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1. ANTELO A WHALEB 0 0 ASHBUT A SHEEP SHE 3 0 ASPEN AS HEBRON M 21 8 BALL BAL GOOSEN G 17 2 BEATTY B WHALEL 18 9 E BIKINI BIK WHALEL 0 0 G BLACK BL BLY BLY BONANZ B DC53 Total 68 1 Type Start outfenter Size 002 000km Time 13 00 Figure 5 1 Task example Progressing through the above procedure sets the task on the instrument Going back into the Flight Mode Screen by pressing MENU bottom will automatically activate the task and start navigation Warning After the route is edited navigation will be restarted at the beginning of the route Consider the same task represented in Figure 4 5 but now the End of Speed Section ESS is a cone with 4 1 ratio In order to set up the task you should make the same steps defined in Section 5 1 except the step 5 As the cone as a ratio of 4 1 in this step you should set the Cone parameter to 4 0 The LIVE SD provides some information to optimize the navigation when the ESS is conical This information is provided through 5 additional data fields which can be included in a Layout page Each of the data fields is explained in Section 3 2 but for a better understanding consider the situation of Figure 5 2 Figure 5 2 Conical End of Speed Section In the example of Figure 5 2 the pilot is flying to the ESS at a certain true air speed TAS There is an optimum TAS value which minimizes the time to reach the ESS This value depends on the polar and cone ratio
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3. sured True Air Speed TAS Probe needed This value is related with the Speed to Fly and is shown graphically in the Double Bar Vario Motor Temp Motor Temperature available when connected with Flymaster M1 OptGndSpdCone The Ground Speed that you should fly in order to minimize the time to reach the Conical End of Speed Section This value is calculated adding the Wind over the current course to the Optimal Speed To Cone OptSpdCone The True Air Speed that you should fly 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 defined polar Pulse Current heartbeat in beats per minute when using the Flymaster Dee Heart G sensor RPM Motor revolutions per minute available when connected with Fly Speed Indicates ground speed The speed is only available when the GPS A receiver has a valid signal Speed Strt Speed to Start The speed at which the pilot must fly in order to VPR Fench e start gai early ais og O Speed ToFly Optimal Speed to Fly value calculated according the McCready Theory The True Air Speed value is calculated based on the id defined polar and the average thermal speed Number of steps taken since counting initiated Steps Min Cadence showing number of steps per minute TAS True Air Speed This information is available when the instrument is used in conjunction with the Flymaster TAS pitot probe Time pilot has spent in the most recen
4. a waypoint name after defining the desired characters pushing the ENTER key continually for more than 2 seconds will make the cursor jump to the next data field or return to the configuration menu if no more data field needs to be set 1 4 Switching LIVE SD On and Off To switch on the LIVE SD briefly push the 1 key Menu Key This will display the start up screen with a 10 second countdown Pushing the S2 Enter key before the 10 seconds have elapsed will power up the LIVE SD The LIVE SD initiates in flight mode If the S2 key is not pushed within 10 seconds the LIVE SD returns to sleep To switch off the LIVE SD push the S1 menu key to activate menu mode then use the 3 or S4 to select the Shutdown item and finally push the S2 Key SD 1 5 Resetting the LIVE SD The reset procedure allows the pilot to restart the LIVE SD in the unlikely event that it freezes or stops responding if this ever occur please report it to our support email To reset the LIVE SD push S1 Menu key and the 4 Down arrow key simultaneously for at least two seconds The display will go blank and after will return in Flight mode Note Resetting the LIVE SD will also reset flight data e g task status 1 6 Setting the Volume The LIVE SD sound volume can be adjust using one FS Key or trough the Vario Accoustics option of the Settings Menu see Section 4 9 3 The LIVE SD has six different sound levels plus no sound The current volume l
5. and is not affected by the wind or thermals The LIVE SD calculates the optimal TAS value 94 SD and show this in the OptSpdCone data field In order to know the TAS the pilot needs a TASProbe So for the pilots who do not have the TASProbe the LIVE SD calculates the optimal ground speed by adding a Wind component to the TAS The optimal ground speed is shown in the OptGndSpdCone Data Field Note The OptGndSpdCone accuracy depends on the wind accuracy When the ESS is a cylinder the distance to the ESS does not depend on the pilot altitude On the contrary when the ESS is a cone the distance to the ESS depends on the altitude Because of this the LIVE SD provide 2 distances in 2 different data fields The Dist Cone data field shows the distance to the ESS at the current pilot altitude see Figure 5 2 As the glider glide ratio GR is usually positive and finite the altitude at which the pilot reaches the ESS is different from the current altitude so real distance to the cone depends on the GR The Dist ConeA data field shows the horizontal distance to the ESS considering the expected 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 flying at the polar point corresponding to value indicated in the OptSpdCone data field it will take him a certain time to reach the cone There is a vertical speed
6. increased amount of time to pick up satellite signals If this occurs pushing ENTER on the GPS menu item will reveal the Reset GPS option changing it to yes will make the LIVE SD reset the GPS status and start a new search see Figure 4 45 So if you notice LIVE SD is taking abnormally long to get a fix over 2 minutes a gps reset will probably get it locked quicker GPS Reset GPS Are you sure NN Figure 4 45 GPS Reset 92 5 SD TaskDefinition In this section we will present an example of how to set a task in your LIVE SD 5 1 Setting up the task Consider the task represented in Figure 4 5 and detailed in Table 5 1 Table 5 1 Task example CA ETT E O srar oroen waaren me 2 COS CC o S om omo O E os ATT END OF SPEED _ SECTION GOAL 05 00 00 PM 00 00 PM WHALEL 400m In order to set up the task in your LIVE SD you should go trough the following steps 1 2 Delete any existing task on the LIVE SD see Section 4 1 2 Add to the task in the right order LAUNCH WHALEB twice SHEEP HEBRON GOOSEN and finally WHALEL twice The LIVE SD will automatically assume LAUNCH as the takeoff since it is the first waypoint on the list The first WHALEB will be used as Start and the last WHALEL will be used to define the landing deadline As waypoints are entered their properties can be edited as you enter each waypoint On the task list select the first occurren
7. Delete All Flights 31 Delete Flight 31 Flight Log 30 Increments 37 Memory capacity 32 Sink Alarm 37 Sink Threshold 37 Sound Alerts 38 Volume 37 Time Setting 36 Volume 37 Wind Arrow 15 64
8. This SIM card should allow data communications using GPRS The GSM Data menu allows the activation deactivation of the GSM Modem and the configuration of the GSM operator Settings Language Units Device settings RF Probes Heart G Data fields FS Keys Navigation settings Airspace settings SMS Configuration Disable Auto APN No GSM modem On APN send ee User 37254662977 Password Figure 4 40 GSM setup Note By default the GSM modem is turned off The GSM modem should be turn off if not needed in order to save power In certain conditions the GSM modem is automatically turned off for example when the SIM Card is not present In this menu see Figure 4 40 you can set the LIVE SD to automatically configure the APN Access Point Name which will allow the device to join any available mobile phone network The automatic configuration will only work if your SIM card issuer has their APN data in the Flymaster database To override the automatic APN configuration set the AutoAPN to Disabled in this case the LIVE SD will use the APN settings user and password from the fields bellow To manually configure the GSM operator you need to know e APN name e Username e 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 organized by country In Figure 4 41 it is possible to see an example for a specific
9. a constant sound varying rapidly in pitch from around 100hz to the set base frequency at which the first beep is emitted This is the buzzer sound and may resemble a growl noise Setting the Buzzer value to Off will disable the buzzer feature Although the Buzzer will sound very annoying on the ground it becomes an amazing companion in flight allowing the pilot to pick up thermals he would have usually missed Airmass climb N f 01 0 9 SA Pilot climb Y rate Figure 4 26 Buzzer A practical example of the advantages of the buzzer feature can be illustrated in Figure 4 26 In this example both pilots are sinking at 1 0 m s The orange paraglider has a LIVE SD for which the climbing threshold is set to 0 1 m s and the Buzzer parameter is set to 3 0 3 m s The green paraglider has a typical vario for which the climbing threshold is set to 0 1 m s As shown in the figure when both pilots enter the thermal nothing is heard The air is rising at 0 1 m s but both pilots are descending at 0 9 m s In the second 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 the thermal while the green pilot is still unaware of the thermal Finally in the 3 zone the air is rising at 1 2 m s and so both pilots climb at 0 2 m s The LIVE SD pilot starts to hear his vario beep beep so
10. as been exited when the integrated vario goes bellow 1 0 m s Once in the thermal the Gain indicator will keep track of the maximum altitude reached in the thermal If the altitude is less than the the maz thermal altitude then a negative number will show the difference from the highest point reached If the altitude is equal or higher than the maximum 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 thermal the LIVE 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 At this point the gain indicator will show altitude loss in this inconsistency Once the pilot climbs in the thermal again the indicator will show the gain since entering the thermal Note All the internal LIVE SD time calculations are based on UTC Coordinated Universal Time This is also the time saved on the track log However the time displayed in the time field is calculated adding an UTC offset to the UTC time obtained from the GPS receiver The UTC offset should be defined in the settings menu see Section 4 9 2 so that the correct local time is displayed Note The TTG field is dynamic and will vary according to the current flight status and type of task defined It will show TTG time to go before start gate o
11. can be used to identify high vertical speeds as for example in a spiral dive The Sink Alarm parameter can vary from 0 to 25m s Set the Sink Alarm to Off to disable the alarm Base Frequency The audio frequencies can be adjusted to match the user s preference by setting the Base Frq and Incre ments The Base Frq is the first frequency used to produce the initial sound which corresponds to the climb threshold 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 frequency value the higher pitched the sound is In order to change the base frequency value press the ENTER key after the Audio Frequencies menu option is highlighted This action will highlight the Base Frg value so it can be increased using the UP key or decreased using the DOWN key The ENTER key should then be pressed thus confirming the Base Frq setting The preset value for Base Frq is 700 Hz Increments The Increments parameter sets the frequency increment for each 0 1 m s climb rate increase The incre ments can be set from 1 to 99 Hz The preset value for Increments is 10 Hz Considering an Increments value of 10 and Base Frq of 700 Hz the vario frequency at 1 m s is 800 Hz Volume The final option allows the user to adjust the sound volume The LIVE SD has six different sound levels plus no sound Pressing U
12. can change the climbing and sinking rate sound through the respective threshold values These thresholds correspond to the climbing and sinking rates at which the sound activates The user can also define in the Acoustic Thresholds option the sink alarm and the sound volume of is the LIVE SD Figure 4 22 Sink TH 20mfs Climb TH 0 Imfs Sink Alarm 0 0mfs Base O0hz Increments 10hz Volume 4 Figure 4 22 Vario Acoustics Climb Threshold The Climb Threshold defines the rate of climb at which the vario will start beeping The frequency of the first beep is defined trough the Base Frequency parameter and steadily increases according the Increments 36 SD parameter value The default value for Climb Threshold is 0 1m s This means that beeping starts once the instantaneous vario value goes above 0 1m s Sink Threshold The Sink Threshold is the rate of descent at which the vario will emit a low frequency sound Contrary to the climb sound the sink sound is continuous The deeper the sink rate the lower the sound frequency Default value for this parameter is 2 m s we suggest setting a value lower than the natural sink rate of the glider when flying with speed bar in still air Sink Alarm The Sink Alarm defines a vertical speed value at which a sound alarm siren starts to be produced For example if the Sink Alarm is set to 10m s then if the instantaneous vario goes below 10m s and alarm will be fired This alarm
13. country Zon Multimedia MVNO operates in Vodafone network APN settings a username blank a password blank a APN name internet zon pt Figure 4 41 APN settings example In the example of Figure 4 41 the Username and Password for the Zon Multimedia operator is not needed and the APN name is internet zon pt In order to activate the GSM follow the next steps 50 SD 1 Remove Disable the PIN Code from the GSM SIM card This can be done using a mobile phone 2 With the LIVE SD off insert the SIM card with the SIM connector facing down see Figure 4 42 3 Turn on the LIVE SD and within the GSM Data menu option either set the Disable Auto APN to NO to allow the device to find a GSM network or manually set the APN Figure 4 42 SIM card 4 9 18 SMS Configuration settings RF Probes Probe alerts Polar Data fields FS Keys Navigation settings Airspace settings GSM data SMS Configuration GPS SMS to SMS every Omin Figure 4 43 SMS Configuration This menu option allows the user to configure the automatic sms sending to a defined recipient see Figure 4 43 The sms is sent with a certain periodicity also defined by the user In order to configure the SMS sending the parameters defined in Table 4 13 should be set Table 4 13 SMS Configuration Parameters SMS to Insert here the phone number of the recipient The number should include the country and area code For example if
14. date time and flight duration Flight Log 2012 11 28 2012 11 24 2012 11 24 2012 11 23 2012 11 23 2012 11 21 2012 11 10 2012 10 05 2012 10 03 2012 10 01 Max Alt 14911m 23 30 38 21 52 54 04 52 21 19 08 41 17 20 09 20 44 03 14 11 42 09 43 25 10 41 36 12 17 32 T off Alti 2540m Above Toff 2370m Max Sink 3 f m Max Climb 4 4m s Max Speed 63 0km h Distance 47 61km Goal Speed Sec 02 03 20 00 02 34 00 49 05 00 00 13 00 00 08 00 00 43 00 00 12 01 15 02 00 12 44 00 00 09 Figure 4 11 Flight log 30 SD Flights can be selected using UP and DOWN keys For the selected flight additional information is displayed on the bottom half of the screen e Max Altitude Maximum altitude during flight ASL e T off Alti Take off altitude e Above Toff Altitude above take off e Max Sink Maximum sinking rate during flight e Max Climb Maximum climbing rate during flight e Distance Distance flown and if goal was made e Speed Sec Time to cover the speed section of the task Pushing the ENTER key will display the Flight Log Action List with options e Upload to XC server e Delete flight e Delete all flights Each of the options is explained in the following sections Also if you use a flight data download application and request the flight list while the Flight Log Action is active only selected flight will be reported to the downloader application this is useful at competitio
15. how the data is organised there are 256 blocks of data which can handle 510 points each as a flight grows it takes up these blocks so each flight will occupy a multiple of 510 points at an extreme example if you have 256 flights each with 1 second the memory will be full and you only have 256 seconds of flight data this is obviously not a realistic scenario 4 7 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 to Disable Enable each of the available pages A Layout can include 16 different pages and all of them can be drawn using the Flymaster DESIGNER software Figure 4 14 shows an example of what is available in a typical layout in the Pages Menu this will be different depending on what was drawn with the Designer Pages PO R2G Bd start P1 R2G after start P3 Open distance map page alrspace page landing page Figure 4 14 Available Pages example You can select different pages by selecting either the UP or DOWN keys If you press ENTER for a certain page 2 options become available as shown in Figure 4 15 32 SD Pages PO R2G Bd start Disable Page Figure 4 15 Page Options Selecting the Goto Page option and pressing the ENTER button will jump to that page on the Flight Screen This allows the user to display any of the pages without having to resort to trigger functions to display that particular p
16. you want to send an sms to Flymaster insert the number 351256001935 SMS every Set the time interval between each sms sent in minutes The sms includes the following information e Geographic coordinates in decimal degrees e g 40 446 N 79 982 W ol SD e Average GPS speed e Barometric Altitude e Time Hour Minute 4 9 19 GPS status In the main menu the LIVE SD provides a detailed view of the GPS status the current position dilution of precision pdop value and the current GPS coordinates of the pilot Settings RF Probes Probe alerts Polar Data fields FS Keys Navigation settings Airspace settings GSM data SMS OS N 36 95262 pias Wo 122051880 pDop 2 00 Figure 4 44 Satellite status Figure 4 44 illustrates the GPS satellite reception page In this example the LIVE SD shows that 8 satellites are visible and all 8 are being used to provide the position fix Each bar shows the signal strength for each individual satellite A filled bar indicates the LIVE SD has a lock on that satellite The position dilution of precision pdop shown gives an indication of how reliable the GPS data is at the moment The lower the pdop value the more accurate the position fix 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 going outdoors again will make the LIVE SD take an
17. 0 oy im Slolo z s T E x Z u P Read from MLR NMEA Read from MLR Fast Send to MLR Read from XC Trainer Send to XC Trainer ID Send to XC Trainer Name Read from Leonardo user area Read from Leonardo comp area SHARP N41 42 Send to Leonardo user area TN MIDDLE N41 43 Send to Leonardo comp area TULELA N41 56 W121 28 43 38 1229 TULELAKE RACETRACK GRASS N41 38 W l 10 02 42 1529 GRASS LAKE VISITORS CENTER See a a E Figure 8 5 Waypoint options Here you have the option of sending the waypoint ID 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 8 3 Downloading tracklogs To download a track simply click on the FLYMASTER button on GPSDump 62 SD DS FLYMASTER EA ea y AOO GpsDump 0 27 fdev cu usbserial A6005opwW Garmin Brauniger XC Trainer MLR types Save kmi Garmin USB Flytec Flymaster Leonardo Flymaster Live SNOD156 SW1 031 Reading track list Latitude o Ait WHALEB N41 3 ATAR LAUNCH N41 29 07 13 21 34 20 00 50 09 l SHASTA N41 06 07 13 20 36 11 00 04 18 06 07 13 20 35 08 00 00 36 nad E la Pi ASHBUT N41 TEST wal 06 07 13 20 32 23 00 00 30 FaR Ni 06 07 13 20 30 24 00 00 59 SHEEP N 41 7 15 ANA 13 Panes OATS HERD N 41 MTSHEE NAI HEBRON N41 ORR N41 4 TAIN CEDAR
18. 4 64 1395 JUNIPER HILLD N41 59 24 12 W 121 55 50 94 1635 DORRIS HILL DORRI5 N41 57 44 52 W 121 55 30 00 1293 DORRIS DOME N41 48 32 34 W 121 41 15 78 1974 MT DOME SHARP N41 42 11 94 W 121 46 14 34 1892 SHARP MTN MIDDLE N41 43 02 34 W 121 44 21 06 1608 MIDDLE SISTER TULELA N41 56 52 32 W 121 28 43 38 1229 TULELAKE RACETRACK GRASS N41 38 38 11 W 122 10 02 42 1529 GRASS LAKE VISITORS CENTER A A Figure 8 4 Waypoint list Once the file 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 8 5 61 IP CpsDur Read from Brauniger Na Send to Brauniger ID Garmin Brauniger X Send to Brauniger Name J Send to Brauniger ID Name Garmin USB Flytec F uiti Li Read from Flytec Flymaster Gps SNO2063 SW1 031 Send to Flytec ID o Send to Flytec Name 61 waypoints sent Send to Flytec ID Name ID a Read from Flymaster Z DEER N 41 36 Send to Flymaster ID TC A WHALEB N41 31 Send to Flymaster Name LAUNCH N41 32 Send to Flymaster ID Name SHASTA N 41 24 BTA Read from Garmin Send to Garmin E CREEK D AIRSTRIP ASHBUT N41 26 MCCLOU N41 17 WEED N41 26 SHEEP N41 34 HERD N41 37 MTSHEE N41 48 HEBRON N 41 42 ORR N 41 40 CEDAR N 41 42 MACDOE N 41 49 JUNIPE N 41 50 HILLD N41 59 DORRIS N 41 57 DOME N 41 48 Read from Garmin USB Send to Garmin USB A Ha
19. AS CLASS D MONTEREY PENINSU SAN CARLOS CLASS SAN CARLOS CLASS SAN JOSE AIRPORT SAN JOSE AIRPORT METROPOLITAN OAK METROPOLITAN OAK HAYWARD CLASS D LIVERMORE CLASS Figure 4 8 Critical Airspace If a critical airspace is selected by pressing ENTER key the lower field is populated with the airspace data Figure 4 9 This list shows e the Distance to the CTR see Section 4 9 16 e the Altitude which is the reference altitude for the airspace see Section 4 9 16 e the floor of the airspace which is the lowest altitude of the airspace e the ceiling which is the maximum altitude of the airspace The list also shows the airspace status specificity if the pilot is violating airspace or the violation is imminent or if it is out of airspace In the example of Figure 4 9 the pilot is out of the airspace The reference altitude is the current altitude being used for airspace calculation Different reference altitudes can be set in the Airspace settings section 15 15 Airspace settings and these include Altitude barometric altitude GPS altitude and Flight Level using 1013 25 mBar pressure For more details on this see Section 4 9 16 Critical Airspaces 238 SALINAS CLASS D MONTEREY PENINSU SAN CARLOS CLASS SAN CARLOS CLASS SAN JOSE AIRPORT SAN JOSE AIRPORT METROPOLITAN OAK METROPOLITAN OAK HAYWARD CLASS D LIVERMORE CLASS Dist CTR out Altitude 100 rt Floor 1499 rt Ceiling 23999 rt Figure 4 9 Cr
20. D 1 Getting Started Fully charge battery before using your Flymaster for the first time Figure 1 1 right view The battery may be charged by either connecting the LIVE SD USB connector to the wall socket charger or to a powered USB port using the USB cable USB connector can be found on the right side of the LIVE SD see figure 1 1 1 1 Charging the Battery Flymaster LIVE SD has an advanced battery power management system which gives the pilot accurate information about the battery state as well as the charging time and battery remaining time To charge the Flymaster LIVE SD battery you may use the wall charger the USB cable or the car charger Original Flymaster accessories are recommended in order to avoid damage to the power management system The Flymaster LIVE SD has 2 charging modes namely Quick Charge and Slow charge The charging mode choice is automatic and based on the power source Quick charge mode is activated when charging with the wall charger or the car charger while Slow Charge mode is activated when a USB cable connected to a PC or MAC is used Charging and battery status information is shown 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 off the instrument will show if it is being Slow or Fast charged The time remaining to full charge is also shown This may not appear immediately when a power s
21. N41 4 CEDA MACDOE N41 49 48 42 W122 00 18 84 1298 MACDOEL CITY JUNIPE N41 50 12 00 W 121 59 14 64 1395 JUNIPER HILLD N 41 59 24 12 W121 55 50 94 1635 DORRIS HILL DORRIS N41 57 44 52 W121 55 30 00 1293 DORRIS DOME N 41 48 32 34 W121 41 15 78 1974 MT DOME SHARP N 41 42 11 94 W121 46 1434 1892 SHARP MTN MIDDLE N 41 43 02 34 W121 44 2106 1608 MIDDLE SISTER TULELA N 41 56 52 32 W121 28 43 38 1279 TULELAKE RACETRACK GRASS N41 38 38 11 W122 10 02 42 1529 GRASS LAKE VISITORS CENTER EA E ETE ETT Al Figure 8 6 Downloading tracklog When you click on the Flymaster button a list will populate showing all of the flight logs on the instrument Figure 8 7 Garmin Brauniger XC Trainer MLR types Save kml Garmin USB Flytec Flymaster Leonardo Flymaster Live SNOO156 SW1 031 No track selected UTC date UTC time Latitude H GPS H B G 2013 07 29 21 34 20 N 35 25 40 32 W120 52 23 40 210 2013 07 29 21 34 21 N35 25 40 02 W 120 52 23 94 210 74 1 0 2013 07 29 21 34 22 Nas 25 39 78 W 12720 52 24 60 210 74 2 1 Figure 8 7 Tracklog list Simply clicking on the desired flight will download the tracklog to the computer Once the tracklog has been downloaded it is possible to save the tracklog in several different formats IGC KML and GPX KML is the recommended format if you wish to view on Google Earth 63 Index Airspace Warning 48 Alerts 38 Base Frequency 37 Climb Threshold 36
22. P or DOWN keys will respective increase or decrease the sound level After setting the sound value to confirm and return to the Settings menu press the ENTER key The new sound level is saved in memory and is used when the LIVE SD is turned on Sound volume can also be adjusted using one FS key However the sound level adjusted using the FS key is not kept in memory so is only valid until the LIVE SD is turned off In Flight Mode the current volume level can be seen using the sound element see Section 3 1 2 for more details 37 SD 4 9 4 Alerts Settings Set Altimeter Time Wario Acoustics Alerts Advanced Features Trace Screen Language Units Device settings RF Probes Turnpoint complete Yes Start open Yes Goal possible Yes Airspace Yes Figure 4 23 Alerts In this menu it it possible to set up the instrument to give you audio alerts when certain conditions have been met There are 4 different possible alerts Figure 4 23 Each of these alerts can be enabled by selecting the YES prompt when the ENTER key is pressed Conversely selecting NO will disable the respective alarm The description of each alarm can be seen in Table 4 6 Table 4 6 Alerts Types Trunpoint Com let A alarm brrrr sound is produced when the pilot plete successfully cross a turnpoint see Turnpoint valida tion Start Open A siren type sound is produced when the start time elapses This tone does not indicate that
