Operating Modes
Version 6.03, May 2017
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altitude in feet, flight levels, voltage or average netto. It can be setup separately for climb
mode or cruising mode.
Speed to fly bar
symbol is indicating which speed you have to fly according to current
MacCready setting, sink rate and speed. One arrow means 10units of speed faster or slower.
Up red arrows mean fly slower and down blue arrows mean fly faster.
Red diamond symbol
can show average vertical speed, netto or current g-load.
Blue arrow symbol
shows current MacCready value.
Green T symbol
represents last thermal average value ->
Thermal
White bar
displays arc between minimum and maximum vertical speed value in last 20
seconds in white colour or minimum and maximum g-load in red colour, depending on
settings.
Flarm
warnings can also be shown on the indicator if this box is ticked. By pressing
DEMO
you can see how the warning is displayed.
Press
RESET-G
button to reset g-meter.
Most innovative feature of vario system is an upgrade. Firmware for vario unit can
be easily upgraded by customer with SD card. See Chapter 8 for more details.
5.1.11.4
Indicator I8/I80/V8/V80
Indicator I8/I80
is without mechanical needle. I80 features 3.5” colour screen with
320x240 pixels resolution and I8 features 2.5” colour screen with 320x240 pixels resolution.
User selectable data are displayed on screen and needle is drawn. Each indicator is
identified by a serial number, which is also displayed on hardware menu. Therefore literally
unlimited number of indicators can be connected to RS485 bus and each of them can be
setup separately, however only one vario unit.
Indicator basic screen is split into two parts, white ring with needle and vario scale.
Additionally to needle, blue MacCready triangle, green thermal average T and red diamond
for 20 seconds average are shown. In the middle four user-customizable numbers are
shown. When middle button on indicator is pressed display will toggle between numeric
display, AHRS mode, Flarm radar display, Thermal assistant mode and after a long press on
the middle button you can enter the SETUP menu.
Push button used for:
menus
Push button used for:
menus
Push button used for: