Aetos User’s Manual
5.2
Copy Flight to USB
Fuel used
during engine run.
Avg fuel
average fuel consumption during engine run.
Please note that the fuel used and average fuel consumption strongly depend
on the fuel flow measurement/estimation. If fuel flow is wrong, these two
items will be wrong, too.
5.2
Copy Flight to USB
The
Copy flight to USB
option creates two files on the USB stick for the
selected flight. One file has .kml extension and the other has .tab extension.
The file name is a combination of pilot name, date and flight made on this
date. For example a file name
ALES13-08-18-B
means: pilot name is ALES,
flight was taken on 13-th of August 2018 and letter
B
means that this was
the second flight of the day.
5.2.1
The Kml File
The kml file stores 3D points of the flight and can be viewed in any third party
software, which accepts such format. One such software is Google Earth, but
many others are supporting this format as well. Figures 22 and 23 show two
examples. First is the top view of a flight and the second one is a detail with
visible vertical profile.
5.2.2
The Tab File
The tab file stores a detailed information for every recorded second. The
recording typically starts when engine start is detected and ends when engine
is stopped.
The
Tab
file format is a plain text format, where each row represents one
record and parameters in the record are separated by a tab character. Each
record has several flight and engine parameters like: date, time, position,
altitude, static pressure, velocities, wind speeds, engine temperatures, engine
pressures, RPMs and many others. Typically, the file is opened with Microsoft
Excel or with LibreOffice Calc.
Here are the steps needed to open the file in LibreOffice Calc. Steps in Mi-
crosoft Excel are similar.
1. Start the LibreOffice Calc.
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