23. Sound Level 4 SoundLevell S Sound is muted No sound SD 3 1 3 Mobile Operator The Mobile operator Element similarly to any mobile phone provides an indication about the commu nications operator and the GSM signal quality Signal quality is shown graphically The relationship between what is shown and the signal quality can be seen in Table 3 3 Table 3 3 GSM signal quality graphic description Description GSM signal level 5 Additionally next to the symbol a message is draw which provides information about the network provider The description of each message can be seen in Table 3 4 Table 3 4 Network related messages Symbol Description GSM Operator name The LIVE SD has not yet or can t connect to the GSM Operator No SIM Card No SIM card detected Disabled GSM module disabled This can be done manually through the Settings or 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 the more accurate calculations are for determining position Values bellow 3 0 are fairly accurate The relationship between what is shown and the signal quality can be seen in Table 3 5 Note that FAI rules require 3D tracklog data which includes GPS altitude Table 3 5 GPS signal quality Symbol Description BF 3D position with a PDOP bellow 1 5 3D posi
24. a Menu mode Waypoints and Task ss OE taatad edda eee SE Se a A 4 1 1 Waypoints Actions Menu LES A e sorreran DAA LIE USO ricos esas aaa oS he ia NIE Critical Airspaces 54446 e864 eo 8 HRS AAA Nearby Landings ogee RHE Se WEEKES EKA ARE ie eS A AAA ee ee ee ee ee CR seres eee awe eH ORE AD HE Hee eke kOe ASA POC ek hha ee ee Re REE Rae ewe eee EERE ee ee SRA g t oa ARA ee e a 4 9 1 Set Altimeter cee eee BPE HESS RE EEE ERR Eee ES Pu ay 09 Annow k Ha Ha OD J SD A IEEE LOS Vario ACO aw ewe ERS ER EH ROR ROE HED REE EHO ANA Fe cc ara eee Coe KR Ew ee ee HE 4 9 5 Advanced Features 1 5 6 6 08 6G eo ee REM HERR SREY ee EO DS o RI beet we eek a eee eh GeeE EGRESS EE ete Ss E AMIA IET AO Language UTA eiii RAE OR RA 4 9 9 Device Settings oia a EA e de BE a ESO RI PODS sae as a EA A 4 9 11 Probe Alerts eka SEER RR Eee REPRE AA DU Po so te eR REE eee ee Eee eX AUIS Data Teld iia eee Ewe AAA DRA EN a Oe RE ee Swe AS 4 9 15 Navigation Settings bbe ee eee us 4 9 16 Alrspace setlings so cco nee ade EIA 49 17 GSM Dala 6k ow me KAS a ER bb ER we EERE EEE HES AUTO SMS One AO so me eA eRe eS Ke a JC LIO GPS Ge is dido AAA a eR ee eki TaskDefinition SL e a 6h ee eR o oo ee eS McCready Functions Firmware Interfacing with GPSDump IN ia Coe a Re OS we Oe He we HY Ow OG Bo Upoadng Waypoint cosa o RAR 8 3 Downloading tracklogs ct kG rara AA ela ak E AE Se ow S
25. a successful start has been made just that the Start is open Goal Possible A alarm brrrr sound is made to indicate that it is possible to reach GOAL This is based on having a positive number for Arrival Goal This is calculated based on the average glide ratio and it takes into account wind Airspace A siren type sound is produced indicating that the pilot has entered the buffer zone see Section 4 4 close to airspace 4 9 5 Advanced Features The advanced features settings option can be used to set more of the LIVE SD vario acoustics Figure 4 24 38 SD Damper 6 Cadence 1 Dynamic freq On Buzzer 3 Auto Silent On Start Speed 1 Figure 4 24 Advanced Features Damper The LIVE SD s vertical speed calculation is based on air pressure variations It is very seldom to have air pressure absolutely stable Turbulence caused by air moving near the sensor is sufficient to cause small variations in pressure For this reason the LIVE SD filters averages the pressure data to prevent constantly detecting tiny pressure variations The value that defines how must the pressure is filtered is the Damper Setting a lower damper value caused the LIVE SD to become more responsive but harsher Inversely a higher value causes the LIVE SD to be less responsive but smoother The default value is 6 Cadence When a rate of climb is higher than that specified by the Climb threshold the LIVE SD creates a beeping sound Th
26. age or having to scroll through all of the pages in sequence using the a function key It is also possible to disable a page so that when you toggle through the different pages that page is not displayed see Figure 4 16 Also all triggers associated with the disable page will be ignored Pages PO R2G Bd start Goto Page Figure 4 16 Disable Page Once a page is disabled an asterisk will be shown on the pages list prior to the page name as shown in Figure 4 17 in this case P1 R2G after start is disabled Pages P1 R2G after start Figure 4 17 Enable Page Note that on Figure 4 17 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 33 SD 4 8 Report Back This feature allows the pilot to send pre defined messages to the Flymaster server The list of messages could increase as the firmware evolves The current firmware version includes messages which are useful in competitions In order to send a message the pilot should enter the menu and select the desired message The message is sent when the ENTER key is pressed In the example of Figure 4 18 the Level 3 message is selected If the ENTER key is pressed the message is sent to the Flymaster server Report Back Level 2 Level 1 Need Assistance Figure 4 18 Report Back The available messages and their description can be seen in Table 4 5 Table 4 5 Report Back Messa
27. art gates and goals Table 4 4 describes how Time data is used for each field type Table 4 4 Task time types Time field Start out or Start in The time at which the start opens The start is only validated when the pilot crosses the perimeter line at a time later than the defined time The TTG time to go will show how much time remains to the opening of the start i e the difference between this field s value and the local time of day Navigation to next point will only continue after the validation of the start Goal Cylinder or Time of goal close The Goal Close data field displays how much Landing Time of compulsory landing The time will be used to calculate ES ine and Pse dene fel Move Route Point The order of a task point can be easily changed To change the order simply select the waypoint using the UP and DOWN buttons Push the ENTER button to activate the actions menu list Then select the Move Route Point option and push ENTER button A cursor will be shown next to the selected waypoint Using the UP and DOWN buttons move the task point to the desired position and push ENTER Remove Route Point To remove a task point select it using UP and DOWN buttons and then pushing the ENTER button to activate the Task Point Menu chose the Remove Route Point option and push ENTER to remove it from the list Send to Server Entering this menu allows the LIVE SD pilot to send the task to server for Live Trackin
28. ble 4 2 Waypoint Menu Options Add WP to Task Adds the selected waypoint to the end of the Task Insert New WP Starts a new waypoint entry The current location is automatically used for default waypoint data Edit WP Start editing the selected waypoint Delete WP Delete the selected waypoint If the waypoint is being used in the Taskthis option is disabled Delete all way Deletes all waypoints and Task Go to Point Forces navigation to the selected waypoint This overrides the A task navigation Edit Task Starts editing Task If no waypoints have been added to the task A this option is disabled Add Waypoint to Task To add a waypoint to the Task select the waypoint 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 point options for the newly added waypoint will appear in the DO area allowing to set several aspects of the task point these can also be edited later Insert New Waypoint This menu allows the user to add a new waypoint to the waypoint list If the GPS is fix then the co ordinates and altitude used for the waypoint are based on the current position Edit Waypoint Entering this menu allows the properties of the selected waypoint to be changed The name of the waypoint can be changed along with the elevation lattitude longitude and if the waypoint is to be d
29. bols on the keys namely S3 Move Up S4 Move Down S2 Enter and S1 Back Exit 1 3 Using keys Inside Menu Changing parameters on the LIVE 5D can be performed through the menu Changing a parameter involves accessing the menu selecting an option and then changing a specific field value Accessing the main menu can be done by pressing the MENU key in flight mode Once in the menu UP S3 and DOWN S4 keys can be used to scroll up and down through the menu options list During the scrolling process the selected option is highlighted The ENTER S2 key should be used to access the option Depending on the menu option a new menu options list or a data fields list appears In any time pressing the MENU S1 key takes you back When accessing data fields the associated menu option becomes grayed and the respective field data item is highlighted Using the UP and DOWN keys changes the value on each field Pushing the ENTER key moves to the next field or in same cases to the next character digit Conversely pushing MENU key moves to the previous field or to the previews character digit If the ENTER key is pushed on the last field all the data in the selection section is stored and control returns to the configuration menu Inversely if the MENU key is pushed on the first data field the changed settings are ignored and control is returned to the configuration menu Tip When setting a data field that involves setting several characters e g when defining
30. ce of WHALEB and edit it Change the waypoint type to Start Out set the distance 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 first occurrence of WHALEB be set as Start otherwise the LIVE SD will assume that WHALEB needs to be completed before the start gate and that is not what is required for this task Nothing needs to be changed for the second occurrence of WHALEB since the default values are the ones wanted Edit each of the waypoints SHEEP HEBRON and GOOSEN and set the distance to match the wanted one All these waypoints are cylinders which is the default type Edit the first occurrence of WHALEL and change its type to End of Speed Section the Size to 2 000km and leave the Time with 00 00 and Cone with 0 0 Edit the second occurrence of WHALEL and change its type to GOAL The radius does not need to be changed since the radius is by default 400m Continuously pressing the ENTER bottom will make the cursor jump to the next parameter which is the time Time should be set to 17 00 which is the goal close time 53 SD Upon completion of editing the task the task list will show the distances for each leg and the start gate will be shown with an S end of speed section is shown with an E and the goal shown with a G The completed task should look like Figure 5 1 Waypoints 617 Task ALTURA APLAUNCH YY AMBROS AMIA 12 S
31. d for navigation proposes and is only used for calculating the total task distance Pushing ENTER while on a selected Taskpoint will open a TaskPoint Menu in the DO area at the bottom of the screen which will allow you to Edit Move or Remove a point from the Task Each Taskpoint defined has a particular type by default it will be set to Cylinder see Table 4 3 for a description of the various task point types End Speed Section Goal Cylinder Landing Table 4 3 Task point types Start In Exit Start Out Enter This first task waypoint is automatic defined as Take Off This waypoint however is only a place marker for calculating the entire task length The LIVE SD will ignore it for navigation purposes The cylinder type is defined by a coordinate and a radius The coordinate is taken from the chosen waypoint and the radius can be defined by the user The default value usually 400m for the radius is defined in the Turnpoint Size settings During naviga tion LIVE SD will advance to the next task waypoint once the pilot transitions over the cylinder line Start In route waypoints are start gates sometimes also known as Exit start The start is defined by a coordinate a radius and time start time LIVE SD will only validate the waypoint and advance to the next waypoint on the route if the user is inside the set radius after the start time Cross the start line after the start time Note that the sequence in which th
32. data or a list with possible actions for the waypoints Entering the page activates the WL area At the top of the page next to the title Waypoints is the total number of Waypoints stored in the LIVE SD instrument The first waypoint 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 different waypoint so the data changes matching the newly selected waypoint If the waypoints list is empty a list of available actions is shown in the DO area Since no waypoint exists only the Insert new Waypoint action is available Pushing the ENTER key when a waypoint is selected activates the waypoint actions menu WAM A list with the available actions is shown in the DO area Figure 4 3 3905 Total 31 6 Add WP to Task Insert New WP Edit WP Delete All Waypoints Go to Point Edit Task Figure 4 3 Waypoints Action Menu Available WAM options appear in black otherwise in grey For example in Figure 4 3 the option Delete WP is in not available because the Waypoint list is empty The LIVE SD can store up to 442 waypoints 22 SD 4 1 1 Waypoints Actions Menu On entering the waypoint actions menu WAM the selected waypoint becomes grayed indicating that waypoint specific actions will be carried out using the selected waypoint Once the WAM is active a list of options appears in the DO area A short description of each option is show in Table 4 2 Ta
