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3. AUTO MC mode Filial ul L D Average period 2 minutes Lift center Circle at cente Block speed to fly OFF Auto Force Final Glide OFF Use baro altitude ON TrueWind IAS The IAS box should be set to a reasonable glide speed you can keep with no problems going straight e By default this speed is 120kmh or 64knots You can change this value but our advice is that you don t choose a slow speed because of difficulty to maintain it constant during turbulence It is normally easier to keep a constant speed if your aircraft is flying fast e You are choosing the indicated air speed you shall read on your glider s speed indicator anemometer at any altitude e PARAGLIDERS should choose the Basic Speed Hands Up speed of their wing Check the basic speed for your wing at www para2000 org e You must stabilize your air speed to this value for a TrueWind period some seconds really during flight before asking for the TrueWind calculated TrueWind Period The Period box lets you choose the amount of time in seconds you will be holding speed and heading during straight flight before asking for the wind to be calculated A value between 8 and 15 is normally OK Suggested value is 10 There is a tolerance to this time period assuming that you couldn t keep track and speed constant enough At least 70 of that TrueWind period must be satisfied nevertheless LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafri
4. 2010 cup Waypoints 2 pwc2U09 wpt Supported formats are currently Airspace 1 NTALYAIRSPACE txt e Winpilot dat Airspace 2 e Naviter SeeYou cup Terrain file ITAIps500 dem dat e CompeGPS wpt Topology file For example you can load 2010 cup as file 1 and lt Waypoint notes WAYNOTES bd ay Wot outside terrain Include pwc2009 wpt as file 2 The first is a SeeYou file the second is a CompeGPS waypoint file with turnpoints for a competition Or you can load both cup or both dat or only one etc No restrictions Naviter s SeeYou cup format may bring you additional information for landable points such as runway length runway direction radio frequency etc Comments are truncated to 150 characters for memory reasons CHANGING A WAYPOINT and then pressing SAVE in config menu 21 will force LK8000 to rewrite the waypoint file this waypoint was Einige 4 belonging to For example if the waypoint you Sunset 17 38 modified was inside waypoint file 2 which is a Distance 340km SeeYou cup file then this file will be rewritten with the new waypoint at the end Bearing Alt diff MeO ADDING A WAYPOINT will eventually save it to Alt diff Mc current 985 m waypoint file 1 Whatever format it is using Alzate Brianza Read it again waypoint file 1 The first file you chose in config menu 1 NOT THE SECOND Read more about this in CompeGP
5. IBOX in landscape and portrait modes The biggest limitation of IBOX mode is that you must choose in advance which values have to be painted for each flight status cruise thermal final glide and auxiliary In portrait mode you can have 8 values painted while in InfoPages there are 4 pages of 16 values and one of them is fully configurable as well In IBOX mode some of the values can be selected and changed For example while running the simulator mode clicking on ALT ibox and the using up down arrow or virtual keys will change the altitude Apart from this the native LK modality is much more flexible and practical during flight To access IBOX you can get here from Screen Views or as a shortcut long click on the aircraft menu in the bottom right part of moving map To get back to LK view you do the same again So you can switch to IBOX and LK mode in a second LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 18 NavBoxes on the BottomBar The black bottom bar is showing five values on some high resolution devices such as HP314 six values are shown We call the bottom bar also Navboxes There are several stripes of values and you can change stripes clicking on the right or on the left part of the bottom bar BOA x77 QFE A cm 900 447 39 Clicking on the right will move to next stripe clicking on the left will move to the previous stripe When you get to the first stripe a higher CLICK sound i
6. Landscape vs Portrait mode As stated above LK can run both in portrait and in landscape mode The LK features are available only in fullscreen mode and portrait s fullscreen is vertical of course it won t be that good LK was thought for landscape mode primarily Here are different screenshots for a 640x480 device in landscape and portrait Ja 54 E A EI E e 1 E l M ER oromekmi 18 1 EX REAC j P 0 0 aaf x ALT TO TSKDIS TSKETE 229 81 34 18 16 BE MCREADY 1 TSKSPAV TL Awg GS Alt Dis O 229 34 0 0 0 MANUAL LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 5 TT 1 1 Cruise Dis 34 0 NxtArr Brg 1021 279 Alt Trk Alzate Ta 81 229 Wind I ManMEC T 24 VALBREMBO ORIO BAIALUPO ALZATE BRESSO LINATE ROVELLASC PRADELLE 2 1 APTS 1 3 Dist 0 0 10 2 20 1 36 6 39 2 42 1 48 5 123 141 gg 123 1094 1112 0 0 Reg E rx CAIOLO TL Avg G5 Alt 0 229 00 4 18 13 ME Reg E 34 0 mau 1323 Dis 34 0 o 2 1 apr 1 2 Dist ALBREM 0 0 ORIO 10 2 BAIALUP 20 1 ALZATE 34 0 BRESSO 36 6 LINATE 39 2 ROVELLA 42 1 PRADELL 48 5 CAIOLO 30 4 VARESE 34 9 SAMOLAC 58 5 GHEDI M 61 5 LUGANO 61 5 CALCINA 64 8 keno 1 1 Cruise Alzate Dis To 34 0 81 NxtArr 1021 Alt 229 Wind Brg 279 Trk Th All ManMC
7. TL Avg TL Avg GS Alt 0 229 Dis 34 0 GS O Notice that portrait mode requires smaller fonts and it will be generally harder to see during flight than a landscape device You can rotate the screen of your device with any of several free tools available on the internet Most of devices can switch to landscape mode directly from their screen configuration PNAs are all landscape devices LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Install LK8000 You can install the LK on an SD card or on the device internal memory The best and preferred method is to install LK8000 on an SD card when your device is reset for any reason everything will be available as usual on the external card and you will be ready to takeoff with no problems SD CARD INSTALL Choose a fast SD CARD Do not choose a cheap and slow SD card Performance will be greatly degraded For example you may choose any of the Sandisk Ultra series Your device may or may not support SDHC cards so be careful to choose an SD that your device can really read and write Unzip the content of the ZIP archive inside the main directory of the SD card lf you have temporarily connected the SD card on your PC for installing LK you may see the external disk drive as E for example In this case after unzip you should see a directory called E LK8000 Inside that directory you find the executables the dll libraries and all of the needed subdirectories _Ai
8. dis am ET x WU d a e i a A AAA o 000 Tactical Flight Computer User Manual Preliminar Documentation Software version 1 20 1 20b oee addendum pages at the end of the document for last updates Date 2010 03 18 Version 2 Language English Author P Ventafridda Revised by A Broadribb C 2010 Paolo Ventafridda All Rights Reserved Introduction LK8000 vs XCSoar LK8000 is based on XCSoar software www xcsoar org at version 5 2 3 9 which then became the 5 2 4 version contributed since the 5 2 2 release adding the Alternates and BestAlternate functions the VisualGlide and the whole support for PNA devices car navigators In the XCS software at that time many bugs were existing at all levels With the help of the betatester community on the www posifrontal com forum we have been able to find and correct most of those old problems About 500 pilots participated in this bug hunting phase in late 2009 making version 1 18a a proven stable release This 1 20 is a step forward with innovative functions Credits are due to all of the 5 2 2 XCSoar developers You can find their names on the XCSoar official website Although based on XCS the LK is now very different software The old code was completely rechecked and eventually corrected The user interface was totally redesigned and rewritten from scratch Many new features were added Paragliding and Delta sup
9. E 5 Y 0 0 alto es aa al By default Flarm will not transmit to LK8000 traffic informations from aircrafts that are more than 3 km far away You can command Flarm to extend or reduce this range up to 25km or down to 2km This operation can only be done while on ground Highes Traffic on the moving map 29km Al From System Config menu 13 Map Overlays you can activate FLARM on Map Traffic in range will be visible on the moving map PETTTS Corna Marcia o c TL Avg GS 139 Alt 1850 E E LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL 2x Aircraft ID should be configured a manually m 0 0 The 3 9 in this screenshot is the average climb rate of that glider c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 42 Traffic on Info Page From Menu Info 2 2 you can select Flarm Traffic to display informations about other gliders m m pna PED tarm a gt l Traffic as seen on ground before IAK Okh 0 0ms 202mH 0 0km 220 takeoff D42 Okh 0 5ms 203mH 0 0km 200 Our glider is not listed of course Click on one item on the list and then Edit CN to set its name and save it to the FLARMID TXT file inside Configuration Close Track Edit CN FLARM support is still work in progress LK8000 1 20 does not have yet the new traffic pages They are expected to be available in version 1 22 by april may 2010 At that time the menu button for traffic
10. However a better approach is to use MENU ocreen Modes Set Map Here you can quickly toggle between North Up and Track Up with North while circling At the same time you can reposition the aircraft on the screen to better suit your navigation The Center Default button will reset aircraft to the position configured inside System menu 11 Appearance i EL E a Way Dis Keg E cH 230 229 c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 15 Screen View PAN mode selecting PAN from Screen Views buttons will bring you to the PAN menu During PAN mode the moving map is not automatically updating Only the aircraft is moving on it The map is placed in NORTH UP orientation You can drag with your finger on it to move the map to a particular location There are NO overlays in pan mode You exit PAN mode clicking on Pan Off button Nearest Waypoint will pop up waypoint s details of anything closer to the center cross It is ideal to select a waypoint near a location you have been dragging to Full Screen will leave you with a plain moving map with no overlay and buttons still draggable To exit full screen pan mode click on aircraft icon and access Screen View pan off button SIM mode only change position of the aircraft on the moving map For simulation only in order to quickly change position of the glider without having to set a new home and restart LK do the following e Enter PAN mode ee Move around a
11. even if affected by 1 2 seconds delay is better than an analog magnetic compass Bottom line do not enter clouds unless you have a real gyroscopic equipment LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 27 Screen Mode Nearest The nearest pages are calculated in real time and updated on screen every 5 seconds It is intentionally done like that to let you read values with calm The first Nearest page is for Airports that you have configured inside waypoint files either oeeYou or Winpilot There are basically two kinds of landing places for LK airports airfields and outlandings Nearest Page 2 1 Airports 2 1 APTS 1 3 VALBREMBO 15 3 127 347 779 180 157 LINATE 2 145 TL Avg GS Alt Dis QE 41 9 132 2863 33 7 13 6 By default each page is sorted by Distance but you can change it by clicking on Dir rEff Arriv or onto APTS to get alphabetic sorting See the turnpoint page later on for an example APTS 1 3 is telling you that there are 3 pages of Airports to view and you are looking at page 1 Light red letters are telling you that the waypoint is not reachable either for obstacles or for glide range We can not make these values RED because RED on black is not visible under direct sun light wearing sunglasses So we are using light red better than nothing To select a waypoint move use up down and enter To change to page 2 8 or backward use gestures The following p
12. 3 will be created inside _Configuration Remember again that in any case on exit all settings will also be saved to DEFAULT PROFILE There are 3 profiles available for loading and saving from within LK8000 CONFIG 3 3 Profiles However if you exit LK8000 and enter the _Configuration directory you will be able to copy rename delete these profiles and name them with more reasonable names such as DG300 prf CONDOR prf etc You can have as many profiles as you want On startup you will be asked to choose among them Loading a profile from startup is the safest choice however you can also load a profile from CONFIG 3 3 Profiles with some limitations you should be aware of LOADING A PROFILE FROM CONFIG 3 3 Profiles menu does NOT grant you that all values are correctly shown inside Config System menu If the current and new configuration differs in minor simple things then there will be no problems Here the problem is that the profile you are loading is loaded OVER the old configuration currently in memory lt does NOT reset values that are not saved inside new profile over old ones Bottom line whenever possible load your profiles only from startup e Profiles menu in config 3 3 is NOT accessible during flight e tis not advisable to change modify edit profiles with a text editor menu If you are changing settings inside ENGINEERING menu which is never a good Remember that while saving a profile you are also savi
13. Arrival Altitude Over 199 and below 1 no value is shown This is a pure geometric calculation equal to Garmin Naviter and most common other instruments NxtArr Next Alt Arrival Arrival Altitude at the next waypoint altitude calculated for current MacCready It does not use Safety MC and does not use safety altitude unless it is a landing point unless configured to do so AP AAA Average Aver The distance made in the configured period of time divided by the altitude lost since then Negative values are shown as OO infin and indicate climbing cruise heigth gain Over 200 this value is shown as OO too You can configure the period of averaging in the System Config menu Suggested values for this configuration are 60 90 120 Lower values will be closed to Instant Efficiency and higher values will be closed to Cruise efficiency efficiency from the last thermal Notice that the distance is NOT the straight line between your old an new position it is exactly the distance you have made even in a zigzag glide This value is not calculated while circling Eq n eee LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 90 Req Efficiency ADDENDUM Version 1 20b released March 18th 2010 Zoom Out Clicking on the upper left corner on the moving map screen will result in a zoom out action for 20 seconds After this time zoom will be back to previous scale This was previously available only for paragliders Zoom o
14. During load and save operation it will be normal to have rounding errors in this range Changing Waypoint files and Home Waypoint Home waypoint is remembered as a waypoint in a fixed numbered position If you change waypoint FILES then Home may be lost unless e You are loading a Winpilot file with H field set in flags Example 2521 50 04 17N 018 37 42E 285M ATH Rybnik This is my airport with H for home set e You are loading a SeeYou file with LKHOME codename field set Example Valbrembo LKHOME IT 4543 403N 00935 710E 229 0m 5 20 680 0m 122 600 e You are loading WAYNOTES TXT and you have configured HOME there You can find WAYNOTES TXT inside the Waypoints subfolder it is simple text readable with instructions at the beginning e You are loading new files and previously you had an home which is also available inside one of those files This last feature generally is often accomplished so you should not lose home airport anymore starting from version 1 20 of LK8000 If you have set HOME in several waypoints the last one read from the last waypoint file will be used If you are using WAYNOTES as well its home will preveal LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 46 TAKEOFF Virtual waypoint and Home waypoint While on ground a virtual TAKEOFF waypoint is generated in the waypoint list This waypoint is updated in position and altitude until not moving over takeoff speed TAKEOFF is consid
