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Страница 2: ...to change or improve its products and to make changes in the content without obliga tion to notify any person or organisation of such changes or improvements Visit the Flymaster Avionics website www y...
Страница 3: ...nd 8 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 1 11 Compass 16 3 2 Data eld...
Страница 4: ...10 14Data elds 50 4 10 15FS Keys 50 4 10 16Navigation Settings 51 4 10 17Airspace settings 52 4 10 18GSM Data 53 4 10 19SMS Con guration 55 4 10 20GPS status 55 5 TaskDe nition 57 6 McCready Functions...
Страница 5: ...on both the power up screen and the Shutdown menu When the Flymaster LIVE 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 S...
Страница 6: ...data elds the associated menu option becomes grayed and the respective eld data item is highlighted Using the UP and DOWN keys changes the value on each eld Pushing the ENTER key moves to the next eld...
Страница 7: ...croll 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 f...
Страница 8: ...be con gured by the user using a 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 unlimite...
Страница 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 Elemen...
Страница 10: ...r 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 th...
Страница 11: ...imbing or sinking Figure 3 1 Figure 3 1 Analog Vario When the LIVE 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 inc...
Страница 12: ...nstantaneous 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 rate...
Страница 13: ...of the waypoint following arrow 2 will probably be ying the blue course whilst a pilot navigating using arrow 1 so probably ying the optimised route red course will y the substantially shorter route...
Страница 14: ...to the pilot direction direction the wind is coming from For example if the pilot is facing the wind then the ag is on the top of the circle In the example of Figure 3 5 the wind is blowing from North...
Страница 15: ...shortest horizontal distance to the nearest airspace line This distance is always positive Similarly the Alt To CTR shows the shortest vertical distance to nearest airspace line Unlike the horizontal...
Страница 16: ...then the arrow points south bottom of the screen Centered over the arrow is a circle in which a number is displayed showing the wind speed in Km h Figure 3 14 In the example of Figure 3 14 the wind i...
Страница 17: ...proximately 4 mins of the ight is shown Traces older than 4 mins are erased to reduce clutter on the screen Figure 3 17 Compass Element 3 1 11 Compass The Compass element Figure 3 17 show all the data...
Страница 18: ...essure values Arrival Goal Estimated arrival height above Goal The height is calculated considering the average glide ratio that has being made This means that wind day quality and glider performance...
Страница 19: ...sing the warning i e airspace that you are violating or close to violating Fuel Fuel level in liters available when connected with Flymaster M1 G Force Current G Force being experienced by the pilot w...
Страница 20: ...one The True Air Speed that you should y in order to minimize the time to reach the Conical End of Speed Section This value is calculated based on the Cone ratio and the de ned polar Page Num Current...
Страница 21: ...um reached then a positive number will show the altitude gained since entering the thermal The Gain indicator keeps track of how much altitude is being gained in the thermal When a pilot enters a ther...
Страница 22: ...ee Section 4 3 Critical Airspaces This page constantly shows the airspaces which are closer than the thresholds de ned in the settings see Section 4 10 17 Triangle Assistant This page allows the pilot...
Страница 23: ...oint 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 se...
Страница 24: ...nt that 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...
Страница 25: ...ment will jump to the ight screen automatically and navigate to that point When returning to the Waypoints Taskwill cancel the active Go To The Go To function will override the Tasknavigation although...
Страница 26: ...that the sequence in which this waypoint appears in the task list in very important Start Out Enter Start Out is the most commonly used start gate sometimes also known as an Entry start LIVE SD will...
Страница 27: ...the pilot crosses the perimeter line at a time later than the de ned time The TTG time to go will show how much time remains to the opening of the start i e the di erence between this eld s value and...
Страница 28: ...shown in Figure 4 5 This view has a number of important features displayed The start time is shown in TP1 and the optimised route is shown by following the sequential waypoints The size of the cylinde...