33. der edges and the pilot s trace or track This element can be resized and moved around the screen 15 Figure 3 15 Map Element A typical map page in flight may look like Figure 20 In this figure is shown the scale on the bottom left The scale can be manually changed by pressing the F1 button to enlarge the map and therefore reduce the scale and conversely by pressing the F2 button to reduce the map and therefore increase the scale Figure 3 16 Map Page If flying a competition route the optimized route is drawn between the turnpoint cylinders The position of the pilot is indicated by the arrow and the trace for the last approximately 4 mins of the flight is shown Traces older than 4 mins are erased to reduce clutter on the screen 16 SD 3 2 Data field Elements Data field elements can be used to shown numerical information like altitude vertical speed speed glide ratio and many others These elements have configurable size and position although the text within has only 3 possible sizes The folowing table explains the available data fields As the LIVE SD firmware evolves this list will likely grow Table 3 6 Data fields Description Description Air Temperature as measured by the wireless speed probe Alt to CTR Altitude to CTR shows altitude to controller airspace a negative A number indicates we must sink to come out of controlled airspace Alt Gain Loss Altitude Gain Loss When at the top
34. difficult to readjust since nothing is visible Disable Triggers Page event triggers are a important unique feature of the LIVE SD Pages can be automatically activated switch to during flight by associating one of the pre defined trigger events with the page Triggers are set using the Flymaster DESIGNER program See the DESIGNER manual for details Each trigger is 42 SD Table 4 7 Page Triggers Events Airspace Warning This event occurs when the horizontal or vertical distance to an airspace is less then the respective thresholds Entering Thermal This event occurs when the pilot enters in a thermal A thermal is detected when the integrated vario is greater than 0 5m s and the rate of turn is greater 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 less than 5 Arriving at Turnpoint This event occurs when the pilot is arriving at less than 1km away from the turnpoint Start Opened This event occurs immediately after the start time This event is triggered when the instrument is powered up fired when certain conditions are met If a trigger is fired the LIVE SD switches to the associated page automatically For example consider that page 3 is associated with the trigger Airspace Warning and the current displayed page is page 2 If during flight an airspace limit is reac
35. e 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 increments The same bar grows on the right from the top of the scale to the bottom if sinking is detected Big Analog Vario The Big Analog Vario element shows the instantaneous vertical speed Figure 3 2 This element can be resized and re positioned Figure 3 2 Big Analog Vario This Element graphically represents the rate of climb scaled from 0 m s to 10 m s depending if you are climbing or sinking In this Element a black bar starts from the middle of the scale and grows at 0 1 m s increments up to 5 m s at the top of the scale When 5 m s value is reached the black bar starts to disappear from 0 m s middle of the scale until the top of the scale When the bar completely disappears the climbing rate is equal or above 10 m s The same process occurs when descending but from the middle of the scale to the bottom 10 SD Double Bar Analog Vario and McCready Indicator The Double Bar Analog Vario element shows not only the instantaneous vertical speed but also the Average Thermal and Next Expected Thermal McCready Indicator see Figure 3 3 This element can be resized and re positioned The element consists of 4 columns In the left most column a black bar is shown which indicates the average thermal climb rate This value is always positive In the next c
36. e rate cadence of the beeps increases as the climb rate increases This increase in rate is not linear The cadence parameter specifies which cadence curve should be used Current there are 2 possibilities represented in the graph of Figure 4 25 0 5 0 45 0 4 0 35 0 3 0 25 cad0 cadl Beep duration seconds 00 0 5 10 15 2 0 25 30 35 40 45 50 5 5 Rate of Climb meters per second Figure 4 25 Cadence timing Dynamic Frequency The LIVE SD beeps at a specified pitch frequency when a certain rate of climb is encountered When dynamic frequency is off the pitch frequency of that beep will remain constant if the rate of climb changes With dynamic frequency on the pitch of the beep may vary if the rate of climb varies during the individual beep Buzzer Is so called because of the sound it emits which resembles a buzzing sound The buzzer sound is produced when the rate of climb is close to but has not yet reached the specified Climb threshold see 13 3 1 This value is set between 0 and 9 with each unit corresponding to be 0 1 m s ie 3 is 0 3m s Subtracting this decimal value from the climb threshold will give us the value at which the LIVE SD will start buzzing For example with the LIVE SD default values Climb threshold 0 1m s and Buzzer 3 0 3m s the buzzing with start at 0 2m s because 0 1 0 3 0 2 In this case at 0 1m s 39 SD directly below the Climb threshold the LIVE SD will emit
37. es RF Probes M1 OS Paired No Figure 4 32 RF probes In the example shown in Figure 4 32 two M1 devices are visible These are distinguished on the screen by showing their serial number The serial number for the device can be found on the back of the wireless device By selecting one of the M1 devices and selecting ENTER the option to pair that device becomes available 4 9 11 Probe Alerts settings Set Altimeter Time Wario Acoustics Advanced Features Trace Screen Language Units Device settings RF Probes Probe alerts Pulse Threshold 150 Stal Off Figure 4 33 Probe Alerts The LIVE SD allows relating alerts with some probes values see Figure 4 33 A short description of each alert is sown in Table 4 10 45 SD Table 4 10 Probe Alerts Pulse Threshold Pulse Threshold above which the pulse data field will toggle be tween inverted numerical display and normal numerical display This allows the user to quickly see that they have a pulse above the desired level IAS speed value starting which a alarm is triggered TAS Probe needed 4 9 12 Polar Figure 4 34 Polar Parabola The Polar menu option allows the user to define the glider polar curve The polar curve is approximated by a parabola which is defined by 3 points identified by Maz Between Min see Figure 4 34 Each point corresponds to a pair lt horizontal speed in km h vertical speed m s gt where both val
38. esignated as a landing field To change any of the properties of the waypoint first select the waypoint Pressing S2 pulls up the menu allowing the waypoint to be edited Pressing the 2 button again will show a cursor as shown in Figure 4 4 indicating the character to edited Characters can be changed using either the S3 or S4 buttons Pressing the S2 button will move the cursor to the next charater 23 SD Waypoints 63 Route WHALEB WEED WE 215 HALEB Name GHALEB WHALEBAC Altitude 02579m 10 N 571690 4597757 Landing No 1424 Total 21 5 Figure 4 4 Edit Waypoint The waypoint may also be configured as a Landing these waypoint will then be displayed in the Nearby Landings see Section 4 5 Delete Waypoint It is possible to delete just a single waypoint on the LIVE SD Select the waypoint to be deleted by pressing either the S3 or S4 buttons Once the waypoint is highlighted selecting Delete Waypoint will remove the waypoint from the LIVE SD memory If a waypoint is in use int the Taskthe delete function will be disabled to delete the Waypoint it must firstly be removed from the Task Delete All Waypoints All of the waypoints can be removed from the LIVE SD Delete all the waypoints will also delete the Task When selecting this option the LIVE SD will prompt to ensure that this is exactly what is intended 2 Go To Point Selecting the Go To Point will force navigation to the selected waypoint Once
39. est lift is then graphically represented by the black ball in the inner Navigation Circle showing where the thermal core is relative to the pilot s position The position of the dot thermal core is constantly updated as the pilot moves When the pilot is over 300m from the thermal core the dot will be at the edge of the circle As the pilot moves closer to the thermal core the dot will move towards the center Figure 3 8 Thermap Core Map In Figure 3 8 the thermal core is currently behind the pilot at a distance of approximately 150 meters half of 300 m wheel radius Wind Flag The external circle contains a small flag which indicates the Wind Direction relative to the pilot direction direction the wind is coming from For example if the pilot is facing the wind then the flag is on the top of the circle In the example of Figure 3 5 the wind is blowing from Northeast 3 1 7 Airspaces Map The Airspaces Map element provides information to the user relative to specific three dimensional objects previously loaded to the instrument Each of this objects can be an airspace volume Airspace information can loaded to the instrument using the Flymaster Designer software see Designer user manual for more information The LIVE SD only accepts data in the OpenAir format and it has a limitation of 12000 polygons points See http www gdal org ogr drv_openair html for more information about the open air format Figure 3 9 A
40. evel can be seen using the sound element see Section 3 1 2 for more details Pressing the defined FS Key will scroll 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 for the current flight and will not override the volume level setting Every time the instrument is turned on if the sound is muted an alarm is generated in order to notify the pilot Note When the instrument is turned on the sound can be muted despite the volume level settings This occurs due to the Auto silent mode is activated see Section 4 9 5 for more details 1 7 Flight Start and Recording Most of the LIVE SD features are only available after the Flight Start This procedure is taken in order to avoid wrong calculations due to missing data Flight starts when all of there 3 conditions are met 1 GPS 3d fix is established 2 Speed goes over the configured Start Speed default value is 8km h 3 Average vario is greater than 0 15m s gt FLYMASTER SS 2 Flight Mode The Flymaster LIVE SD has two main working modes namely Flight mode and Menu mode Flight mode is used during flight and this allows the user to see information such as Altitude Speed or Vario The LIVE SD can have up to 16 different pages see Figure 2 1 in memory Each page corresponds to a different screen which can be completely con
41. figured by the user A set of 16 pages is called a Layout Once a Layout containing multiple pages has been defined the user can configure one function key to switch page see Section 4 9 14 for some page examples in Flight Mode Pages can also be switched automatically using triggers see Section 4 9 7 Note If the active page includes a Map Task Map or Airspaces Map S2 key will switch page Figure 2 1 Page examples Screen layout can be configured by the user using a free application called Flymaster Designer which can be downloaded from the Flymaster website www flymaster net This intuitive tool allows the user to create an unlimited number of layouts which can be saved to the computer uploaded to the instrument and even shared with other Flymaster users See the Designer user manual available on the website for more information about the Designer tool Designing a Layout consists of inserting a set of objects called Elements in the desired position and with the desired dimensions in each of the available 16 pages The Designer works by what you see 1s what you get This means that when you insert a element in a page and after uploading the layout to the instrument you will see exactly the same thing on the LIVE SD screen Note If a Layout is uploaded to the LIVE SD the previews layout is deleted all pages are deleted There are several elements available for the LIVE SD which are presented in the following sect
42. g Upon pressing the ENTER key the task is sent and the display will revert back to allowing the task to be edited Note Only the designated pilot can send the task to the server The default radius can be modified see Section 4 9 15 26 SD Get Task from Server Entering this menu allows the LIVE SD pilot to get a task from the Flymaster server The task is sent if it exists and the pilot is registered in the competition Upon pressing the ENTER key the LIVE SD will return to the Fligth Screen with the navigation active Delete Task Delete Taskwill delete the entire route On any waypoint push the ENTER button to activate the actions menu list Select the Delete Route option from the menu and push the ENTER button to confirm The route will be deleted and the WL area activated View Task Entering the View Task menu shows the task along with the optimised route as 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 cylinders is also shown along with a scale at the bottom left of the screen The total optimised distance for the task is show at the top of the screen Since this is optimised distance it will be less than the distance shown in the Task List Distance49 08km ke ij 4 ikm Figure 4 5 Task View 4 2 Task Delay During competitions it is common that the