15. High Decluttering will consider your altitude your glide ratio the number of airfields around the arrival altitude over them to decide what to paint If you happen to be very high on ground such as in this example IntelliMap will not paint values almost at all In this example only the Home airport is shown since that s considered special being the place you want to come back to If you get lower on terrain values will gradually be back visible Sometimes IntelliMap will choose to let you see on the map a particular place far away to let you know you can make it over there and five minutes later will let you notice another place which is becoming almost unreachable In other words if there is nothing really important to be shown on map IntelliMap will try to find for you more interesting things than obvious places concerning landables Beyond colors and numbers A landing icon or symbol can be green or red orange showing the arrival altitude or the requested efficiency Colors and numbers are both important You may have a positive arrival altitude but an orange icon because of terrain obstacles or because the glide ratio at the same time is telling to the LK8000 that something is not good and it is better to be cautious You must understand that estimations are just guesses and that you are supposed to interpret colors and values and then take a decision You must and we repeat it again you must perfectly know how the
16. a Safe LD we choose HOME If no home we look for a Safe LD Preferred see later for Preferred If no home and no preferred we choose the best SafeLD Airport available If no airport either with a safeLD then we look for a good outlanding with SafeLD of course If nothing with a SafeLD was found then we get the best Reachable suggested at point 4 If still no luck we shall use a Reachable without the OverSafety those 100m extra arrival margin LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 65 g And finally if everything so far has failed and we don t even have anything close to be selected even if unreachable then we keep the old BestAlternate But it will show since not reachable at all That s all for the selection criteria Now how do you set a preferred Go inside the _Waypoints subfolder in the LK8000 directory and edit the WAYNOTES TXT file Think in advance You have been sinking for the last minutes and probably lost too much altitude There was a gateway to the bestalternate until 2 minutes ago but now it seems too late to turn back for it The situation does not look that critical though Until this message appears on the screen BestAlternate WARNING NO LANDINGS in L 8 gt E B 1 n Ta z m Q4 P as a Locarno lt lt lt Atn1 E 1443 520 Now you know that straight flight won t get you anymore to that outlanding and you may be in troubles Think
17. air speed and assume heading by ground course That s it Paragliders and delta pilots may also need a bottle of Wild Turkey It is important that wind calculation does not require any action by the pilot before requesting for the result LK8000 is always looking at what you are doing and ready to compute the wind on demand remembering your last minute of flight second by second TrueWind has proven to be very accurate both in simulations and in real flights It is tolerant to inaccurate piloting and even in turbulence can calculate valuable information Results during a real test flight with turbulence were matching the wind calculated by a Zander with digital compass with only minor differences Wiz O27kmh 237 Hil 2644n MSL At the same time since TrueWind was calculated after having E cn ra just left a thermal the circling calculated wind was practically L m I 1 LE E ntical to TrueWind RLBST 048 9 263 Duo UNG 1 01 18 0 221 Later analysis on Naviter s SeeYou PC has shown matching es eee results It does work However you should carefully read the following pages in order to understand how to configure and use TrueWind for best possible results LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 71 TrueWind Configuration Configuration is done once for all inside Config System menu 5 Glide computer ud TrueWind IAS 100 kh i TrueWind period 10 s
