Brauniger Competino, Manual

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2.8 User selectable fields
The main screen as well as the final glide screen are containing each 3 pages which can be
. selected with
►
.All in all 9 of the following results can be achieved in the user selectable
fields. To toggle between the pages press
►
briefly. The page numbers P1 …P3 are
displayed below the Battery status.
Alt a. BG
Safety height above the best glide path*
FL (ft) Flight Level (not adjustable by the user)
Airspeed Speed measured with the vane wheel, true air speed
Alt a.Goal Calculated height above last WP of a route
Dist Goal Sum of all sections of a route in front of the pilot
Vario Digital Vario as a user field
Alt 1 The altitude Alt 1 as a user field
Dist Toff Distance from actual position to Take off point
Dist Cyl Distance to the circumference of the active WP of a Comp.route
WindSpd Wind strength*
Time Chronological
Fl.Time Flight time since take off
GND Speed ground speed*(=GS)
Spd-Diff Wind component (ground speed minus true airspeed)*
Dist to WP Distance to chosen destination (waypoint)*
Bearing Direction to chosen destination*
Track Flight direction (course)*
Temp Internal temperature
Alt 2 Reference height (if desired, can be set at 0)
Alt 3 Cumulated gained height
QNH hPa Air pressure in hector-Pascal
L/D gnd Actual L/D over ground (=Ground Speed/Sink)*
L/D air Actual L/D in air (only available with vane wheel connected)
L/D req L/D required to reach a WP*
Dist to^ Distance to last thermal
2.9 Battery Management
Two bar graph scales indicate the capacity of the batteries. The
COMPETINO has 2 banks of
2 batteries each. Bank 1 must always be equipped. Bank 2 can remain free. However, we
recommend installing batteries in both banks. As soon as the first bank is used up, the
instrument switches automatically to the second bank. Switching on, the instrument always
will start up with battery 1. After a long flight we recommend inserting the partly used
batteries of bank 2 into bank 1 and then installing fresh batteries into bank 2. In this way, the
batteries will be used more efficiently without as much risk of them dying in flight.
The active Batt.bank is displayed in black and white while the bank not in use is grey.
The next page sample shows the active battery bank 1 with 70 % charge and the battery
bank 2 with 90% of life time.