43. g an airspace warning If this thresh old is passed a warning is emitted event CTR alt Th Minimum vertical distance that a pilot can be from an airspace without triggering an airspace warning If this threshold is passed a warning is emitted event Ref altitude The Ref Altitude parameter allows the user to define the altitude that is used to evaluate the airspace s proximity The parameter can be set to e GPS Altitude Altitude given by the GPS e Altitude Barometric altitude e Flight Level Barometric altitude expressed in hundreds of feet and computed assuming an International standard sea level pressure datum of 1013 25 hPa QNH Enable If this parameter is set to YES when a pilot is inside an airspace area as shown in a 2D representation but not necessarily inside the airspace the airspace is drawn in Black In this case all other airspaces are drawn in Grey In the example of Figure 4 39 it is represented an airspace black a distance threshold of 3000m and a vertical threshold of 200m both in red 200 m rh s 3000 m Figure 4 39 Airspace Settings Example 49 SD 4 9 17 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 data from a remote server The applications of this capability are huge including amongst other applications Live Tracking To have communications a SIM card should be used
44. ges The pilot is ok and has its own retrieve so it does not need one trieve The pilot is ok and needs retrieve Need Assistance The pilot has some problem and it needs assistance 4 9 Settings Menu The Settings Menu is used to configure the LIVE SD s many features The menu screen is divided into two sections On the top of the screen all the menu options are shown Depending on the menu option selected the associated configurable parameters are shown on the bottom of the screen see Figure 4 19 The desired option can be selected using the UP and DOWN keys and the corresponding parameters altered after pushing the ENTER key 34 SD Settings Set Altimeter Time Wario Acoustics Alerts Advanced Features Trace Screen Language Units Device settings RF Probes QNH 1014482 Get from GPS Auto Altimeter 2ift Altitude 175ft Figure 4 19 Settings Menu Note that on the right hand side of the display is a scroll bar showing where the relative position of the displayed menu compared to all of the other settings available in this menu All the menu options are explained on the folowing sections 4 9 1 Set Altimeter The Set Altimeter page Figure 4 20 allows the user to adjusts the barometric altimeter A barometric altimeter calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure and should not be confused with the GPS al titude which is calculated based on satellite information See the article in ht
45. gner is correctly installed do the following procedure 1 Open the Designer 2 Select Tools gt Firmware see Figure 7 1 3 Use the new box to choose the latest firmware file downloaded from our website 4 Connect the LIVE SD to the PC using the cable supplied If it is the first time the LIVE SD is connected to the PC wait until Windows show the message that new hardware is present and ready to use 5 Click the Send to Instrument button and the update should start automatic A message appears saying Programing and a progress bar starts to grow If after a few seconds nothing happens reset the LIVE SD see section Section 1 5 6 When the process is finish the application shows a message saying complete see Figure 7 2 Dis connect the USB cable and the LIVE SD will start to work 57 Firmware upload lx C Users Downloads firmware 103v GpssDPlusmf Ol Figure 7 2 Firmware Update Done 58 SD 8 Interfacing with GPSDump With the Flymaster GPS it is possible to download tracks and upload waypoints using the GPSDump interface GPSDump is freeware that can be downloaded to your MAC or PC This section will describe how to use the GPSDump interface It is assumed that the correct drivers have been installed on the computer and that GPSDump has been installed 8 1 Configuring GPSDump Before you can start interfacing your Flymaster GPS unit with your computer you must first make sure that you have set the correc
46. gure 3 11 Altitude Graph Element 14 SD The range of the horizontal axis is fixed and corresponds to 240 seconds 4 minutes while the range of the vertical axis is automatically adjusted in order to accommodate the gained height In reality the altitude graph element is a plot of the absolute barometric altitude over the last 4 minutes of flight Figure 3 12 4 m 4 Jur 00 06 41 ime 17 23 23 Figure 3 12 Altitude Plot 3 1 9 Wind Arrow The Wind Arrow element Figure 3 13 is a re sizable graphical element Figure 3 13 Wind Arrow Element When used in a layout an arrow is draw showing the wind direction relative to the pilot direction direction the wind is coming from For example if the pilot is facing the wind 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 is blowing from East Both the wind speed and direction value can be seen in a data fields val EO A Figure 3 14 Wind Arrow Note that both wind direction and speed are calculated based on the GPS ground speed while the pilot is turning so there is no need of wind speed probe The wind speed calculation accuracy increases with the number of turns made 3 1 10 Map Page The MAP element Figure 3 15 provides information to the user about their position relative to waypoints cylin
47. had been tagged and recorded For airspace they would trigger the buffer zone being 5m further away The size of the safety margin can be changed by scrolling through the numbers using the UP and DOWN keys Pressing ENTER moves to the next digit Turnpoint Size The default turnpoint cylinder size is set in this menu The size of the cylinder can be changed by scrolling through the numbers using the UP and DOWN keys Pressing ENTER moves to the next digit This value is used as the default cylinder size during task creation see Section 4 1 1 Datum Two datum models can be set on the LIVE SD Options available are WGS 84 and FAI sphere At the start of any competition be sure to check what Datum is used by the scoring system to ensure that the correct distances are being reported 4 9 16 Airspace settings CTR dist Th 3000m CTR alt Th 200m Ref altitude Flight Level Enabled No Grey lines No Figure 4 38 Airspace Settings 48 SD This menu allows the user to define certain parameters related with airspaces Each of the parameters can be changed using UP and DOWN keys Pressing the ENTER key confirms the value and jumps to next parameter Changes can be undone by pressing the MENU key As shown in Figure 4 38 there are 5 parameters related to the airspace which are explained in Table 4 12 Table 4 12 Airspace Menu Settings CTR dist Th Minimum horizontal distance that a pilot can be from an airspace without triggerin
48. he direction to WP2 even though WP1 has not been reached Small course corrections are sometimes required and these are shown on the LIVE SD by a fine adjustment indicator in the form of the small arrow 4 Arrow 4 to the left means the pilot should turn slightly to the left and inversely arrow 4 to the right indicates a small adjustment to the right is needed In the example of Figure 3 6 arrow 4 is pointing to right indicating that the pilot should turn right slightly When the course is perfect 1 e less than 1 off the LIVE SD indicates this by showing a large arrow forward Figure 3 7 Figure 3 7 Perfect Heading Note that a start is automatically validated when a pilot correctly completes the start Until the start is valid the LIVE SD will not advance to the next point in the route Another important aspect of the start is that the LIVE SD does not point to the start cylinder but rather to the next turn point on the list The 12 SD distance to the start will become highlighted when the pilot is in an irregular position i e inside a start cylinder where he should be out or vice versa Thermal Core Map Another useful feature of the Navigation Circle Element is the thermal core map This map corresponds to a black dot which is shown inside the inner navigation wheel together with the navigation arrows During a thermal climb the LIVE SD keeps track of the strongest climb values point for each 50m layer The point of strong
49. hed the device will automatic change the page 3 The current available triggers for the LIVE SD are show in Table 4 7 This menu can also be used to disable all the page triggers at once In order to disable page triggers the Disable Triggers option should be set to Yes using the UP or DOWN keys and confirmed with the ENTER Key Inverse Titles Inverse titles allows the user to change the background of the titles as illustrated in Figure 4 31 OX Gr ATAT 0 DOL Rr ATAT 0 3 e Altitude Speed Arrival 2 Goal Arrival Goal Dist Goal G R M G G R Goal a ee Dist Line 49917 HILL 499 Ave Vario Alt Galn j 5 0 1 nM r 0 240km Z N 0 240km Z N 5 0 Si i BO Figure 4 31 Inverse Titles The figure of the left shows the normal display and that on the right shows the same display with inverse titles set to Yes 43 SD 4 9 8 Language Units The Language and Units menu option allows the user to change the LIVE SD interface language and units A short description off the available options for this menu are shown in Table 4 8 The UP and DOWN keys can be used to change each field option Pushing the ENTER key confirms the current field value and highlights the following field Pushing the MENU key will undo changes Table 4 8 Language Units Menu Options Altitude Units Altitude can be show in Meters or Feet Temperature units can be Celsius or Farenheit Coords Coordinates format These can be ei
50. imb A i instead of going straight to the Conical End of Speed Section Cur G R Current glide ratio calculated using the average vario value and average ground speed CTR Name Name of the airspace causing warning or violation CTR Status Status message of airspace will show Violating when in controlled airspace Immenent Alt when close to entering airspace vertically or Pos Immenent when close to entering airspace horizontally Date Current date This value is automatic set when the device gets a valid GPS Signal Continued on next page 17 Table 3 6 continued from previous page Field ID Dist CTR Distance to controlled airspace When more than one airspace area is in range the closest will be shown When inside an airspace area the distance shown is to the closest edge Horizontal distance from the pilot position to the cone Dist ConeA Horizontal distance from the pilot to the cone arrival point Dist Edge Distance to Edge Shortest distance to the optimal point of the A next waypoint using route optimisation Dist Goal Distance to goal is the total distance from the current position to the goal The distance is calculated considering that the optimal route is made through all pending turnpoints Dist Line Distance to Line Shortest distance to the waypoint line circle Distance line corresponds to the Distance Next minus the way point radius Dist Next Distance to Next Shortest distance to the waypoi
51. ining the time Land in shows the amount of time remaining before having to be on the ground Last Send Time ellapsed since the last data packet for position was sent to a the live tracking server Latitude Current position latitude according to the format defined in the AA settings menu Longitude Current position longitude according to the format defined in the A settings menu Max Alti Maximum altitude reached during current flight This is based on barometric altitude Continued on next page 18 SD Table 3 6 continued from previous page Field ID Max Climb Once a flight has started it shows the maximum rate of climb encountered during the flight This value uses the integrated vario not the instantaneous rate of climb This provides good indication of the quality of the day s thermals This value is reset when the instrument is switched off Max Sink Once a flight has started shows the maximum sink encountered during the flight Note that these values are using the integrated vario When the instrument is switched off this value is reset back to zero Max Speed Maximum Speed returned by GPS reached during the flight es When the instrument is switched off this value is reset back to zero MceRdyNxt Thrm Next thermal expected average speed calculated based on the Mc Cready Theory Considering the defined polar it calculates the speed next thermal should have if you are flying at a certain mea
52. ion SD 3 LIVE SD Elements The main objective of an element is to provide information to the user Elements can be Graphical or Data Field type Each element has its own properties which can be changed in order to alter the element behaviour and or shape 3 1 Graphical Elements Graphical elements are characterized by providing information in a graphical way Most of the graphical elements have fixed dimensions although their position can be altered As the LIVE SD firmware evolves the list of Graphical Elements will likely grow The current list includes the following graphical elements 3 1 1 Battery The Battery Element provides a graphical indication of 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 fixed dimensions Table 3 1 Battery Element description CB Battery level above 90 4 Battery level between 70 and 89 42 Battery level between 50 and 69 AS Battery level between 30 and 49 HIS Battery level between 15 and 29 HS Less than 15 battery remaining 3 1 2 Sound The Sound Element provides graphical representation on the current volume level Table 3 2 Shows the relationship between what is shown and the sound level This element has fixed dimensions Table 3 2 Sound Element description Symbol gi Sound Level 6 maximum sound level Gi Sound Level 5
