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Flymaster GPS SD User Manual

Flymaster GPS SD User Manual

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  • Page 1: User Manual

    User manual Document version:1.0...
  • Page 2 Warning...
  • Page 3 Contents...
  • Page 5: 1 Getting Started

    1 Getting Started 1.1 Charging the Battery Quick Charge Slow charge Quick charge Shutdown Slow Fast Slow 1.2 GPS SD Keys power-up...
  • Page 6 1.3 Using keys Inside Menu grayed 1.4 Switching GPS SD On and O Shutdown...
  • Page 7: Setting The Volume

    1.5 Resetting the GPS SD 1.6 Setting the Volume Vario Accoustics Settings no sound Auto silent 1.7 Flight Start and Recording Flight Start Start Speed...
  • Page 8: Flight Mode

    2 Flight Mode Flight Mode Flymaster Designer Elements what you see is what you get...
  • Page 9 3 GPS SD Elements 3.1 Graphical Elements 3.1.1 Battery 3.1.2 Sound...
  • Page 10 3.1.3 GPS altitude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_Positioning_System 3.1.4 Vario...
  • Page 11 Big Analog Vario Average Thermal Next Expected Thermal...
  • Page 12 3.1.5 Navigation Circle Start Fligth º direction of next waypoint...
  • Page 13 ne adjustment indicator º direction the wind is coming from 3.1.6 Airspaces Map Airspaces Map OpenAir http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_openair.html...
  • Page 14 North Up start speed Flight Starts Alt. To CTR CTR status Violating Altitude Imminent Position Imminent user dened key function...
  • Page 15 3.1.7 Altitude graph 3.1.8 Wind Arrow Wind Arrow direction the wind is coming from...
  • Page 16 3.1.9 Map Page...
  • Page 17 3.2 Data eld Elements...
  • Page 18 Violating Immenent Alt Pos.Immenent...
  • Page 20 Violating Immenent Alt Pos.Immenent...
  • Page 21 The Gain indicator keeps track of how much altitude is being gained in the thermal. When a pilot enters a thermal the GPS SD will reset the Gain indicator to 0 and will start to track how much altitude the pilot has gained. At a certain point in the thermal the lift may become weaker and inconsistent.
  • Page 22 4 Menu mode...
  • Page 23 4.1 Waypoints and Route Insert new Waypoint Delete The GPS SD can store up to 442 waypoints.
  • Page 24 4.1.1 Waypoints Actions Menu...
  • Page 25 . The last thing you want is to be sitting on takeo with no Delete Route waypoints in the GPS SD , to clear the previous Routeuse the function described in section Section 4.1.2. WARNING: Whenever a modication is done to the Route, navigation will be restarted at the beginning of the Route.
  • Page 26 Take-O Take-o RoutePoint Menu Edit Move Remove Routepoint Move Route Point Remove Route Point Delete Route 4.2 RouteNavigator...
  • Page 27 Start 4.3 Critical Airspaces ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ...
  • Page 28: Flight Log

    4.4 Nearby Landings Landing Landings Go To Landing 4.5 Flight Log...
  • Page 29 ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ Delete Flight...
  • Page 30 Delete all ights...
  • Page 31 4.6 Pages Goto Page Flight Screen...
  • Page 32: Settings Menu

    P1 R2G after start Goto Page Enable Page 4.7 Settings Menu Settings Menu...
  • Page 33 4.7.1 Set Altimeter Set Altimeter http://www.xcmag.com/2011/ 07/gps-versus-barometric-altitude-the-definitive-answer/ Get from GPS Yes No Auto Get from GPS Auto Auto position dilution of precision...
  • Page 34 4.7.2 Time Time Vario Integrator Track Interval track interval 4.7.3 Vario Acoustics Vario Acoustics Climb Threshold...
  • Page 35 Climb Threshold Sink Threshold Sink Alarm Sink Alarm Base Frq Incre- ments Base Frq Base Frq Audio Frequencies Base Frq Base Frq Base Frq Increments incre- ments Increments Increments Base Frq no sound Flight Mode 4.7.4 Advanced Features...
  • Page 36 Damper...
  • Page 37 Auto silent Start Flight start speed Start Flight Start Flight 4.7.5 Trace...
  • Page 38 Track UP North UP...
  • Page 39 4.7.6 Screen...
  • Page 40 Airspace Warning Disable Triggers 4.7.7 Language/Units Language and Units...
  • Page 41 ˆ ° ˆ ° ˆ ˆ 4.7.8 Device Settings 4.7.9 RF Probes RF Probes...
  • Page 42 4.7.10 Probe Alerts...
  • Page 43 4.7.11 Polar Polar Max; Between; Min Between 4.7.12 FS Keys...
  • Page 44 Pages Set Altimeter 4.7.13 Airspace settings...
  • Page 45 4.7.14 GPS status position dilution of precision lock position dilution of precision Reset GPS gps reset...
  • Page 47 5 RouteDenition 5.1 Route Denition 5.2 Setting up the route Flight Mode Screen...
  • Page 48 6 McCready Functions SpeedToFly McRdyNxtThrm McRdyNxtThrm Double Bar Analog Vario...
  • Page 49 7 Firmware ˆ ˆ Send to Instrument Programing... complete...
  • Page 51 8 Interfacing with GPSDump 8.1 Conguring GPSDump...
  • Page 52 8.2 Uploading Waypoints...
  • Page 54 8.3 Downloading tracklogs...
  • Page 56 Index...