Flymaster Avionics, Lda
User Manual
v.1.0
Page 1: ...Flymaster Avionics Lda User Manual v 1 0...
Page 2: ...e without notice Flymaster Avionics reserves 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 i...
Page 3: ...lifespan 17 Charging is easy 17 Avoid extreme ambient temperatures 17 Keys and User Interface 19 Main menu navigation keys 19 Enter change values in Sub menus 20 Setting the volume 21 Zoom and pan ma...
Page 4: ...evel 29 Floor 29 G Force 29 G R Next 29 G R Toff 29 GPS Alti 29 Ground 29 Heading 29 Latitude 29 Longitude 29 Max Altitude 29 Max Climb 29 Max Sink 29 Max G 29 Max Speed 29 Min Altitude 29 Odometer 29...
Page 5: ...it waypoint 40 Delete Waypoint 41 Delete all waypoints 41 Go to point 41 Edit route 41 Load waypoints from file 41 Nearby landings 42 Route Navigator 43 Nearby Airspaces 44 Airspace detail 45 Flight L...
Page 6: ...arm 50 Altitude alarm 50 Airspace settings 51 CTR Distance Threshold 51 CTR alt Threshold 51 Ignore above 51 Ref altitude 51 Enabled 51 Grey lines 51 Source 51 Airspace classes 52 Trace 53 Enabled 53...
Page 7: ...ink Threshold 61 Climb Threshold 61 Sink Alarm 61 Base Frequency 62 Increments 62 Cadence 62 Buzzer 62 Damper 63 Dynamic Frequency 63 Advanced Settings 64 Auto Silent 64 Start Speed 64 GPS 65 GPS sate...
Page 8: ...r 10 1200 mbar Audio On board piezo system for vario and alerts Memory expansion Micro SD card 16 Gb already included GPS 72 channel BeiDou Galileo GLONASS GPS Microprocessor Microprocessor with propr...
Page 9: ...Page 9 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Overview...
Page 10: ...which we consider to be ideal for seeing and being seen by other aircraft The antenna included with the instrument is engraved with Flymaster branding to avoid any swapping or confusion Any antenna ot...
Page 11: ...Page 11 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Antenna cap When the pilot does not want or does not need to fly with the Flarm antenna must place the rubber cap supplied to cover the antenna socket...
Page 12: ...ww flymaster net downloads 2 Create a Flymaster Cloud account if you don t already have one After the account creation go to https livetrack360 com login 3 Register the instrument in your account http...
Page 13: ...ardware Reset If for some reason your instrument becomes unresponsive you can force a reset to force his reboot Press the power together with the menu esc button at the same time for 2 or 3 seconds an...
Page 14: ...on your instrument does not start and keeps rebooting without any apparent reason it s possible to put it in recovery mode so the firmware can be restored via Flymaster Instrument Manager Check the Yo...
Page 15: ...e C port Original Flymaster accessories are recommended in order to avoid damage to the power management system Charging and battery status information is shown on both the power up screen and the set...
Page 16: ...ery status GPS M is charging turned off GPS M is charging turned on Go to Menu Device settings Battery Actual battery percentage Slow char or Quick Char Charge up Time Time to achieve full charge Cur...
Page 17: ...the next day you will have discharged a total of 100 and the two days will add up to one charge cycle It could take several days to complete a cycle The capacity of any type of battery will diminish a...
Page 18: ...scharge your instrument s battery charge it to around 50 If you store a device when its battery is fully discharged the battery could fall into a deep discharge state which renders it incapable of hol...
Page 19: ...Page 19 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Keys and User Interface Main menu navigation keys Use cursor buttons to choose the desired operation Push enter button to confirm and enter the Sub menus...
Page 20: ...0 Enter change values in Sub menus Press UP and DOWN cursor buttons to chose an option in a list menu Press UP and DOWN cursor buttons to change value Press ENTER to accept the value and skip to next...
Page 21: ...3 Press ENTER to confirm Zoom and pan map object In any layout that contains a Map road airspace or route object is possible to Zoom Press long zoom button Zoom mode is shown over the map object indic...
Page 22: ...and which will be default to the instrument The description of each data field is available in this user manual in the section available data fields The description of each object is available in this...
Page 23: ...Page 23 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Page 2 Airspace 1 Vario 2 Navigation wheel 3 Wind arrow 4 GPS Altitude 5 Distance to CTR 6 Altitude to CTR 7 CTR Status 8 Map airspace 1 2 3 5 6 8 4 7...
