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Page 2: ...ionics re serves the right to change or improve its products and to make changes in the content without obligation to notify any person or organisation of such changes or improvements Visit the Flymas...

Page 3: ...attery 8 3 1 2 Sound 8 3 1 3 GPS 9 3 1 4 Vario 9 3 1 5 Navigation Circle 11 3 1 6 Airspaces Map 12 3 1 7 Altitude graph 14 3 1 8 Wind Arrow 14 3 1 9 Map Page 15 3 2 Data eld Elements 16 4 Menu mode 21...

Page 4: ...erts 41 4 7 11 Polar 42 4 7 12 FS Keys 42 4 7 13 Airspace settings 43 4 7 14 GPS status 44 5 RouteDe nition 46 5 1 Route De nition 46 5 2 Setting up the route 46 6 McCready Functions 47 7 Firmware 48...

Page 5: ...information is shown on both the power up screen and the Shutdown menu When the Flymaster GPS SD is connected to a power supply wall charger or via USB cable even with the unit o the instrument will...

Page 6: ...d DOWN keys changes the value on each eld Pushing the ENTER key moves to the next eld or in same cases to the next character digit Conversely pushing MENU key moves to the previous eld or to the previ...

Page 7: ...de ned FS Key will scroll up the sound level until the maximum value Pressing more will mute the sound before start scrolling again starting from the minimum value Note Changing the volume using an FS...

Page 8: ...ed by the user using a free application called Flymaster Designer which can be downloaded from the Flymaster website www ymaster net This intuitive tool allows the user to create an unlimited number o...

Page 9: ...raphical indication of the current battery level In Table 3 1 it is possible to see the relationship between what is shown and the actual battery level in percentage This element has xed dimensions Ta...

Page 10: ...PS update rate most of others only provide 1Hz which allows the GPS SD pilot to see very small speed and position changes Furthermore the movement of the direction arrow is smoother and any position c...

Page 11: ...he Double Bar Analog Vario element shows not only the instantaneous vertical speed but also the Average Thermal and Next Expected Thermal McCready Indicator see Figure 3 3 This element can be resized...

Page 12: ...ure 3 5 Navigation Element Navigation information is shown within the inner most circles The external circle contains the cardinal points and the Wind Flag The current traveling direction bearing corr...

Page 13: ...l core is constantly updated as the pilot moves When the pilot is over 300m from the thermal core the dot will be at the edge of the circle As the pilot moves closer to the thermal core the dot will m...

Page 14: ...he pilot is inside the airspace then a black line is used instead Note that being inside a airspace area 2D does not mean that the airspace is being violated since the pilot can be above or below the...

Page 15: ...s a plot of the absolute barometric altitude over the last 4 minutes of ight Figure 3 12 Figure 3 12 Altitude Plot 3 1 8 Wind Arrow The Wind Arrow element Figure 3 13 is a re sizable graphical element...

Page 16: ...ed around the screen Figure 3 15 Map Element A typical map page in ight may look like Figure 20 In this gure is shown the scale on the bottom left The scale can be manually changed by pressing the F1...

Page 17: ...g i e airspace that you are violating or close to violating Floor Shows the lower altitude of the airspace causing the warning i e airspace that you are violating or close to violating Time Current lo...

Page 18: ...s we must sink to come out of controlled airspace CTR Status Status message of airspace will show Violating when in controlled airspace Immenent Alt when close to entering airspace vertically or Pos I...

Page 19: ...eedToFly Optimal Speed to Fly value calculated according the McCready Theory The True Air Speed value is calculated based on the de ned polar and the average thermal speed McRdyNxtThrm Next thermal ex...

Page 20: ...l Fuel level in liters available when connected with Flymaster M1 Arrival Next Estimated arrival height above the next waypoint This means that wind day quality and glider performance are used in the...

Page 21: ...te The GPS SD considers a thermal has been entered when the integrated vario value is above 0 5m s and considers the thermal as been exited when the integrated vario goes bellow 1 0 m s Once in the th...

Page 22: ...Accesses GPS SD s waypoints and Routede nitions see Section 4 1 RouteNavigator Allows manual override of navigation Critical Airspaces This page constantly shows the airspaces which are closer than t...

Page 23: ...instrument1 The rst waypoint on the list appears highlighted and the corresponding data of the selected waypoint is shown in the DO area As the cursor is moved to a di erent waypoint so the data chan...

Page 24: ...the Route select the waypoint that is to be added by pressing either the UP or DOWN buttons until the desired waypoint is highlighted Pressing the ENTER button will add the point onto the TL on the ri...

Page 25: ...o the Waypoints Routewill cancel the active Go To The Go To function will override the Routenavigation although the GPS SD will remember where it was in the Route so when the Go To is canceled as desc...

Page 26: ...DOWN buttons move the task point to the desired position and push ENTER Remove Route Point To remove a task point select it using UP and DOWN buttons and then pushing the ENTER button to activate the...

Page 27: ...he altitude and distance threshold is set to 200 meters then all the airspaces that are closer from the pilot s position than 200 meters are shown on the Critical Airspaces list A typical list of airs...

Page 28: ...ssary glide ratio to reach it is 9 6 The Nearby Landings page can also be used to make a Go To Use the UP and DOWN keys to select the desired waypoint then push the ENTER key to immediately activate n...