18. altitude in LK8000 anytime you can enter MENU CONFIG BASIC SETTINGS where you can change both altitude and pressure value whatever you prefer Remember that the Leo will stop sending out telemetry values when you enter the config MENU Brauniger Flytec Compeo 5030 LK8000 can parse Compeo s NMEA sentences GPRMZ and VMVABD The latter provides Baro altitude vario airspeed and temperature Airspeed is assumed to be IAS indicated Compeo does not specify in NMEA which air speed it is sending unfortunately AIRSPEED IS ASSUMED TO BE THE IAS NOT THE TAS IF TAS IS BEING SENT IAS AND TAS ARE WRONG LK8000 IS EXPECTING IAS INDICATED AIR SPEED FROM THE FLYTEC Baro altitude can be adjusted for QNH as all instruments with LK8000 from Menu config Basic Settings Flymaster F1 LK8000 fully supports the Flymaster F1 device including battery informations external battery 1 and 2 voltage and battery bank in use LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 30 FLARM Flarm is automatically detected and the barometric altitude will be automatically available Device type should be set to Generic and Use barometric altitude should be set ON e Ifthe connection is at 19200bps or higher speed Flarm will also send traffic informations e If the connection is at 4800 or 9600bps Flarm will NOT be sending out traffic infos LK8000 has a special menu for flarm which is accessible from Menu Config 3 3 This
19. and you know that you need to climb In this screenshot we are 50km away from an airport 1829 QNH 40 LD request to get there With a DG300 77m are missing for a glide with no obstacles Eu The Alps are blocking the glide A a Bo PP AAA Since we are not in glide range AN A TU Fo X aw nothing special on the en i Req E Om 1829 50 4 40 2 If a destination IS WITHIN GLIDE RANGE and one or more obstacles are detected arrival altitude is painted RED as well as required glide ratio in map overlays Ma Now at 1929m QNH we are 1 theoretically within glide range with 23m altitude arrival However mountains are a big obstacle LD and Arrival altitude are painted RED to give a warning that in spite of the positive values there are problems to proceed The bearing line has two red crosses First red cross is marking the very first obstacle we shall meet 44 meters are missing to pass the obstacle That 44 number is telling us that it is probably a steep mountain otherwise it could be a lower number or no number at all only a cross Alt Dis Req E Dn 1929 50 4 37 2 The second number is telling us that in order to make it to the destination we need about 1250m That s a lot for a 50km glide but the mountains are pretty high there We are assuming a MCO to the obstacle since we have set MC 0 0 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 62 Now at 3129m QNH we know that
20. at the same time attempt to change overlays again There are a lot of possible combinations for all kind of light conditions and it is very easy to change them and experiment also during the flight LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 52 The Snail Trail While you are flying a snail trail will display on the moving map your trace Below 3km zoom this trace is colored otherwise it is painted blue for better visibility Colors are showing lifts and sinks in the air e For Gliders netto vario either real or estimated is used for calculating lifts and sinks e For paragliders and delta the vario either real or calculated is otherwise used Green yellow and red are showing positive air mass Blue violet and black are showing sinks On a ridge it is thus easy to spot good points for turning GS 124 2039 _ ll With an higher zoom level colors 1 would simply melt on the little moving map screen so they are not used A blue line will be visible much better NAVA RERAN 1 cS Al Dis Req E 131 1846 T ds LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 53 As soon as you enter a thermal display is switched to thermal mode with a different zoom level and colors are shown 10 43 56 M 0 0 During thermalling even if you zoom out a lot pu colors are always painted 1 0 3 kh ea KIT ILE IMPOR E RIA C Gain TC 3
21. case you have pressed N E S W Wrong wind readouts The principle cause does not depend on the pilot precision because TrueWind will average values and correct and smooth errors Instead the main problem could be the calibration of your airspeed indicator and especially that of your analog compass We can t do miracles in this case TrueWind with an Air Speed Indicator connected If you are lucky to have IAS TAS being sent to LK8000 such as with Zander Cambridge LX Digifly Compeo etc then TrueWind will automatically use this IAS You don t need to configure the TrueWind IAS in config system menu 5 Just head correctly and keep a constant indicated air speed whatever you like But keep it constant LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda TI TrueWind and Condor Simulator LK8000 since version 1 20 has automatic wind setting constantly updating internally the wind that Condor is sending through NMEA Thus you will always get correct wind in real time No need to use TrueWind The TrueWind calculation is nevertheless available Assuming you are doing tests on Condor to use TrueWind you will need to keep speed and heading as usual just like if you had no IAS available LK8000 knows that you are using Condor and if you are asking for TrueWind it will let you have it as in a real glider with no cheating You don t need to change device name TrueWind with a Delta or a Paraglider Normally on a Delta or Para yo