Page 24: ...e 24 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Page 3 Thermal 1 Ground altitude 2 GPS Altitude 3 Navigation wheel 4 Wind arrow 5 Vario 6 Active waypoint 7 Dist Edge 8 Compass 9 Speed 10 AGL 1 2 4 5 10 3 8 6 7...
Page 25: ...Page 25 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Page 4 Route 1 Altitude 2 Speed 3 Vario 4 Map route 1 2 4 3...
Page 26: ...Page 26 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Page 5 Roads 1 Altitude 2 Speed 3 AGL 4 Altitude gain 5 Flight duration 6 Map roads 1 2 4 5 3 6...
Page 27: ...7 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Page 6 Section Cut side view 1 Altitude 2 Speed 3 Flight duration 4 Altitude gain 5 AGL 6 CTR Status 7 Altitude to CTR 8 Distance to CTR 9 Cut side view 2 1 8 5 3 9...
Page 28: ...ulated using an integration time constant in order to indicate smoother climbing rates AveROT Average rate of turn in degrees per second Battery Shows battery strength as a percentage of complete char...
Page 29: ...a flight has started it shows the maximum rate of climb encountered during the flight This value uses the instantaneous rate of climb This value is reset when the instrument is switched off Max Sink...
Page 30: ...Page 30 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Wind Dir Wind direction in degrees calculated from gps when drifting Wind Speed Calculated wind speed using GPS speed...
Page 31: ...rrent volume level This element has fixed dimensions GPS The GPS Element provides graphical indication about the current GPS signal quality Basically the lower the PDOP value position dilution of prec...
Page 32: ...l point is pointed by an arrow larger arrow The optimal point corresponds to the unique point on the waypoint cylinder which lies along the optimal route If no route is defined the arrow will start sh...
Page 33: ...ul feature of the Navigation Circle Element is the thermal core ball This map corresponds to a black dot which is shown inside the inner navigation wheel together with the navigation arrows During a t...
Page 34: ...d is blowing from South Profile Widget The Profile view or cut side view projection allows you to visualize the terrain ahead and the corresponding airspaces Airspaces are represented by lines showing...
Page 35: ...ts the pilot position and its orientation indicates the bearing of the movement The map is always oriented North Up Note When new Airspaces data element is uploaded to the GPS M using F I M the previe...
Page 36: ...violation some data fields should be added to the layout This data fields are Distance to CTR Altitude to CTR and CTR Status The Dist CTR data field shows the shortest horizontal distance to the near...
Page 37: ...Page 37 Flymaster GPS M User Manual v 1 0 Route...
Page 38: ...direction direction the wind is coming from For example if the pilot is facing the wind then the arrow points south bottom of the screen Cantered over the arrow is a circle in which a number is displa...
Page 39: ...ompass The compass includes an red top arrow which is always aligned with the GPS M If the GPS M is turned the cardinal points will also turn in order the arrow tip points the right cardinal point In...
Page 40: ...the waypoint list If the GPS is fix then the co ordinates and altitude used for the waypoint are based on the current position Edit waypoint Entering this menu allows the properties of the selected wa...
Page 41: ...ation to the selected waypoint Once selected by pressing the ENTER button the instrument will jump to the flight screen automatically and navigate to that point When returning to the Waypoints Route w...
Page 42: ...t name the distance and glide ratio are also shown The list is sorted by glide ratio in ascending order On the example of Figure the closest airfield is 0 803 Km from our present location and the nece...
Page 43: ...for some reason a mistake was made during the creation of the route When this option is selected the GPS M displays the route waypoints list Using the UP and DOWN buttons the desired waypoint can be s...
Page 44: ...space Settings This list is generated when in flight mode and is ordered by the sequence in which the airspace appears in the file used to create the airspace For example if the altitude and distance...
Page 45: ...populated with the airspace data The Distance to the CTR The Altitude which is the reference altitude for the airspace The floor of the airspace which is the lowest altitude of the airspace The ceilin...
Page 46: ...e top half of the screen lists details stored in memory Each flight is identified by the take off date time and flight duration After pressing ENTER in a flight log there are 3 options available Gener...
Page 47: ...strument to load the factory settings On Landing If set to Yes the GPS M turns OFF if the GPS speed is less than 5 km h and integrated vario less than 1 5 m s for more than 30 seconds User Pilot name...