Page 29: ...ght Distance Distance own Pushing the ENTER key will display the Flight Log Action List with options Delete ight Delete all ights Each of the options is explained in the following sections Also if you...

Page 30: ...hout data from Flymaster accessories like HEART G or TASProbe which equates to over 36 hours with a 1 second recording interval obviously if you set it to a 10 second recording interval you get 360 ho...

Page 31: ...You can select di erent pages by selecting either the UP or DOWN keys If you press ENTER for a certain page 2 options become available as shown in Figure 4 13 Figure 4 13 Page Options Selecting the Go...

Page 32: ...will be on the Enable Page Pressing ENTER will re enable the page 4 7 Settings Menu The Settings Menu is used to con gure the GPS SD s many features The menu screen is divided into two sections On th...

Page 33: ...ltimeter can be achieved by entering the know altitude of the location Entering an altitude automatically calculates the QNH which is the local barometric pressure adjusted to sea level Alternatively...

Page 34: ...a turn point cylinder See Section 4 5 about track log memory capacity UTC o set Using GPS data the GPS SD automatically adjusts the internal clock to the Universal Coordinated Time UTC The user shoul...

Page 35: ...be set from 500 to 1500 Hz The higher is the frequency value the higher pitched the sound is In order to change the base frequency value press the ENTER key after the Audio Frequencies menu option is...

Page 36: ...parameter speci es which cadence curve should be used Current there are 2 possibilities represented in the graph of Figure 4 21 Figure 4 21 Cadence timing Dynamic Frequency The GPS SD beeps at a speci...

Page 37: ...nding at 0 2 m s At this stage the orange pilot starts to hear the Buzzer brrrrr sound of his GPS SD which helps him to center the thermal while the green pilot is still unaware of the thermal Finally...

Page 38: ...rey lines Set Yes the trace lines in lift will be drawn in black while the sink will be drawn in grey Set to No and all the trace lines will be drawn in black Track up Track up allows the trace to be...

Page 39: ...t and to the left to decrease the contrast When in the desired position push the ENTER key to con rm the value WARNING Beware of adjusting a very low contrast value may cause the display to be totally...

Page 40: ...sider that page 3 is associated with the trigger Airspace Warning and the current displayed page is page 2 If during ight an airspace limit is reached the device will automatic change the page 3 The c...

Page 41: ...taken because all changes made by the user are lost Reset now Makes a hardware reset to the instrument The result is the same as the one presented in Section 1 5 Auto o If set to Yes the GPS SD turns...

Page 42: ...s available 4 7 10 Probe Alerts Figure 4 29 Probe Alerts The GPS SD allows relating alerts with some probes values see Figure 4 29 A short description of each alert is sown in Table 4 6 Table 4 6 Prob...

Page 43: ...aximum and minimum horizontal speed of the glider The point Between should be some point between the Maximum and Minimum Figure 4 31 Polar 4 7 12 FS Keys In Flight Mode keys UP DOWN and ENTER can have...

Page 44: ...done by pressing the MENU key As shown in Figure 4 32 there are 5 parameters related to the airspace which are explained in Table 4 8 Table 4 8 Airspace Menu Settings Function Description CTR dist Th...

Page 45: ...sition dilution of precision pdop shown gives an indication of how reliable the GPS data is at the moment The lower the pdop value the more accurate the position x Values bellow 2 5 are fairly accurat...

Page 46: ...Figure 4 35 GPS Reset 45...

Page 47: ...g route on the GPS Then add to the route in the right order T01 W03 W06 The GPS will automatically assume T01 as the takeo since it is the rst waypoint on the list The completed route should look like...

Page 48: ...he average thermal speed used to calculate the Speed to Fly is manually set by the pilot McCready Ring On the GPS SD this value is calculated by averaging the last thermals climbed Conversely for each...

Page 49: ...re is no need to install further software Figure 7 1 Firmware Menu Option Once the Designer is correctly installed do the following procedure 1 Open the Designer 2 Select Tools Firmware see Figure 7 1...

Page 50: ...Figure 7 2 Firmware Update Done 49...

Page 51: ...stalled on the computer and that GPSDump has been installed 8 1 Con guring GPSDump Before you can start interfacing your Flymaster GPS unit with your computer you must rst make sure that you have set...

Page 52: ...that are currently interfacing with the instrument Flymaster instruments typically populate with high COM port numbers such as COM 11 in the example below Figure 8 3 Figure 8 3 COM port options Once t...

Page 53: ...igure 8 4 Waypoint list Once the le has been opened select alll of the waypoints COMMAND A in MAC and CONTROL A for PC In the drop down menu for WPTS you should see the following options Figure 8 5 52...

Page 54: ...ending the waypoint ID or the waypoint name or both Once you select the type of waypoints to send you should see the the waypoints being sent to the instrument 8 3 Downloading tracklogs To download a...

Page 55: ...on the instrument Figure 8 7 Figure 8 7 Tracklog list Simply clicking on the desired ight will download the tracklog to the computer Once the tracklog has been downloaded it is possible to save the t...

Page 56: ...ng 43 Base Frequency 34 Climb Threshold 33 Delete All Flights 29 Delete Flight 28 Flight Log 27 Increments 34 Memory capacity 29 Sink Alarm 34 Sink Threshold 34 Sound Volume 34 Time Setting 33 Volume...

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