22. daily usage or to previous flights The basic idea is that you should have available this information simply because you have already selected it for some reason There are currently two common pages the COMMON itself and the HISTORY page Commons Page 3 1 Commons E 1 COMN 1 1 TL Avg GS 1 9 134 Page 3 1 is very practical You will find here Home waypoint BestAlternate waypoint Alternate 1 waypoint Alternate 2 waypoint Task waypoints starting from the current destination 0O A U N During flight all the important waypoints are listed here You can keep under your eyes all numbers at once Landables home task Waypoints here cannot be sorted Of course if it happens that your home waypoint is also the bestalternate it will be painted only once The same for tasks points You are assured that all of them are listed nevertheless LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 32 Commons Page 3 2 History 13 2 HIST 1 1 BLELLO TL Avg G5 1 9 135 Just like in many GPS units such as the Garmin s every time you are doing a Go To a waypoint this waypoint is saved by LK inside an history list This list is then saved to disk and it will survive software restart The history waypoints are listed in inverted chronological order the latest inserted is the first to be shown When you insert a waypoint already in this list it is moved to the first position You cannot
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24. in advance Do not let this message ever appear on your screen The BestAlternate function is not available for Paragliders Delta even if they configured landable waypoints LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 66 Takeoff and Landing detection Since some functions are only available while the aircraft is on ground for example the auto QFE reset access to Profiles configuration of FLARM etc it is important to understand how the takeoff is detected and how the landing is detected Moreover the internal logger will automatically start logging if configured to do so at takeoff and stop logging after landing For gliders e Takeoff is detected when above 40 km h for at least 10 seconds e Landing is detected when below 40 Km h for at least 60 seconds at less than 300m AGL For paragliders e Takeoff is detected when above 5 km h for at least 10 seconds e Landing is detected when below 5 Km h for at least 10 minutes e Landing is forced when Logger is stopped while speed is below 5kmh LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 67 Battery Manager v1 On PNA PDA version not on PC version battery is constantly checked automatically and warnings are given about its status e f you plug unplug the external power supply a message is given on screen immediately Following messages are given only once and at least after 5 minutes have passed since the last warning if Battery status ch
25. incorrect QNH reading an incorrect waypoint list etc For each landing point LK8000 calculates the estimated altitude arrival taking into account e your current altitude e the landing point altitude SAFETY Arrival Height configured in system menu 6 Safety Factors e your glider Polar bugs and ballast e a glide at MacCready set to SafetyMC configured in system menu 6 Safety Factors otherwise at MC O It is suggested to set 0 5 as a safety factor there current wind e terrain obstacles Even if we already use a SAFETY arrival height and a safety glide at an higher MC we still can t accept an arrival 1m over safety That is 2m away from being unreachable So we higher this value to 100m So we select only those landing points that have an Arrival Height 100m over Safety altitude This is an additional safety margin called OverSafety We sort this list from the best the highest arrival altitude available to the worst ALL of them passing point 1 2 and 3 All of them are good and all of them are considered Reachables For each reachable landing point in this list we calculate the required LD wind was taken into account at point 2 remember We filter out all reachable points that have an LD over bestLD 30 Example for a glider that has best LD 40 this safety margin is 28 We call this margin SafeLD We now choose the BestAlternate from this list Q0 Tp gt 0 If Home Waypoint is in this list with
26. map can be shown in three kinds of views Screen Views in menu e Moving map with overlay the one above e Moving map in Pan Mode e Moving map with Infoboxes LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 12 Moving map touchscreen While the moving map is active the following touchscreen clicks apply Zooming in and out is accomplished by medium clicks on top and lower part of map area medium click MAP ZOOM IN Clicking on the center for a long long click 2 INVERT SCREEN DLL screen colors This is useful during flight when light conditions require an higher contrast medium click MAP ZOOM OUT All LK8000 inform ation is inverted to give you the best contrast on all Fe sag as em pages not only the PREVIOUS See Gen E moving map NAVBOXES ade P ES ENE MNT NAVBOXES Bottom Bar touchscreen You can change to previous and next navboxes with a short click on those areas The center area of the BottomBar gives you two choices e with a short click you change screen mode e with a medium click you call menu The aircraft icon on the right gives you two main functions e short click to call menu e medium click to switch to InfoBox mode On some screen sizes mainly 3 5 inches and below it may be difficult to select the aircraft icon because of the narrow display In this case the center bottom bar medium click will also work It is a redundant approach to call the important menu selectio
