AVIATION RECORDERS
OPERATOR'S MANUAL
MODEL FA2100GSE
PORTABLE INTERFACE (PI)
Stand Alone Operation
Aug. 01/03
Rev. 03 Page 7-8
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Page 1: ...ENT PART NUMBERS 17TES0043 PORTABLE INTERFACE PI 17TES0054 PI MEMORY CARD MODULE 17TES0051 PI AUDIO READOUT CABLE 17TES0052 PI AUX READOUT CABLE 17TES0074 PI AUX POWER CABLE PN 165E1630 00 L3 Communic...
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Page 3: ...MODEL FA2100GSE PORTABLE INTERFACE PI Rev 05 Page iii Sep 06 13 Record of Revisions RECORD OF REVISIONS Rev No Insertion Date By 01 May 01 99 CM 02 June 01 03 JG 03 Aug 01 03 JG 04 June 15 05 JG 05 S...
Page 4: ...AVIATION RECORDERS OPERATOR S MANUAL MODEL FA2100GSE PORTABLE INTERFACE PI Rev 05 Page iv Sep 06 13 Record of Revisions THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK...
Page 5: ...03 Rev 5 2 2 Sep 06 13 PI Operation With a FA2100 CVR Rev 1 3 1 May 01 99 Rev 5 3 2 Sep 06 13 Rev 1 3 3 May 01 99 Rev 1 3 4 May 01 99 Rev 1 3 5 May 01 99 Rev 1 3 6 May 01 99 Rev 4 3 7 Jun 15 05 Rev 1...
Page 6: ...3 Rev 5 6 3 Sep 06 13 Rev 5 6 4 Sep 06 13 Rev 5 6 5 Sep 06 13 Rev 5 6 6 Sep 06 13 Rev 5 6 7 Sep 06 13 Rev 5 6 8 Sep 06 13 Rev 3 6 8 Aug 01 03 Operating Procedures Rev 3 8 1 Aug 01 03 Rev 3 8 2 Aug 01...
Page 7: ...ERISTICS 2 1 2 4 INTERFACE 2 1 2 5 ENVIRONMENTAL 2 1 2 6 SOFTWARE VERSION 2 1 3 1 PI OPERATION WITH A FA2100 CVR 3 1 3 2 MAIN MENU 3 1 3 3 MONITOR MENU 3 5 3 3 1 Voice and Cockpit Area Microphone Chan...
Page 8: ...ITH A FA2100 FDR 4 1 4 2 MAIN MENU 4 1 4 3 WORD MONITOR MENU 4 1 4 4 SET MARKER 4 1 4 5 COPY MENU 4 5 4 5 1 File Name Entry Field FILE ID 4 5 4 5 2 Disk File Names 4 6 4 5 3 START CLEAR Tags 4 6 4 6 S...
Page 9: ...5 2 6 Status Control Menu 5 7 5 2 7 Special Functions Menu 5 7 5 2 7 1 Version ID 5 8 5 2 7 2 Set Clear Test Conditions Menu 5 8 5 2 7 2 1 FDR Fault Detection Subsystem 5 8 5 2 7 2 2 Latched Fault Co...
Page 10: ...ault Indicator 5 18 5 3 8 3 Delete File From Disk 5 19 5 3 8 4 Display GMT Rotor Speed 5 19 5 3 8 5 Fault Log To File 5 19 5 3 8 5 1 File Name Entry Field 5 19 5 3 8 5 2 Disk File Names 5 19 5 3 8 5 3...
Page 11: ...layback Control Menu 7 4 7 2 4 CVR File Control Menu 7 4 7 2 4 1 File Playback Menu 7 4 7 2 4 2 Keypad Key Remapping During File Playback 7 5 7 2 4 3 File Playback Menu Displays 7 5 7 2 5 GMT FSK Data...
Page 12: ...1 Portable Interface Unit PI p n 17TES0043 3 2 Figure 3 2 Portable Interface Unit CVR Menu Structures 3 3 Figure 3 3 GMT FSK and Rotor Speed FSK 32 Bit Format 3 7 Figure 4 1 Portable Interface Unit FD...
Page 13: ...0 07 Component Maintenance Manuals CMMs To support data retrieval operations the PI contains a PC Card PCMCIA slot located in the bottom end of the unit under the end cap This slot is used in conjunct...