53. irspace Element When the element of Figure 3 9 is inserted in a layout using DESIGNER a 2D map box is shown on the instrument see Figure 3 10 On the bottom left of the map the scale is indicated in Km and on the centre of the map is an arrow This arrow represents the pilot position and its orientation indicates the bearing of the movement The map is always oriented North Up Note When new Airspaces data is uploaded to the LIVE SD using DESIGNER the previews data is deleted If a empty Airspaces data file is uploaded then all the Airspaces will be deleted 13 SD The first time the map is drawn it is centred on the last GPS position the LIVE SD has in its memory The map is re centred once the flight starts i e when a valid gps signal exists and the start speed see Section 4 9 5 is reached Note After new Airspace data is uploaded to the LIVE SD it can only be seen on the Map after the Flight Starts Once the flight starts the map is redrawn with an arrow representing the pilot which will move around the map indicating the relative position of the pilot to each of the airspace areas If the pilot is outside a visible airspace area then a gray line is used to draw the area whereas if the pilot is inside the airspace then a black line is used instead Note that being inside a airspace area 2D does not mean that the airspace is being violated since the pilot can be above or below the defined 3D shape In order to have mo
54. is limit to calculate the Land In data field On some occasions for safety reasons landing is recommended to be elsewhere so a different waypoint may be used 3WARNING Whenever a modification is done to the Task navigation will be restarted at the beginning of the Task 20 SD When the LIVE SD validates a turnpoint it emits a audible notice informing the user that navigation has advanced to the next waypoint this audible notice can be disabled in the Alerts setting see Section 4 9 4 Edit route point When task points are added to the task by default their type is Cylinder and have a 400m radius except for the first one as mentioned above which is set as Take off To modify a particular task point select the task point using the UP or DOWN buttons then push ENTER to open the Task Point Menu Finally select the Edit Route Point and push ENTER The task point parameters can now be edited Changing the task point type will cause the Time field to be displayed when applicable Very important The sequence in which the waypoints are listed is critical since the LIVE SD will navigate them in that order so in the case of a start gate which is also a turn point as is commonly used in competition tasks the start must be placed before the turn point The Time is only available on turn point types that are time related so the Time field will only be visible when the turn point type requires a time e g St
55. is waypoint appears in the task list in very important Start Out is the most commonly used start gate sometimes also known as an Entry start LIVE SD will only validate this way point and advance to the next waypoint when the user is outside the radius after the start time Cross the start line after the start time The start is defined by a coordinate a radius and time start time Note that the sequence in which this waypoint ap pears in the task list in very important Frequently the task time stops before the end of the task Goal The point where the time stops is the End of Speed Section ESS The ESS can be a cylinder defined by a coordinate and radius or a Cone defined by a coordinate a radius and a ratio cone ratio Both ESS types have a time parameter The goal cylinder is very similar to the Cylinder expect for the fact that it has a Closing Time The closing time is used to calculate the Goal Close user defined field A goal line is defined as a line with a specific length and centered in a coordinate By definition the line is perpendicular to the direction taken from the previous task waypoint to it A Goal Line with length of 400m will extend 200m either side of the centre of the co ordinate that is designated as a goal line Most of the times landings can take place at the Goal In this case the Goal point may be inserted again which allows the definition of a Landing limit time The LIVE SD will then use th
56. itical Airspace Data 29 4 5 Nearby Landings SD It is possible to define waypoints as Landing allowing the pilot to quickly check for landing options The Nearby Landings page will show all the waypoints defined as Landings for which the necessary glide ratio is finite Glide ratio s are calculated once the Flight Starts Besides the waypoint name the distance and glide ratio are also shown The list is sorted by glide ratio in ascending order see Figure 4 10 On the example of Figure 4 10 the closest airfield is 12 48 Km from our present location and the necessary glide ratio to reach it is 9 6 The Nearby Landings page can also be used to make a Go To Use the UP and DOWN keys to select the desired waypoint then push the ENTER key to immediately activate navigation to the selected waypoint In order to define a waypoint as a landing the Landing parameter should be set to Yes in the waypoint edit screen see Section 4 1 1 Note The Nearby Landings page can be accessed directly from the Flight Mode screen by using a short cut function key see section Section 4 9 14 Near Airfields BOOG B002 B004 B007 Figure 4 10 Nearby Landings 4 6 Flight Log 15 25 15 68 23 13 12 488 9 6 h h ache mh O O The Flight Log option allows the user to access information about previous saved flights Figure 4 11 The top half of the screen lists flights stored in memory Each flight is identified by the take off
57. more accurate the position fix QNH 1013 250 Get from GPS No Altimeter 58m Altitudez 58m Figure 4 20 Set Altimeter 39 SD 4 9 2 Time The Time page allows the user to set the vario integration time track log parameters and the Universal Coordinated Time UTC offset Figure 4 21 Vario Integr 10s Track interval 1s UTC offset 00 00 Figure 4 21 Timing Parameters The current firmware version supports two interval related parameters the Vario Integrator and Track Interval Vario Integrator The Integrated vario is calculated by integrating the vertical speed during a period of X seconds defined by this value In the example of Figure 4 21 the integration period is 10 seconds default value Track interval During flight the LIVE SD stores a track log point every track interval seconds Track recording starts automatically when the Flight Starts see Section 1 7 However when a 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 6 about track log memory capacity UTC offset Using GPS data the LIVE SD automatically adjusts the internal clock to the Universal Coordinated Time UTC The user should adjust the UTC offset so that the time displayed by the LIVE SD matches the local time 4 9 3 Vario Acoustics The Vario Acoustics settings menu option allows the user to change vario sound related parameters The user
58. ng it easy to understand the location of the thermal Grey lines Set 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 with either the track relative to North see Figure 4 28 or with the current heading to the top of the screen see Figure 4 29 When Track UP is Off you will see the map turning around the pilot while with North UP you will see the pilot moving around the Map Ll 0 120km Figure 4 28 Track Up Off 41 SD A 257 4 29 7 Lo 4 0 120km Figure 4 29 Track Up On 4 9 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 30 Settings Set Altimeter Time Wario Acoustics Alerts Advanced Features Trace Screen Language Units Device settings RF Probes Disable triggers No Inverse Titles Yes Figure 4 30 Screen Settings Screen Contrast Contrast may be adjusted to the pilot s needs You can use the UP and DOWN keys to move the contrast bar Figure 4 30 Move the bar to the right to increase the contrast and to the left to decrease the contrast When in the desired position push the ENTER key to confirm the value WARNING Beware of adjusting a very low contrast value may cause the display to be totally blank With a blank screen it is
59. not responsible for any damages resulting from incorrect or no data provided by the Flymaster LIVE SD Flight safety is the sole responsibility of the pilot It is unsafe to operate the Flymaster LIVE SD while in the air Failure by the pilot equipped with a Flymaster LIVE SD to pay full attention to the aircraft and flying conditions while flying could result in accident with property damage and or personal injury SD Contents Lal 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 3 1 3 2 4 1 4 2 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 6 4 7 4 8 4 9 Getting Started Charging the Battery III Mad 1 III IEEE Using keys Inside Menu Switching LIVE SD On em o e eo s ee eee RE He SR RG ew ptasi Resetting the LIVE SD SETE TUE VOU rro ee hee eh ee KEE eR EH Be S Flight Start and Recording s ehh KE RASA a EO AA Flight Mode LIVE SD Elements Graphical Elements aaa aaa A ii pija ME mea me ne bi bne UE JE RA HAG db db e ik ua Da IA sa corres RRA EMEA AA A de Roni 3 1 3 Mobile Operator 2 42544 544405 e ae ode K eH EE RH eS Pelee Pe Aa os 6b ae EARL RO ee GS AP bose pce he ee te ee eee ee MM deb eee oes Olde NEVRONI os ee eh ee Eee MERRY Eee el ij 3 1 7 Airspaces Map ir wR EREDAR HS HEE Eww GEG HS Cie AOI iros ora 3 L9 Wind Arrow casan AAA DKK DH RSE EE HR Oleh DIG TOE on ek eS ee eee EES OR ER eee ee Oe ee Data field Elements n non a a a a
60. ns to ensure the scorer downloads the correct flight Delete Flight Selecting the Delete Flight option will delete the selected flight from memory Before deleting the flight a message is displayed asking the user to confirm the action Figure 4 12 Flight Log 2011 12 16 17 17 04 01 38 46 Delete flight Are you sure EC Figure 4 12 Delete Flight Delete All Flights All of the flights in the LIVE SD can be deleted by selecting the Delete all flights option A message is displayed asking the user to confirm the action of deleting all flights Figure 4 13 31 SD Flight Log 2012 12 01 00 21 09 02 48 27 2012 11 30 03 10 45 00 23 19 2012 11 29 04 28 28 00 21 33 2012 11 29 OT 2012 11 29 02 46 16 00 16 02 2012 11 29 02 03 18 00 10 58 2012 11 29 01 40 20 00 15 17 2012 11 29 01 25 00 00 05 45 2012 11 28 23 39 34 01 44 26 2012 11 28 23 30 38 00 02 34 Delete all flights Are you sure ON Figure 4 13 Delete all flights WARNING Deleting all flights will completely erase the flight log memory all track logs will permanently erased Memory capacity The current firmware version can store up to 131000 points without data from Flymaster accessories like HEART G or TASProbe which equates to over 36 hours with a 1 second recording interval obviously if you set it to a 10 second recording interval you get 360 hours See Section 4 9 2 on how to change the interval Also important to understand is
61. nt center Dis tance next corresponds to the Distance Line plus the waypoint radius Dist Start Distance to start Shortest distance to the start cylinder Dist Toff Distance to take off is the distance between the current point and eg tating pot VO Flight Level Current altitude in hundreds of feet based on a fixed QNH of 1013 25hPa Floor Shows the lower altitude of the airspace causing the warning i e airspace that you are violating or close to violating Fuel level in liters available when connected with Flymaster M1 G Force Current G Force being experienced by the pilot when using the Heart G sensor Goal Close Remaining time to goal close GPS Alti Altitude reported by the GPS G R Goal Glide ratio to goal Necessary glide ratio to reach the Goal consid ering that the optimal route trough remainng waypoints is made G R Next Glide Ratio to Next Necessary glide ratio to reach the next turn point Glide ratio made good The actual glide ratio towards the active turn point It is calculated using the integrated vario and the VMG Glide ratio to takeoff Necessary glide ratio to reach the take off Heading in degrees returned by GPS Int Temperature Temperature inside the instrument Land In During competition tasks it is common usually due to safety rea sons to have a land by time The land by time is defined by adding a waypoint typically the goal to the already defined task setting it as Landing and def
62. of the thermal displays the altitude gained from the base of the thermal else displays the aii altitude lost since reaching the top of thermal Altitude Current altitude This altitude is calculated based on the baro A metric pressure and depends on the QNH value Altitude2 Second Altimeter which can be set independently to the main IN E A OverGoal Altitude over goal is the difference between the current altitude and the goal s altitude based on barometric pressure 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 are used in the calculations Arrival Next Estimated arrival height above the next waypoint This means that wind day quality and glider performance are used in the calculations AveROT Average rate of turn in degrees per second Ave Speed Average ground speed calculated using a filter to show a smoothed speed eliminating erratic speed changes due to glider pitching etc Ave Vario Average Vario calculated using an integration time constant in a order to indicate smoother climbing rates Shows battery strength as a percentage of complete charge Current bearing in degrees Ceiling Shows the upper altitude of the airspace causing the warning i e airspace that you are violating or close to violating ConeVSpd The minimum thermal speed which compensates stop to cl
