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Page 3: ...3 1 3 Mobile Operator 9 3 1 4 GPS 9 3 1 5 Vario 10 3 1 6 Navigation Circle 11 3 1 7 Airspaces Map 13 3 1 8 Altitude graph 14 3 1 9 Wind Arrow 15 3 1 10 Map Page 15 3 2 Data eld Elements 17 4 Menu mod...
Page 4: ...S Keys 39 4 7 13 Airspace settings 40 4 7 14 GSM Data 41 4 7 15 SMS Con guration 43 4 7 16 GPS status 43 5 RouteDe nition 45 5 1 Route De nition 45 5 2 Setting up the route 45 6 McCready Functions 46...
Page 5: ...n 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 show if it is being Slo...
Page 6: ...ch 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 previews character digit If the ENTER ke...
Page 7: ...ll 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 key is only valid for...
Page 8: ...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 of layouts which can be...
Page 9: ...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 Table 3 1 Battery Element...
Page 10: ...or automatic if no SIM Card is detected 3 1 4 GPS The GPS Element provides graphical indication about the current GPS signal quality Basically the lower the PDOP value position dilution of precision t...
Page 11: ...imbing or sinking Figure 3 1 Figure 3 1 Analog Vario When the GPS SD detects that the pilot is climbing a black bar starts to grow on the left from the bottom of the scale to the top with 0 1 m s incr...
Page 12: ...instantaneous vertical speed Figure 3 4 This element can be resized and re positioned Climb or sink rates are shown by the position of the needle on the analogue dial The maximum and minimum climb rat...
Page 13: ...lightly to the left and inversely arrow 4 to the right indicates a small adjustment to the right is needed When the course is perfect i e less than 1 o the GPS SD indicates this by showing a large arr...
Page 14: ...e of the map is an arrow This arrow represents the pilot position and its orientation indicates the bearing of the movement The map is always oriented North Up Note When new Airspaces data is uploaded...
Page 15: ...ssociated Data Fields When the page contains an airspace map element the UP and DOWN keys can be used to change the map scale pressing the UP key will decrease the scale and the DOWN key will increase...
Page 16: ...ample of Figure 3 14 the wind is blowing from East Both the wind speed and direction value can be seen in a data elds Figure 3 14 Wind Arrow Note that both wind direction and speed are calculated base...
Page 17: ...by pressing the F2 button to reduce the map and therefore increase the scale Figure 3 16 Map Page If ying a competition route the optimized route is drawn between the turnpoint cylinders The position...
Page 18: ...When a pilot enters a thermal the GPS SD will reset the Gain indicator to 0 and will start to track how much altitude the pilot has gained At a certain point in the thermal the lift may become weaker...
Page 19: ...oints and Routede nitions see Sec tion 4 1 RouteNavigator Allows manual override of navigation Critical Airspaces This page constantly shows the airspaces which are closer than the thresholds de ned i...
Page 20: ...ypoint 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 changes matching the newly...
Page 21: ...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 right at this moment the task point o...
Page 22: ...l jump to the ight screen automatically and navigate to that point When returning to the Waypoints Routewill cancel the active Go To The Go To function will override the Routenavigation although the G...
Page 23: ...e 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 Task Point Menu...
Page 24: ...the start has been done 4 3 Critical Airspaces Critical airspace shows a list of airspaces that are closer from the pilot s position than the distance and altitude thresholds de ned in the Airspace Se...
Page 25: ...le to de ne waypoints as Landing allowing the pilot to quickly check for landing options The Nearby Landings page will show all the waypoints de ned as Landings for which the necessary glide ratio is...
Page 26: ...d using UP and DOWN keys For the selected ight additional information is displayed on the bottom half of the screen Max Altitude Maximum altitude during ight ASL T o Alti Take o altitude Above To Alti...
Page 27: ...d ight from memory Before deleting the ight a message is displayed asking the user to con rm the action Figure 4 10 Figure 4 10 Delete Flight Delete All Flights All of the ights in the GPS SD can be d...
Page 28: ...Enable each of the available pages A Layout can include 16 di erent pages and all of them can be drawn using the Flymaster DESIGNER software Figure 4 12 shows an example of what is available in a typi...
Page 29: ...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 the top of the screen all...
Page 30: ...d 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 the altimeter can be ca...
Page 31: ...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 should adjust the UTC o set so that the...
Page 32: ...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 highlighted This action...
Page 33: ...h 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 ed pitch frequency whe...
Page 34: ...s 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 in the 3 zone the air...
Page 35: ...race 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 displayed with either t...
Page 36: ...ontrast 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 blank With a blank screen it is di...
Page 37: ...sociated 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 current available trigge...
Page 38: ...es 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 o if the GPS speed is l...
Page 39: ...e 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 Probe Alerts Alert Descript...
Page 40: ...zontal 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 user de ned functions...
Page 41: ...enu Settings Function Description CTR dist Th Minimum horizontal distance that a pilot can be from an airspace without triggering an airspace warning If this thresh old is passed a warning is emitted...
Page 42: ...he activation deactivation of the GSM Modem and the con guration of the GSM operator Figure 4 34 GSM setup Note By default the GSM modem is turned o The GSM modem should be turn o if not needed in ord...
Page 43: ...example In the example of Figure 4 35 the Username and Password for the Zon Multimedia operator is not needed and the APN name is internet zon pt In order to activate the GSM follow the next steps 1...
Page 44: ...the recipient The number should include the country and area code For example if you want to send an sms to Flymaster insert the number 351256001935 SMS every Set the time interval between each sms se...
Page 45: ...e the position x Values bellow 2 5 are fairly accurate If the GPS SD is switched on in a location where no satellites are visible indoors for example it will go into wide search mode If this occurs go...
Page 46: ...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 in Figure 5 1 Figure 5 1 Route exa...
Page 47: ...d 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 TAS Speed to Fly value...
Page 48: ...l 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 3 Use the new box to c...
Page 49: ...Figure 7 2 Firmware Update Done 48 All manuals and user guides at all guides com...
Page 50: ...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 the correct COM port on...
Page 51: ...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 the COM ports have been con gured yo...
Page 52: ...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 51 All manuals and user g...
Page 53: ...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 track simply click on t...
Page 54: ...re 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 tracklog in several di e...
Page 55: ...Climb Threshold 30 Delete All Flights 26 Delete Flight 26 Flight Log 25 Increments 31 Memory capacity 27 Sink Alarm 31 Sink Threshold 31 Sound Volume 31 Time Setting 30 Volume 31 Wind Arrow 15 54 All...