Page 14: ...tandards Organization JEIDA Japan Electronic Industry Development Association LSB Least Significant Bit Mbit Megabit Mbytes Megabytes MOPS Minimum Operational Performance Specification MEM Memory mW m...
Page 15: ...y be used to provide power to the PI in stand alone opera tion For all PIs produced after S N 231480 the interface connector has been modified to prevent any potential grounding issues Modification ca...
Page 16: ...s that control the up down left and right cursor movement on the display The SELECT key located in the center of the four cursor position keys is used to indicate a menu or action selection to the PI...
Page 17: ...wnload CVR audio data to PCMCIA drive card HW Mod Dot 2 Provides capability to use PI with long cable HW Mod Dot 3 Improved power supply for use with longer cables HW Mod Dot 4 Allows PI to playback C...
Page 18: ...n SET MARKER XX FDR WORD MONITOR COPY CVR MONITOR PLAYBACK STATUS CONTROL SPECIAL FUNCTIONS SELECT DELETE MENU AUDIO GMT ROTOR FSK PI AUX READOUT CABLE 17TES0052 TO RECORDER GSE CONNECTOR PI AUDIO REA...
Page 19: ...MENU CLEAR LATCHED FAULT CLEAR FAULT LOG RELEASE FAULT GSE ON FAULT GSE OFF FAULT GSE CVR CVR CVR PLAYBACK CONTROL MENU HQ VOICE CH 1 OFF ON CH 2 OFF ON CH 3 OFF ON HQ CAM CH 4 OFF ON SQ VOICE CH 1 3...
Page 20: ...F PLAY CTRL MENU KEYPAD DUMPING FAULT LOG TO XXXX FLT This halts recording DUMPING TRACE LOG TO Note Data enclosed in parentheses does not appear on the PI menus and is provided in these figures for c...
Page 21: ...CT OFF DEC HEX or OCT 2 For Word Selection Use Cursor Arrows to Highlight Number and Press Select Center Button 3 Use Delete Button to ERASE Word Number Selection SET MARKER XX K L M N O P Q R S T U V...
Page 22: ...MIT A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z _ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CLEAR START B C TRACE MESSAGES START FILE ID 11 CHAR LIMIT A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z _ 0 1 2 3 4...
Page 23: ...00 compressed flt Fault log cvr FA2100 FA2300 compressed audio data crr CVR NAND compressed audio data trc Trace log CVR with NOR memory all audio download the CVR file extensions will be cvr CVR with...
Page 24: ...AVIATION RECORDERS OPERATOR S MANUAL MODEL FA2100GSE PORTABLE INTERFACE PI Rev 05 Page 1 12 Sep 06 13 Introduction THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK...
Page 25: ...uts 7 key keypad Outputs 8 line by 21 column display EL backlighting Internal Speaker 1 Watt 6 analog audio channel 10 mW 3 dB into 600 ohms 1 4 Headphone Jack 15 mW into 600 ohms GMT FSK output Refer...
Page 26: ...AL The PI will meet the following environmental requirements Operating Temperature 0_C to 50_C Storage Temperature 20_C to 60_C Vibration None Impact None EMI CE Humidity and Liquid Submersion None 2...
Page 27: ...When the highlight is positioned over a particular entry that entry can be selected by pressing the SELECT key When a particular entry is se lected a new menu appears The up and down arrow keys have...
Page 28: ...Page 3 2 May 01 99 CVR MONITOR PLAYBACK STATUS CONTROL SPECIAL FUNCTIONS SELECT DELETE MENU AUDIO GMT ROTOR FSK PI AUX READOUT CABLE 17TES0052 TO RECORDER GSE CONNECTOR PI AUDIO READOUT CABLE 17TES00...
Page 29: ...S MENU CLEAR LATCHED FAULT CLEAR FAULT LOG RELEASE FAULT GSE ON FAULT GSE OFF FAULT GSE CVR CVR CVR PLAYBACK CONTROL MENU HQ VOICE CH 1 OFF ON CH 2 OFF ON CH 3 OFF ON HQ CAM CH 4 OFF ON SQ VOICE CH 1...
Page 30: ...R F PLAY CTRL MENU KEYPAD DUMPING FAULT LOG TO XXXX FLT This halts recording DUMPING TRACE LOG TO Note Data enclosed in parentheses does not appear on the PI menus and is provided in these figures for...