Страница 29: ...umed to the selected waypoint Route navigation will then continue in the sequence displayed in the task menu Figure 4 7 Task Navigator When entering into the Task Navigator menu all of the route point...
Страница 30: ...ical Airspace If a critical airspace is selected by pressing ENTER key the lower eld is populated with the airspace data Figure 4 9 This list shows the Distance to the CTR see Section 4 10 17 the Alti...
Страница 31: ...ed navigation to ful ll the 28 rule Since automatic detection of the triangle vertices is very di cult we decide to let the pilot manually decide on the rst and second vertex rather than have this aut...
Страница 32: ...ding options The Nearby Landings page will show all the waypoints de ned as Landings for which the necessary glide ratio is nite Glide ratio s are calculated once the Flight Starts Besides the waypoin...
Страница 33: ...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 Altitude abo...
Страница 34: ...he scorer downloads the correct ight Delete Flight Selecting the Delete Flight option will delete the selected ight from memory Before deleting the ight a message is displayed asking the user to con r...
Страница 35: ...his is obviously not a realistic scenario 4 8 Pages The Pages Menu shows a list of the current Layout pages that are available on the LIVE SD Furthermore the pages Menu can be used to switch page or t...
Страница 36: ...e 4 19 when selecting and pushing ENTER the Goto Page option is not active and the focus will be on the Enable Page Pressing ENTER will re enable the page 4 9 Report Back This feature allows the pilot...
Страница 37: ...ilot is ok and needs retrieve Need Assistance The pilot has some problem and it needs assistance 4 10 Settings Menu The Settings Menu is used to con gure the LIVE SD s many features The menu screen is...
Страница 38: ...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 cal...
Страница 39: ...task is active the LIVE SD will store a track log point immediately as it enters a turn point cylinder Goal or Start See Section 4 7 about track log memory capacity UTC o set Using GPS data the LIVE...
Страница 40: ...ld by default 0 1 m s Later as the climb rate increases a bip bip sound is produced for which the cadence and frequency also increase The Base Frq can be set from 500 to 1500 Hz The higher is the freq...
Страница 41: ...Turnpoint valida tion Start Open A siren type sound is produced when the start time elapses This tone does not indicate that a successful start has been made just that the Start is open Goal Possible...
Страница 42: ...s the climb rate increases This increase in rate is not linear The cadence parameter speci es which cadence curve should be used Current there are 2 possibilities represented in the graph of Figure 4...
Страница 43: ...zone 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 LIVE SD which helps him to center...
Страница 44: ...et Yes the trace 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 w...
Страница 45: ...e 4 31 Track Up On 4 10 7 Screen The screen menu option allows the user to set the Screen contrast to Enable Disable the pages triggers and to colour invert the titles Figure 4 32 44 All manuals and u...
Страница 46: ...ater than 10 Transition This event occurs when the pilot enters leaves a thermal and starts a transition A transition is detected when the integrated vario is less than 0 5 m s and the rate of turn le...
Страница 47: ...o Yes 4 10 8 Language Units The Language and Units menu option allows the user to change the LIVE SD interface language and units A short description o the available options for this menu are shown in...
Страница 48: ...D turns o if the GPS speed is less than 5 km h and integrated vario less than 1 5 m s for more than 30 seconds 4 10 10 RF Probes The RF Probes menu option allows the user to pair up any of the Flymast...
Страница 49: ...es available 4 10 11 Probe Alerts Figure 4 35 Probe Alerts The LIVE SD allows relating alerts with some probes values see Figure 4 35 A short description of each alert is sown in Table 4 11 Table 4 11...
Страница 50: ...pdate is done The magnetometer calibration process is described in Section 8 2 The LIVE SD magnetic compass is very sensible to external magnetic elds In order to get good readings ensure that there a...
Страница 51: ...keys the user can select which data eld is displayed Pressing ENTER will toggle to the next UDF When all six UDFs have been set pressing ENTER will save the settings 4 10 15 FS Keys In Flight Mode key...
