the flight log and IGC file. |
|  **On Speed **  | This is the speed to fly to start the logger recording your flight |
|  **Off Speed **  | When //**AutoOff**// is checked this speed setting is used to close a flight, also see next setting. |
|  **Off TimeOut **  | The speed must be below the Off Speed for this period of time to close the flight. |
|  **No Fix Timeout**  | When no valid GPS fix is received from the GPS for this period of time, the flight is closed. |
|  **Auto Xfer**  | If checked this option will automatically transfer the current flight IGC file to the SD card when the logger stops. |
|  **Dec. Tasks...**  | If checked, task declarations will be sent to the attached logger.  |

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Note :the logger status is visible in the first line of the [[final_glide_screen#first_line|Final Glide]] screen

<note>If you have a C302, C302A, ReCo, GPSNAV, EW Micro or Flarm configured in the **Comp** field on the [[soarpilot:nmea_port_settings#logger_vario_support|NMEA/Port Settings]] screen, then an additional button is visible on the bottom left of the screen which allows you to set various logger specific items.</note>



===== Flying a Task =====

It is important to know that if the logger is stopped due to a **No Fix Timeout**  or **Off TimeOut ** the flight is officially ended. If the data returns or the speed is again over the **On Speed ** a new flight is started.

**If you were in the middle of a task, it will need to be [[soarpilot:activating_a_task|re-activated]], and a manual start performed.**

===== Wave Flying =====
In order to keep the flight log contiguous while flying in wave, it is suggested that you turn off the //**AutoOff**// option. Otherwise the logger may stop if the gliders ground speed drops below the **Off Speed**. An alternative would be to leave //**AutoOff**// enabled but set the **Off Speed** to a small value (ex. 3-5 knots) and the **Off Time** to a larger value (several minutes) using the assumption that the glider will never be completely setting still especially over a long duration. That way the logger will still stop once you get on the ground and sit still for a while.