Page 31: ...ggle between hearing normal or reconstructed audio In the Normal Mode the channel audio is monitored from the Recorder s Acquisition Processor PWA prior to being written into flash memory in the Crash...
Page 32: ...e end of the recording D ROTOR Displays Rotor Speed FSK data in Hertz Hz D GMT Displays GMT FSK data in Hours Minutes Seconds XX XX XX Paragraphs 3 4 3 and 3 4 4 contain additional information on the...
Page 33: ...resent the reference count and bits 21 32 represent the rotor pulse count These counts are output as presented by the FA2100 over the GSE TDM bus words 24 and 25 The output signal has an output imped...
Page 34: ...Record Made Hours XX Minutes XX Seconds XX D File Size Kbytes D Record Duration Hours XX Minutes XX Seconds XX The operator can select the particular file of interest by using the DOWN cursor position...
Page 35: ...s on the menu The File ID is a field in the file header that can be recovered when the file is analyzed 3 4 6 4 Disk File Names All file names written to the disk as a result of copying CVR data have...
Page 36: ...esting purposes 3 6 2 1 CVR Fault Detection Subsystem If Set Clear Test Conditions is selected a menu appears for testing the fault detection subsys tem of the CVR The user can position the highlight...
Page 37: ...a File name Entry Field File ID near the top of the menu The rest of the menu is taken up primarily by an array of selection characters A cursor will appear over one of them The user can select chara...
Page 38: ...when the CLEAR tag is highlighted the entire File ID entry field will be blanked 3 6 6 Dumping Trace Messages To The PI Disk Trace Messages provide information in near real time on the functions bein...
Page 39: ...follows 1 To increase the contrast darken the screen position the highlight over top entry on the menu and press the up arrow key 2 To decrease the contrast brighten the screen position the highlight...
Page 40: ...RFACE PI FDR Operation Rev 05 Page 4 2 Sep 06 13 SET MARKER XX FDR WORD MONITOR COPY STATUS CONTROL SPECIAL FUNCTIONS SELECT DELETE MENU AUDIO GMT ROTOR FSK TO RECORDER GSE CONNECTOR Sarasota Florida...
Page 41: ...CT OFF DEC HEX or OCT 2 For Word Selection Use Cursor Arrows to Highlight Number and Press Select Center Button 3 Use Delete Button to ERASE Word Number Selection SET MARKER XX K L M N O P Q R S T U V...
Page 42: ...MIT A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z _ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CLEAR START B C TRACE MESSAGES START FILE ID 11 CHAR LIMIT A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z _ 0 1 2 3 4...
Page 43: ...so the user can delete one or more digits from the word number select field by pressing the red DELETE key as required The word number selection is deleted by pressing the DELETE key 4 5 COPY MENU The...
Page 44: ...the top of the menu will be highlighted and will be defaulted to the full copy mode The user can cycle through the modes using the select key 4 6 1 Full Copy Copy from Last Copy Mode If the user selec...
Page 45: ...ropriate error message will appear on the screen In version 1 0 the error message appears for 5 seconds and then the screen reverts to the main menu In later ver sions the copy error message will pers...
Page 46: ...creen and press the SELECT key to take the indicated action The only feedback indicating that the action has taken place will be that the highlight will flash off and then on again 4 8 2 2 Latched Fau...
Page 47: ...E ID that are not legal DOS filename characters will be changed to zeros But the entire FILE ID will be copied into the file ID exactly as it appears on the menu The file ID is a field in the file hea...
Page 48: ...Special Functions Menu highlight TRACE MESSAGES and press SELECT Select a File ID at the next menu and press START to start dumping a Trace Log to the PI disk The CVR can be recording while this func...
Page 49: ...contrast brighten the screen position the highlight over the bottom entry and press the down arrow key The contrast adjustment occurs in small increments so the operator may have to press the appropr...
Page 50: ...XX FDR WORD MONITOR COPY CVR MONITOR PLAYBACK STATUS CONTROL SPECIAL FUNCTIONS SELECT DELETE MENU AUDIO GMT ROTOR FSK PI AUX READOUT CABLE 17TES0052 TO RECORDER GSE CONNECTOR PI AUDIO READOUT CABLE 1...
Page 51: ...tion field Also the user can de lete one or more digits from the word number select field by pressing the red DELETE key as required The word number selection is deleted by pressing the DELETE key 5 2...