63. olumn a double arrow is shown which indicates the next expected thermal climb rate Finally the last columns show 2 bars indicating the climb rate and the sink rate See more about the McCready indicator in Chapter 6 Climb j 6 d Next k E Average A Thermal E ad Figure 3 3 Double Bar Vario and McCready Indicator Dial Analog Vario The Dial Analogue Vario element shows the instantaneous 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 rates can be set using the DESIGNER software ni NI Fa wY e ki r A ES I o 5 0 Figure 3 4 Dial Vario 3 1 6 Navigation Circle The Navigation Element is a multi information element which shows graphically the bearing wind direction and thermal core Additionally if a destination was defined waypoint the navigation element will also indicates the direction to the waypoint center the waypoint edge and the direction to the waypoint after the next one This element cannot be resized but can be re positioned For navigation information to be displayed the LIVE SD the Start Fligth conditions must be met see Section 4 9 5 Figure 3 5 Navigation Element Navigation information is shown within the inner most circles The external circle contains the cardinal 11 SD points and the Wind Flag The current traveling directi
64. on bearing corresponds to the point indicated in the top of the navigation circle On the example shown in Figure 3 5 the bearing is approximately 80 Navigation Arrows When a route is active the direction of next optimal point is pointed by an arrow larger arrow 1 The optimal point corresponds to the unique point on the waypoint cylinder which lies along the optimal route red route in the Figure 3 6 example If no route is defined the arrow will start showing the direction to the takeoff after the takeoff is detected TakeOff is the point taken when the Flight Starts Figure 3 6 Route Optimisation During a competition task flight using the optimal tangent navigation saves a substantial amount of time The smaller arrow 2 in the Figure 3 6 example points to the centre of next waypoint cylinder WP1 and the arrow 3 points to the optimised edge of the waypoint after the next one WP2 The combination of all three arrows provides a spatial location of the pilot relative to the next 2 waypoints The example in Figure 3 6 shows a hypothetical task A pilot navigating to the centre of the waypoint following arrow 2 will probably be flying the blue course whilst a pilot navigating using arrow 1 so probably flying the optimised route red course will fly the substantially shorter route The direction to the waypoint after the next one WP2 is represented by arrow 3 In the example arrow 3 is pointing along the green line which shows t
65. ource is connected since the instrument requires some time to calculate the remaining charge time A Slow charge is ok for topping up the battery but not for fully charging Use the wall or car charger to fully charge the instrument Note The instrument will not charge when it is turned on and connected to a PC The instrument must be turned off in order to charge the battery using the PC USB port This behavior is deliberate to prevent overwhelming competition organizer s download hubs Note Charging the instrument with high ambient temperatures should be avoided Such action can cause the battery to overheat and affect battery health 1 2 LIVE SD Keys Four keys are used to interact with LIVE SD see Figure 1 2 In this manual we will call MENU key S1 ENTER key S2 UP key S3 and DOWN S4 Each key has 2 functions depending whether the device is in flight mode or in menu mode Additionally the MENU key is used to power up the LIVE SD when it is switched off SD S3 S1 S2 Figure 1 2 LIVE SD keypad In the flight mode Keys S2 S3 and S4 have user configurable functions F1 F2 and F3 Functions are allocated in the Menu gt Settings gt FS Keys see Section 4 9 14 Note If the active page includes a Map Task Map or Airspaces Map FS Keys definition will be ignored In this case 3 and 4 will zoom in and out of the map whilst the S2 will switch page In menu mode all keys have fixed functions shown by sym
66. pening and will then change to SS Speed Section time which is the time elapsed after the opening of the start If no start gates are defined in the task or no task is defined then this field will show Dur which in this case is the time elapsed since takeoff The takeoff event is triggered when ground speed exceeds 5km h and a 3D fix is available Note The Altitude field indicates the absolute height in meters or feet depending on the setting This altitude corresponds to the barometric altitude and thus depends totally on the QNH absolute pressure at a given moment and location in regards to the correspondent pressure at MSL The altimeter cannot be reset but can be set using the corresponding menu option see Section 4 9 1 20 SD A Menu mode When in flight mode pushing the menu S1 button accesses the menu mode When in menu mode pushing the menu S1 button will go back to flight mode Main Menu avypointsfT ask Task delay Task Navigator Critical Airspaces Nearby Landings Flight Log Pages Settings Shutdown Figure 4 1 Main Menu To access the different items on the menu you can use the UP S3 and DOWN S4 keys Once a menu item is selected pushing the ENTER S2 executes the selected function A short description of each option can be seen in Table 4 1 Table 4 1 Main Menu Options Waypoints Task Accesses LIVE SD s waypoints and Taskdefinitions see Section 4 1 Task delay Shifts all time parame
67. re information about possible airspaceA Zs violation some data fields should be added to the layout This data fields are Distance to CTR Altitude to CTR and CTR Status Figure 3 10 The Dist CTR data field shows the 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 distance the vertical distance can be negative A positive vertical distance indicates that you are outside the airspace whereas a negative distance indicates that you are inside the airspace Additionally the CTR status field will indicate if an airspace is being violated by displaying Violating If the pilot is not violating the airspace but it is inside a predefined margin then the messages Altitude Imminent or Position Imminent will be shown En 4 149 Violating 99 Figure 3 10 Airspace Map and Associated Data Fields When the page contains an airspace map element the UP and DOWN keys can be used to change the map scale pressing the UP key will decrease the scale and the DOWN key will increase the scale The corresponding user defined key function will be disabled 3 1 8 Altitude graph The Altitude graph element Figure 3 11 corresponds to a graph of barometric altitude versus time Altitude is shown in the vertical axis graduated in meters with time shown on the horizontal axis graduated in seconds Fi
68. rt eed XC Trainer MXP Topas MXP sr Save log Select from Registry MLE types Esas Flight Data COM SALUOHTI Cancel C UTM Abort transfer Exit UTC date UTC time Latitude Longitude H Figure 8 3 COM port options Once the COM ports have been configured you should be good to go 8 2 Uploading Waypoints To upload waypoints open the waypoint file in GPSDump Your screen should like this Figure 8 4 60 psDump 0 ama m m EF hA 1 a LAHTI Wait a Garmin Brauniger XC Trainer MLR types Save kmil Garmin USB Flytec Flymaster Leonardo l whaleback10 wpt 61 waypoints read bas ID Latitude Longitude Height T Name DEER N41 36 25 32 W 122 07 41 40 2100 DEER MOUNTAIN WHALEB N 41 31 41 70 W 122 08 26 46 2579 WHALEBACK MOUNTAIN LAUNCH N41 32 06 37 W 122 09 09 24 2266 WHALEBACK LAUNCH SHASTA N 41 24 37 74 W 122 11 43 26 4272 MT SHASTA ASHBUT N41 26 48 96 W 122 02 53 94 2493 ASH BUTTE CREEK MCCLOU N41 17 06 30 W 121 56 24 60 1132 MCCLOUD AIRSTRIP WEED N41 26 07 08 W 122 21 59 16 1092 WEED SHEEP N41 34 51 36 W 122 13 19 44 1705 SHEEP ROCK HERD N 41 37 42 06 W 122 13 50 76 2085 HERD PEAK MTSHEE N41 48 06 00 W 121 53 07 02 1872 SHEEP MOUNTAIN HEBRON N41 42 11 94 W 122 01 02 46 1865 MT HEBRON ORR N41 40 03 00 W 121 58 33 96 1772 ORR MOUNTAIN CEDAR N41 42 33 12 W 121 54 31 26 1812 CEDAR MACDOE N 41 49 48 42 W 122 00 18 84 1298 MACDOEL CITY JUNIPE N 41 50 12 00 W 121 59 1
69. selected by pressing the ENTER button the instrument will jump to the flight 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 the LIVE SD will remember where it was in the Task so when the Go To is canceled as described above it will resume the Taskat the point it was at before the Go To was activated Edit Task The LIVE SD will only store one Task This is deliberate to prevent flying an incorrect Task A Taskcan be edited by selecting the Edit Task option of the WAM Selecting the Edit Task option will highlight the first Taskpoint in the TL area 4 1 2 TaskList The TaskList contains all the Taskpoints and allows to define their parameters in the task Pushing the UP or DOWN buttons will move between the Taskpoints For the highlighted Taskpoint the DO area WARNING Do not confuse this function with Delete Task The last thing you want is to be sitting on takeoff with no waypoints in the LIVE SD to clear the previous Taskuse the Delete Task function described in section Section 4 1 2 24 SD will display the Taskpoint parameters When a Taskhas only one point it is considered as a Go To type route The LIVE SD will automatically start navigating to that point Note When the Taskcontains more than one point then the first turn point will automati cally be set as Take Off The Take off is ignore
70. sk Navigator menu all of the route points are shown as both the short name and long name Figure 4 7 Selecting any of the routepoints will show a navigation wheel in the lower part of the screen showing the direction to that point along with the distance to the waypoint cylinder The distance shown is the Distance to Line which is the closest point on the cylinder to where the pilot is This is not necessarily the optimum point on the cylinder The Start waypoint will be grayed since it is not possible to navigate to a start Pressing the menu button will get you back to the flight screen without any change to the navigation Note An override to the navigation will assume that the start has been done 28 SD 4 4 Critical Airspaces Critical airspace shows a list of airspaces that are closer from the pilot s position than the distance and altitude thresholds defined in the Airspace Settings see Section 4 9 16 This list is generated when in flight mode and is ordered by the sequence in which the airspace appears in the file used to create the airspace For example if the altitude and distance threshold is set to 200 meters then all the airspaces that are closer from the pilot s position than 200 meters are shown on the Critical Airspaces list A typical list of airspace may look like Figure 4 8 Note that the number in parentheses indicates the number of airspace polygons loaded into the instrument Critical Alrspaces 238 SALIN
71. speed This value is also calculated by the LIVE SD and shown on the McRdyNatThrm data field Additionally the McRdyNatThrm value can also be visualized on the Double Bar Analog Vario see Section 3 1 5 On the example of the Figure 6 1 Next thermal indicator points to 3 5m s while the Average Thermal shows something around 2 1m s Ideally they should point the same value so the pilot should reduce their speed Naturally he could maintain speed if he expects that the next thermal is stronger 107 0 a Next JE 4 oe z x Average z y 1 40 Figure 6 1 McCready Indicator 96 SD 7 Firmware Flymaster follows a policy of continuous improvement of its products This means that a new version of firmware can be uploaded from our website periodically The update process is simple Before beginning update procedure make sure you download the next files from the download page of LIVE SD product section e Designer software Windows windows 7 64bits or MAC OS X e The last version of the firmware xxxFirmware fmf The first step of the updating procedure consists in installing the Designer software In order to do that you should run the installation file and follow the on screen instructions The installation procedure includes the usb drivers so there is no need to install further software lol x Fie Edit View Format Tools Hep l PR a Airspaces oi Figure 7 1 Firmware Menu Option Once the Desi
72. t COM port on GPSDump Connect your instrument to the computer and make sure both are switched on In the GPSDump menu select the drop down menu under MISC as shown in Figure 8 1 below File Edit GpsDump Logs Wpts CIR View Window GpsDump 0 27 dev d Garmin Brauniger XC Trainer K Garmin USE Flytec Flymaster Product Status UTC date UTC time Latitude Lor Set COM port Set track gap time Set loop flight gap Analyse selected track general Analyse selected track FS Analyse selected track OLC Set Flymaster name Set Flymaster altitude alarm Upload COMPID CIVLID Dump debug data Figure 8 1 Setting up COM port On a MAC when you select COM port you should get a screen like this Figure 8 2 59 XA FLYMASTER me o O GpsDump 0 27 dev cu Bluetooth PDA Sync Garmin Brauniger XC Trainer MLR types Save kml Garmin USB Flytec Flymaster Leonardo Product Status Abort UTC date UTC time o aaa el BG km h dev cu Bluetooth PDA Sync dev cu usbserial A901051W Figure 8 2 COM port options Make sure you select the USBserial port as shown above On a PC when you select COM port a smaller dialogue box pops up listing all of the COM ports that are currently interfacing with the instrument Flymaster instruments typically populate with high COM port numbers such as COM 11 in the example below Figure 8 3 GpsDump 4 70 COM1 File Edit Logs pts CTR Misc View Help set COM po
