Nesis
— User’s Manual
2. Nesis Basics
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Nesis Basics
This chapter describes the organization of the Nesis instrument. It teaches you about the
individual buttons and their meaning. After reading you will be familiar with basic Nesis
operations. Forthcoming sections reveal the details.
2.1
Command Panel
The Nesis command panel is organized according to figure 3. It uses eight push buttons and
one rotating knob to manipulate the user interface. Additionally, it has an USB port
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used
for software, chart and data updates.
Figure 3:
Organization of Nesis front panel.
Here is a brief description of individual items:
The
On/Off
button is used to turn Nesis on/off.
The
USB port
(or
SD card
slot) is used for software, chart and data updates.
The
OK/Menu
button is used to confirm selection, to accept a decision or to display a
menu.
The
rotating knob
, hereinafter referred to as
the knob
, is mostly used to select things,
change values, change zoom levels, etc.
The
Cancel/Esc
button is used to reject selection, to cancel some decision or to
change/escape to some other selection level.
The multi-function buttons
Btn 1 ...Btn 5
have two modes:
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Some earlier versions use SD card slot for the same purpose. In this case SD card also stores all map files
and it must be kept inserted during the flight.
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Kanardia
2011