Страница 52: ...ion 4 6 4 10 16 Navigation Settings Figure 4 39 Navigation Settings In this menu some of the navigation settings can be adjusted Figure 4 39 A explanation of each option can be found on the folowing s...
Страница 53: ...Changes can be undone by pressing the MENU key As shown in Figure 4 40 there are 5 parameters related to the airspace which are explained in Table 4 13 Table 4 13 Airspace Menu Settings Function Desc...
Страница 54: ...old of 200m both in red Figure 4 41 Airspace Settings Example 4 10 18 GSM Data The LIVE SD includes a full featured quad band GSM GPRS class 10 module This module allows the device to send and receive...
Страница 55: ...ow APN name Username Password If you dont know the APN data for your network operator you can point to the web address http wiki apnchanger org in order to get it In this website APN data are organize...
Страница 56: ...nt 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 sent in minut...
Страница 57: ...the position x Values bellow 2 5 are fairly accurate If the LIVE 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...
Страница 58: ...ance to 2 000km and the start time to 13 00 Note that all times are in the 24 hour clock Beware that it is very important that the rst occurrence of WHALEB be set as Start otherwise the LIVE SD will a...
Страница 59: ...information is provided through 5 additional data elds which can be included in a Layout page Each of the data elds is explained in Section 3 2 but for a better understanding consider the situation of...
Страница 60: ...xpected average GR trough the remaining path see Figure 5 2 Note The expected GR is calculated considering historical data and also the wind compo nent at that direction If a pilot is ying at the pola...
Страница 61: ...lculate the Speed to Fly is manually set by the pilot McCready Ring On the LIVE SD this value is calculated by averaging the last thermals climbed Conversely for each TAS Speed to Fly value there is a...
Страница 62: ...e becomes active once vertex 1 of the triangle is manually de ned Alternatively the pilot can activate the module by de ning the directly vertex 2 In this case vertex 1 is de ned using the coordinates...
Страница 63: ...triangle distances are respectively 9 053 Km and 14 12 Km Figure 7 4 Triangle 4 In the example of gure Figure 7 4 the pilot has just de ned vertex 2 which is indicated by a circle in the Task map As...
Страница 64: ...esent by a circle in the task map Navigation is changed to vertex 1 in order to close the triangle and a line is draw between vertex 3 and vertex 1 In addition the colors of the Triangle Size data eld...
Страница 65: ...TER key avoiding moving the LIVE SD 4 The message Calibrating appears on the display for a while and until the calibration is done 5 At the end of the calibration process message Calibration Done appe...
Страница 66: ...associated with the Roll angle When the calibration is initiated all the circles are empty no color If the instrument is rotated so that the pitch angle gets close to 90 then the top circle is lled bl...
Страница 67: ...ed to calibrate the iphone 3 If the movement is correctly made the all the 4 circles will become black and the calibration process automatically stop 4 The end of the calibration process is indicated...
Страница 68: ...further software Figure 9 1 Firmware Menu Option Once the Designer is correctly installed do the following procedure 1 Open the Designer 2 Select Tools Firmware see Figure 9 1 3 Use the new box to ch...
Страница 69: ...Figure 9 2 Firmware Update Done 68 All manuals and user guides at all guides com...
Страница 70: ...nd that GPSDump has been installed 10 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...
Страница 71: ...he instrument Flymaster instruments typically populate with high COM port numbers such as COM 11 in the example below Figure 10 3 Figure 10 3 COM port options Once the COM ports have been con gured yo...
Страница 72: ...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 10 5 71 All manuals and user...
Страница 73: ...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 10 3 Downloading tracklogs To download a track simply click on...
Страница 74: ...e 10 7 Figure 10 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...
Страница 75: ...ency 39 Climb Threshold 39 Delete All Flights 33 Delete Flight 33 Increments 39 Memory capacity 34 Sink Alarm 39 Sink Threshold 39 Sound Alerts 40 Volume 39 Time Setting 38 Volume 39 Wind Arrow 15 74...