27. menu is available clickable only when a Flarm is actually detected some of these functions and submenus are available only when on ground and not during flight e REBOOT will cause immediate reset of Flarm It will restart automatically e NORMAL NMEA wil force Flarm to use normal settings for NMEA data including traffic informations if port speed is not below 19200bps Baud Rate menu If you see this menu then you are already connected to the Flarm unit You can choose a different communication speed 38400 is suggested for traffic informations After selecting the port speed Flarm will start using that speed immediately and thus the LK8000 will give a warning about lost GPS connection Go inside system config menu and change baud rate accordingly LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 40 Leds and Sounds M En From this menu you can control Flarm s lights and sounds Only Stealth ON and OFF are available inside this menu Other functionalities are reserved and or inhibited since they require non official third parties Flarm firmware Stealth mode will drastically reduce data broadcasting of your telemetry and at the same time will drastically reduce the number of informations you will be receiving from other aircrafts around LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 4 Radio Range s Kino Ex onio ial larcia e Valbrembo 59m mi O il A
28. out of course LK8000 is receiving from Leo GPS position GPS altitude Barometric altitude Vario and battery information Optionally if your Leo is equipped with external sensors IAS and Netto Vario are received LK8000 does NOT use Leo s values for wind calculation and ground efficiency since it has its own calculations You will thus be able to read wind values both from Leo and LK8000 each one calculating it independently The same for GR glide ratio Battery information is available in infobox External Battery 1 and 2 e EXT BATT 1 will report voltage on the main lithium battery e EXT BATT 2 will report voltage on the backup AA battery Baro Altitude is received from Leo and compared to corresponding QNH We are using Altimeter n 1 If you did not change QNH on the Leo i e you did not adjust the altimeter n 1 to the correct altitude then LK8000 will look at your GPS location and guess an average altitude The Baro altitude is then set accordingly If you have no GPS signal or you have no terrain configured in LK8000 then it is not possible to guess an average altitude for your location and QNH will not be set automatically Once QNH is changed for the first time either because you adjusted altitude in altimeter 1 or because in the meantime GPS signal was acquired and terrain altitude was used then it will NO LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 38 MORE be changed automatically To adjust baro
29. suggest that you add this additional parameter to the default WinPilot polar file Wing area is in square meters Before explaining the format of a polar line be sure to understand the following a polar defines the sink rate of a glider at 3 different speeds in order to provide later an interpolation for your current speed and determine the estimated sink rate Whoever made the polar has determined these values using a glider with a certain weight this weight was normally without ballast and includes also the pilot s weight It is easy to understand you jump on your glider and you fly away measuring sink rates The weight matters a lot It is also called Dry All Up Weight Dry AUW so you should not change the weight field unless you are actually creating from scratch your polar measuring also sink rates You can change the real gross weight of your glider you glider parachute whatever ballast apart simply changing in Basic Settings the wing loading In that case the polar is shifted correctly and these sink rates are still valuable If you don t understand what we are talking about then use a predefined polar and do not change anything inside Basic Settings but probably you should ask a mate for some help about these things as welll LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 81 Winpilot Polar file example All lines starting with a are comments of course e Field 1 Gross weight of the glider exclu
30. the Alternate symbols which are visible in these pictures A landable waypoint is painted with or wihout a box around together with a value This value can be an Arrival Altitude or the Requested Efficiency at your choice You can choose it inside Waypoints Text Ere white Appearance menu as well in Landables Value Hide units OFF Style Boxed Value Arrival Altitude e eo Style Unboxed tos IGS A Value Arrival Altitude X Text Style Values white c Style Unboxed p 1 152m Value Arrival Altitude Text Style All Black T Style Boxed Brivio 7 Value Efficiency LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 58 Declutter Landables Disabled With no decluttering all landables fields are painted with their values D iK In this example with plenty of spare heigth we have a lot of landables that are visible The problem is that outlandings are painted together with airports even if our arrival altitudes on airports is positive everywhere So why painting also outlanding s values E e m ra IO TOS m sd y AN TETTE Prescot y TEE Set decluttering Low and no outlanding will be painted closed to airports if it is obvious that you have plenty of margins to get onto a real airfield a pa as La LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 59 Declutter Landables High HGPS HBAR QFE AILAGL 2829 400 1250 92