Page 52: ...me Default OCT OFF DEC HEX or OCT 2 For Word Selection Use Cursor Arrows to Highlight Number and Press Select Center Button 3 Use Delete Button to ERASE Word Number Selection SET MARKER XX K L M N O P...
Page 53: ...D 11 CHAR LIMIT A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z _ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 CLEAR START B C TRACE MESSAGES START FILE ID 11 CHAR LIMIT A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z...
Page 54: ...tion field at the top of the menu will be highlighted and will be defaulted to the full copy mode The user can cycle through the modes using the select key 5 2 4 1 Full Copy Copy from Last Copy Mode I...
Page 55: ...message will appear on the screen In version 1 0 the error message appears for 5 seconds and then the screen reverts to the main menu In later versions the copy error message will persist until the g...
Page 56: ...nes on this screen and press the SELECT key to take the indicated action The only feedback indicating that the action has taken place will be that the highlight will flash off and then on again 5 2 7...
Page 57: ...ters in the FILE ID that are not legal DOS filename characters will be changed to zeros But the entire FILE ID will be copied into the file ID exactly as it ap pears on the menu The file ID is a field...
Page 58: ...isk access the Special Functions Menu highlight TRACE MESSAGES and press SELECT Select a File ID at the next menu and press START to start dumping a Trace Log to the PI disk The CVR can be recording w...
Page 59: ...row key from the UP or DOWN field The operator can then toggle between hearing normal or reconstructed audio In the Normal Mode the channel audio is monitored from the Recorder s Acquisition Proc esso...
Page 60: ...EAR TEST CNDTNS MENU CLEAR LATCHED FAULT CLEAR FAULT LOG RELEASE FAULT GSE ON FAULT GSE OFF FAULT GSE CVR CVR CVR PLAYBACK CONTROL MENU HQ VOICE CH 1 OFF ON CH 2 OFF ON CH 3 OFF ON HQ CAM CH 4 OFF ON...
Page 61: ...N XXXX XXXX CVR F PLAY CTRL MENU KEYPAD DUMPING FAULT LOG TO XXXX FLT This halts recording DUMPING TRACE LOG TO Note Data enclosed in parentheses does not appear on the PI menus and is provided in the...
Page 62: ...seconds from the end of the recording D ROTOR Displays Rotor Speed FSK data in Hertz Hz D GMT Displays GMT FSK data in Hours Minutes Seconds XX XX XX Paragraphs 5 3 3 and 5 3 4 contain additional info...
Page 63: ...present the reference count and bits 21 32 represent the rotor pulse count These counts are output as present ed by the FA2100 over the GSE TDM bus words 24 and 25 The output signal has an output impe...
Page 64: ...ion includes D File Name And Field Identify the file being played back D Date Record Made Day 2 digits Month 3 letters Year 4 digits D Time Record Made Hours XX Minutes XX Seconds XX D File Size Kbyte...
Page 65: ...that are not legal DOS file name charac ters will be changed to zeros But the entire file id will be copied into the file id exactly as it appears on the menu The File ID is a field in the file heade...
Page 66: ...em clear recorder Fault History Logs or generate Fault Condition indications for testing purposes 5 3 8 2 1 CVR Fault Detection Subsystem If Set Clear Test Conditions is selected a menu appears for te...
Page 67: ...Entry Field There is a File name Entry Field File ID near the top of the menu The rest of the menu is taken up primarily by an array of selection characters A cursor will appear over one of them The u...
Page 68: ...resses SELECT when the CLEAR tag is highlighted the entire File ID entry field will be blanked 5 3 8 6 Dumping Trace Messages To The PI Disk Trace Messages provide information in near real time on the...
Page 69: ...the PI memory Card as a dlr file 6 2 MAIN MENU The PI is illustrated in Figure 4 1 and Figure 6 2 illustrates the PI FDR menu structure When the P1 starts up connected to a FA2100 FDR configuration th...
Page 70: ...getting this message are FDR recording is off no Flight Data Ac quisition Unit FDAU stream is coming into the FDR or the FDR cannot sync to the FDAU stream See Status Control for FDR recording turn o...
Page 71: ...ACE PI DataLink Retrival Rev 05 Page 6 3 Sep 06 13 SET MARKER XX FDR WORD MONITOR COPY STATUS CONTROL SPECIAL FUNCTIONS SELECT DELETE MENU AUDIO GMT ROTOR FSK TO RECORDER GSE CONNECTOR Sarasota Florid...