Page 48: ...adjusted to sea level QNH Alternatively the altimeter can be calibrated by adjusting the QNH for the local and time Changing the QNH will adjust the barometric altitude Altitude can also be set from...
Page 49: ...io is calculated by integrating the vertical speed during a period of X seconds defined by this value In the example the integration period is 5 seconds default value UTC offset Using GPS data the GPS...
Page 50: ...or that the pilot has crossed a turnpoint Airspace alarm A siren type sound is produced and voice warnings indicating that the pilot has entered the buffer zone close to airspace Altitude alarm A sir...
Page 51: ...warnings Ignore above You can set an altitude at which to ignore any airspace Ref altitude Here you can define the type of altitude reference for airspace warnings It can be set by barometric altitud...
Page 52: ...space classes Here you can selectively define which type of airspace class you want to disable This setting is especially useful for disabling airspace warnings that are allowed to free flying aircraf...
Page 53: ...thermal Zoom level this will define the amount of zoom trace when entering a thermal making it easy to understand the location of the thermal Grey lines Set Yes the trace lines in lift will be drawn...
Page 54: ...Instrument manager Page event triggers are a important unique feature of the GPS M Pages can be automatically activated switch to during flight by associating one of the pre defined trigger events wit...
Page 55: ...he current field value and highlights the following field Pushing the ESC key will undo changes Language Defines the interface language Altitude units Altitude Units Altitude can be show in Meters or...
Page 56: ...quipped with bi directional FLARM for example a LIVE DS with the optional FLARM AWARE but the GPS M will not be able to see or alert of the presence of other aircraft Even so the FLARM beacon is curre...
Page 57: ...he instrument slowly in all possible axes freely A 20 second countdown will be visible as the calibration status During and after the process the result of the calibration quality is shown which varie...
Page 58: ...u can be used to switch page or to Disable Enable each of the available pages A Layout can include 8 different pages in portrait and 8 in landscape and all of them can be drawn using the Flymaster Ins...
Page 59: ...ing the a function key It is also possible to disable a page so that when you toggle through the different pages that page is not displayed Also all triggers associated with the disabled page will be...
Page 60: ...the start of any flight be sure to check what Datum is used by the scoring system to ensure that the correct distances are being reported Angle Angle units to be used during navigation Sort WP by Dist...
Page 61: ...r is 2 m s we suggest setting a value lower than the natural sink rate of the glider when flying with speed bar in still air Climb Threshold The Climb Threshold defines the rate of climb at which the...
Page 62: ...e for Base Frq is 700 Hz Increments The Increments parameter sets the frequency increment for each 0 1 m s climb rate increase The increments can be set from 1 to 99 Hz The pre set value for Increment...
Page 63: ...of the thermal the air is rising at 0 8 m s and so pilots are descending at 0 2 m s At this stage the orange pilot starts to hear the Buzzer brrrrr sound of his GPS M which helps him to centre the th...
Page 64: ...tions and it is used to define the minimum GPS speed in Km h that should be reached in order to initiate the flight Note that the Start Flight event is important to many other functionalities so care...
Page 65: ...lower the pdop value the more accurate the position fix Values bellow 2 5 are fairly accurate If the GPS M is switched on in a location where no satellites are visible indoors for example it will go...
Page 66: ...master Instrument Manager application and if your instrument is connected to your computer s USB port it may be possible that there is a new firmware version available for your instrument If you want...
Page 67: ...and tools 1 Previous Page 2 Connection state and info 3 Page name click to edit Can be visible in a data field 3 Connection state and info 4 Next Page 5 Pages Layouts 6 Update firmware tool 7 Current...
Page 68: ...ut as a file 4 Send pages layout to instrument 5 Delete layout page 6 Page Triggers auto page switching behaviour 7 Rotate layout 8 Current selected tool 9 Wind arrow object 10 GSM status object 11 Cu...
Page 69: ...and objects After dragging a data field or double click it will show the customization pop up window of it It s possible to change The datafield data you want to see The title font size The title bac...
Page 70: ...age layout you can configure the page trigger for each page The page trigger it s a auto page switching when the instrument understands the pilot position of behaviour When that behaviour is achieved...
Page 71: ...0 Manual firmware update In this tool you can force manual firmware update Just download the firmware package file from the Flymaster website and save it to your hard drive Then just point your locati...