73. t thermal Thrml Perfo Perfomance of the most recent thermal showing average rate of climb in most recent thermal Time Current local Time This value is automatic revised when the A device gets a valid Gps Signal see Note 2 Trans G R Glide ratio during transition Average glide ratio during transi N tions between thermals Continued on next page SD SD Table 3 6 continued from previous page TTG The TTG field is dynamic and will vary according to the current flight status and type of task defined It will show TTG time to go before start gate opening and will then change to SS Speed Section time which is the time elapsed after the opening of the start If no start gates are defined in the task or no task is defined then this field will show Dur which in this case is the time elapsed since takeoff The takeoff event is triggered when ground speed exceeds 5km h and a 3D fix is available Instant vario value Voltage Current battery level in Volts VMG Velocity made good is the speed at which the pilot is approaching Medi the active turn point alculated wind speed using gps speed Jser defined field 1 The data shown can be user defined DF DFS IDF 6 Jser defined field 6 The data shown can be user defined Note The LIVE SD considers a thermal has been entered when the integrated vario value is above 0 5m s and considers the thermal
74. tasks gets postponed or delayed Usually the take off the start gate goal close and land by times are all postponed or delayed Instead of having to edit the defined task the LIVE SD offers a task delay feature which moves all defined times in a task forward by X minutes 21 SD Main Menu Waypoints Task Task navigator Critical Airspaces Nearby Landings Flight Log GPS Pages settings Shutdown Task delay min Figure 4 6 Task Delay To delay a task when in the Task Delay menu simply push the ENTER button when the Task Delay is selected Figure 4 6 Then using UP and DOWN buttons set the number of minutes to delay Finally push the ENTER button to confirm 4 3 TaskNavigator This function is useful to override the automatic task navigation provided by the LIVE SD and should only be used if for some reason a mistake was made during the creation of the task When this option is selected the LIVE SD displays the task list Using the UP and DOWN buttons the desired waypoint can be selected Pressing the ENTER button will cause navigation to be resumed to the selected waypoint Route navigation will then continue in the sequence displayed in the task menu Task navigator LAUNCH WHALEBACK WHALEB WHALEBACK WHALEB WHALEBACK SHEEP SHEEP ROCK EBRON MT HEBRON GOOSEN GOOSENEST WHALEL VWHALEBACK WHALEL WHALEBACK HEBRON MT HE Dist Line 5211xm Figure 4 7 Task Navigator When entering into the Ta
75. ters in the active task see Section 4 2 TaskNavigator Allows manual override of navigation see Section 4 3 Critical Airspaces This page constantly shows the airspaces which are closer than the thresholds defined in the settings see Section 4 9 16 Near Landings Displays airfields page This page constantly shows the glide ra tios and distances to the nearest landing fields sorted by easiest glide see Section 4 5 Flight log Accesses the stored flights list see Section 4 6 Accesses different layout pages see Section 4 7 Report Back Allows sending GSM pre defined messages to the Flymaster mes sage server see Section 4 8 21 SD 4 1 Waypoints and Task Waypoints 65 Task HORNBR H LAUNCH VY HOWIZT H WHALEB 1 2 S ANS E shag ae 0 0 VVAYPOINT SHEEP SHE 9 0 UST KENO KEN HEBRON M 21 8 TASK UIST KLAMAT KgiGOOSEN G 17 2 WHALEL 189 MACDOE M WHALEL 0 0 G MAHAGO MCCLOU M MERRIL ME 3EC9 Total 68 1 Name LAUNCH WHALEBACK WAYPOINT Altitude 2266m iia Latitude N 41 32 06 36 Longitude VV 122 09 09 24 Landing No Figure 4 2 Waypoints and TaskScreen The Waypoints Taskpage allows the user to manage waypoints and define a route task As shown in Figure 4 2 the page is divided into 3 areas namely the waypoint list WL Tasklist TK and selected waypoint details options list DO The DO area can change according to which submenu you are in Specifically it can show the selected waypoint
76. ther e DD MM SS e DD MM mmm e DD dddd e UTM 4 9 9 Device Settings This menu option allows the user to execute some recovery functions A short description of the available options is shown in Table 4 9 Table 4 9 Device Settings Factory Settings Reset all parameters to the default factory values This will not change the layout to the factory default layout Care should be taken because all changes made by the user are lost Reset now Makes a hardware reset to the instrument The result is the same as the one presented in Section 1 5 Auto off If set to Yes the LIVE SD turns off 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 9 10 RF Probes The RF Probes menu option allows the user to pair up any of the Flymaster wireless devices including the M1 and Heart G to the LIVE SD Pairing is performed automatically When ENTER is pressed the LIVE 44 SD SD will look to see what wireless devices are around and it will shows these on the screen see Figure 4 32 Devices are identified by their name e g M1 TAS and serial number Devices can be selected using the UP or DOWN keys For the selected highlighted device the pairing state is shown on the bottom of the screen To pair a device the state should be changed from No to Yes Once paired the LIVE SD will always automatically connect with the wireless device The LIVE SD can be paired with several devic
77. thermal speed which allows the pilot to climb and reach the cone in the same amount of time This vertical speed value is shown in the Cone VSpd data field and corresponds to the minimum thermal speed which compensates climb instead of flying straight to reach the cone faster Note The minimum thermal speed indicated in the Cone VSpd data field does not take in account the wind drift If the winds blows in the cone direction the minimum thermal speed is lower than indicated otherwise is higher 55 SD 6 McCready Functions If the TASProbe is available then the LIVE SD provides some data related with the McCready theory like the Speed to Fly or McCready setting The Speed to Fly is the TAS value which maximizes the average Cross Country speed considering a certain average thermal speed This value is independent of the wind speed because the fastest average speed achievable through the air corresponds to the fastest achievable average ground speed To calculate the Speed to Fly the LIVE SD takes in account the polar and the average thermal speed The value is shown on the SpeedToFly data field Note Traditional the average thermal speed used to calculate 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 average thermal speed which maximizes the Cross Country
78. tion with a PDOP between than 1 5 and 2 0 3D position with a PDOP between than 2 0 and 3 0 3D position with a PDOP greater than 3 0 2D position no altitude information No GPS Signal Therefore the LIVE SD will only start recording a tracklog when 3D information is available The LIVE SD has an high sensitivity 50 channel GPS receiver which offers unmatched tracking performance in harsh signal environments 160 dBm sensitivity and very short acquisition times The LIVE SD has a 4 Hz 9 SD GPS update rate most of others only provide 1Hz which allows the LIVE SD pilot to see very small speed and position changes Furthermore the movement of the direction arrow is smoother and any position change is shown in a quarter of the time of other devices Note that the 4 Hz update rate requires more than 5 satellites in view More information about GPS accuracy and also other GPS related information can be seen in http en wikipedia org wiki Error_analysis_for_the_Global_Positioning_System 3 1 5 Vario The Analog Vario Elements shows information regarding the analogue instantaneous vertical speed There are four different Elements that can be used to display the vario All of these element can be resized and re positioned Analog Vario This Element which can be resized and repositioned graphically represents the rate of climb scaled from 0 m s to 10 m s depending if you are climbing or sinking Figure 3 1 Figur
79. tp www xcmag com 2011 07 gps versus barometric altitude the definitive answer GPS versus Barometric Altitude Since atmospheric pressure can vary substantially with meteorological conditions and so with time the baro metric altitude also varies according In order to have the correct altitude for a certain place the altimeter should be calibrated Calibrating the altimeter can be achieved 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 calibrated by adjusting the QNH for the local and time Changing the ONH will adjust the barometric altitude Altitude can also be set from the GPS Below the QNH you will find a Get from GPS field which can be set to Yes No or Auto Adjusting this value to Yes will make the LIVE SD take the altitude from the GPS and adjust the altitude accordingly The Yes is not stored in the setting since it is a one time only operation The Get from GPS can also be set to Auto with this value being stored in the settings When Auto is selected after being turned On the LIVE SD will automatically set the altimeter to the GPS altitude once the a valid GPS signal exists or whenever the pdop value is lower than the previous one Note that position dilution of precision pdop gives you an indication of how reliable the GPS altitude is at the moment The lower the pdop value the
80. tton The functions in Table 4 11 can be allocated to the FS keys Table 4 11 Function Key descriptions Set Volume Scrolls trough volume level The new level is kept until the LIVE SD is turned off Switch Page Scrolls trough Layout Pages Report Back Jumps from flight page directly into Report Back menu see Sec tion 4 8 Skip Waypoint If a task is defined it jumps to the next Waypoint Jumps from flight page directly into Pages menu see Section 4 7 Set Altimeter Jumps to Set Altimeter menu option in order to allows user to set Altimeter Task Navigator Jumps from flight page directly into Task Navigator page see Section 4 1 Reset A2 Sets altimeter 2 to zero Airfields Jumps from flight page directly into Near Airfields page see Sec tion 4 5 47 SD 4 9 15 Navigation Settings Settings Trace Screen Language Units Device settings RF Probes Probe alerts Polar Data fields FS Keys Safety margin 5m Turnpoint size 0 400km Datum V GSe4 Figure 4 37 Navigation Settings In this menu some of the navigation settings can be adjusted Figure 4 37 A explanation of each option can be found on the folowing sections Safety Margin The pilot can chose the safety margin they wish to use for any of the horizontal distances Using a setting of 5m as shown in Figure 4 37 would mean that in the case of a waypoint cylinder a pilot would be 5m deeper into the cylinder to ensure that it
81. ues are positive that are defined by the user see Figure 4 35 In order to avoid errors the Max and Min points should correspond respectively to the maximum and minimum horizontal speed of the glider The point Between should be some point between the Maximum and Minimum Settings Time Wario Acoustics Advanced Features Trace Screen Language Units Device settings RF Probes Probe alerts Polar Max 60 27 Between 40 1 0 Min 26 25 Figure 4 35 Polar 46 SD 4 9 13 Data fields The LIVE SD has 6 user defined fields UDF which the pilot can configure for his own needs using this menu UDF s are numbered from 1 to 6 A description of available data Fields can be found in Section 3 2 If UDF data fields are set up in the current layout then this menu can be used to defined which data fields are shown in each of the 6 UDF s Figure 4 36 UDF 1 Vario UDF 2 GRWNext UDF 3 Cur GR UDF 4 GR Goal UDF 5 YMG UDF 6 GRAM Figure 4 36 User Defined Fields Entering this menu automatically moves the user to UDF 1 By pressing either the UP or DOWN keys the user can select which data field is displayed Pressing ENTER will toggle to the next UDF When all six UDFs have been set pressing ENTER will save the settings 4 9 14 FS Keys In Flight Mode keys UP DOWN and ENTER can have user defined functions which provides shortcuts to certain functions This menu allows the user to associate a function with a bu
82. und and it is only at this point the green pilot hears the first beep from his instrument Auto Silent Setting Auto silent option ON will keep the LIVE SD s buzzer quiet until a Start Flight has been detected see Section 1 7 This function avoids listening the vario sound while waiting to take off The audio will then be kept active until the LIVE SD is switched off The default value for the auto silent parameter is ON Start Speed The start speed is one of the Start Flight conditions and it is used to define the minimum GPS speed in Km h that should be reached in order to initiate the flight Note that the Start Flight event is important to many other functionalities so care should be taken when setting this value For example if Auto Silent is on the vario will only beep after the flight starts The track data is also only saved after the flight starts 4 9 6 Trace This option sets the behaviour of the traces drawn on the Map view see Figure 4 27 40 SD Settings Set Altimeter Time Wario Acoustics Advanced Features Face Screen Language Units Device settings RF Probes Probe alerts Enabled Yes Auto Zoom Yes Grey lines Yes Track up Yes Figure 4 27 Trace Settings Enabled Setting this option to Yes will draw traces on the Task Map setting No a trace will not be drawn Auto Zoom Setting Yes causes the system to automatically zoom into the trace when entering a thermal maki

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