Page 72: ...Frame Default OCT OFF DEC HEX or OCT 2 For Word Selection Use Cursor Arrows to Highlight Number and Press Select Center Button 3 Use Delete Button to ERASE Word Number Selection SET MARKER XX K L M N...
Page 73: ...FAULT LOG TO XXXX FLT This halts recording _ DUMPING TRACE LOG TO XXXX TRC Press MENU to end Note Data enclosed in parentheses does not appear on the PI menus and is provided in these figures for cla...
Page 74: ...the name of the file to which the data is to be copied 6 5 1 File Name Entry Field FILE ID There is a file name entry field FILE ID near the top of the menu The rest of the menu is taken up primarily...
Page 75: ...ne Then enter the number of hours in the same way that the word number selection was entered in the Word Monitor Menu When this entry is com pleted press the UP arrow once to highlight the START COPY...
Page 76: ...of the FDR The user can also start and stop recording from this screen When recording is started the screen will show the various phases of the data locking process SEARCH and LOCK as they happen Othe...
Page 77: ...will ask the question ARE YOU SURE which enables the operator to delete the file or to cancel the deletion 6 8 4 Fault Log To File To perform this selection a disk must be installed in the PI and the...
Page 78: ...and then press SELECT to start dumping the Fault Log to the disk location selected at the FILE ID entry field After this function is accomplished the PI screen automatically returns to the Main Menu N...
Page 79: ...of the data stored on memory cards In order to operate the PI in Simulated CVR Mode power must be provided to the PI through the Auxiliary Power Cable This cable must be attached to the end of the re...
Page 80: ...among the options listed above by using the up and down arrow keys When the highlight is positioned over a par ticular entry that entry can be selected by pressing the SELECT key When a particular ent...
Page 81: ...Kbytes TIME RECORD MADE RECORD DURATION BACK 03 APR 1999 11 30 10 HRS MIN SEC HR MIN SECS COPY PLAY DISPLAY GMT ROTOR DELETE FILE FROM DISK FAULT LOG TO FILE TRACE MSGS TO FILE RED KEY A B C D E F G H...
Page 82: ...VR File Control Menu The CVR File Control Menu enables the operator to identify each file and select it for Play back or for copy to the disk mounted in The PI As shown in Figure 7 2 CVR file identifi...
Page 83: ...enu Displays D MODE The playback mode PLAY STOP FFWD RWD and END BEGIN is displayed when selected at the remapped keypad keys D POSITION Displays position of the memory in hours minutes and seconds fr...
Page 84: ...0 represent the reference count and bits 21 32 represent the rotor pulse count These counts are output as present ed by the FA2100 over the GSE TDM bus words 24 and 25 The output signal has an output...
Page 85: ...ble but perform no functions in Simulated CVR mode 7 2 7 1 Delete File From Disk Selecting Delete File From Disk brings up the File Deletion Menu Enter the required in formation File ID File Name etc...
Page 86: ...AVIATION RECORDERS OPERATOR S MANUAL MODEL FA2100GSE PORTABLE INTERFACE PI Stand Alone Operation Aug 01 03 Rev 03 Page 7 8 THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK...
Page 87: ...NG TRACE MESSAGES TO A DATA FILE 8 2 STARTING SIMULATED CVR MODE This procedure is only performed in order to start the PI in Simulated CVR mode BEFORE power is applied to the PI unit the following pr...
Page 88: ...of the volume status can be found at bottom of both the Monitor and File Control Menus INCREASE the volume by positioning the highlight over the Up option and pressing the Select button The volume ind...
Page 89: ...minute increments END OF FILE START OF FILE mode may be obtained by pressing the Down arrow which has no tape recorder equivalent This button will alternately move to the End of the recording or the S...
Page 90: ...while the PI is in FDR or CVDR modes SELECT the Set Marker Menu on the Main Menu to set a memory marker at the current point in the recorder s memory 8 12 DOWNLOAD FDR DATA FROM RECORDER This procedur...
Page 91: ...SELECT the Version ID Menu from the Special Functions Menu RETURN to the Main Menu by pressing the Menu button on the PI keypad 8 15 CLEARING SETTING RECORDER FAULT CODES This procedure may be perform...
Page 92: ...while the PI is in CVR CVDR or FDR modes A data disk must be present in the PI and the recorder must not be in Record mode SELECT the Special Functions Menu from the Main Menu SELECT the Fault Log to...