31. 0 C Avg Th All SeClimb 6 0 3m 0 1 0 2 1 The snailtrail can be customized in width and length inside System Config menu 3 During the flight you can dynamically change the trail size using the Trail button inside menu DISPLAY 3 3 Short Long Full and Off are available in sequence The Full option will not display the whole flight only the last hour or so LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 54 Estimated IAS NettoVario and Speed To Fly explained Most of us do not have a IAS sensor connected to the LK8000 nor accelerometers We simply have a ground speed and hopefully a barometric altitude Nevertheless LK8000 will try to estimate the indicated air speed you are reading on the analog airspeed indicator To do so ground speed is corrected for the wind and then it is compensated for the air density at your current altitude NettoVario is assuming that you have such an IAS while looking at your glider s sink rate This sink rate is then added to the current vario value If you are sinking at 1 4m s at 100kmh on a DG300 for example the netto will be 1 4m s 0 6m s 0 8m s No TE Total Energy is estimated so if you pull up or push down the estimated Netto will be more wrong Normally you don t have a vario available as well So we calculate this value using the altitude difference during time If you have no barometric altitude GPS altitude will be used The latter is not that
32. 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 2 This manual is incomplete am sorry not to be able to provide a complete and detailed manual for version 1 20 have been trying to describe the most important differences between XCSoar and LK8000 and they have required a long work Writing the documentation is a work in progress since also the source code is changing but it will get better soon Please go to the www postfrontal com forum with any questions and for support from other users No Warranty THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Maintain effective lookout of your aircraft LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 3 Supported devices LK8000 can run on many devices sharing the Windows CE operating system It won t run on Android phones on Linux embedded devices or any non CE system Namely it doesn t run on Garmin navigators TomTom etc because they use a custom operating system It does run on CE 4 2 CE 5 0 and some 6 0 devices Generally it is supposed to work fine on any CE de
33. 4 Fallback mechanism Whenever for some seconds no GPS fix is available from PORT 1 the GPS fix available from PORT 2 will be used This is called FALLBACK Of course if no valid fix is available from PORT 2 either then there is no fallback When Fallback happens a message is given on screen for a couple of seconds You don t need to perform any action fallback is an automatic operation HGPS HBAR 269 254 If after a fallback the primary NMEA source port becomes again available it will be used automatically Automatic and Manual Comm Port Restart If no GPS fix is available on either port then every 30 seconds LK will close and restart communications This has no effect on the logger and on any calculation except that of course during restart no data is received no data is processed and no data is recorded Attention please if a valid gps fix is found NO AUTOMATIC reset is performed If you are using external equipment that needs a port reset such as a Bluetooth device then you should perform a general Comm Port reset manually using CONFIG 3 3 button Reset Comms In this case ALL comm ports will be reset LER BLE BY TE E Reset and restart COM Ports Back mir aj A port reset usually takes 2 or 3 seconds not more LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 35 Baro Altitude and Air Sensors If one external device providing baro altitude or any other special air sensor such a
34. File name Off Autologger On LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 87 21 Waypoint Edit 22 System Use GPS time On Autoback Light On Auto SoundVolume On 23 Paragliders Delta Specials Circ zoom Value Standard Cruize zoom 4 Courtesy of Sergio Silva LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 88 Infobox Values The following is a list of new infoboxes available only in LK8000 and those that have changed from XCSoar 5 2 4 When you select an infobox from System Config menu 16 17 18 19 there s an Help button for each one with a complete description Code Name Description gt A MI AE IAS orelAS Airspeed IAS Indicated Airspeed reported by a supported external intelligent vario If no sensor is available it is estimated using current wind and air density at current altitude In this case it is entitled elAS NENNEN A AAA eee eee TAS or eTAS Airspeed TAS True Airspeed reported by a supported external intelligent vario If no sensor is available it is estimated using current wind and air density at current altitude In this case it is entitled eTAS A ee ee aAGL Altern AGL Altitude above ground level with units inverted if you are using meters than it will be in feet if you are using feet than it will be in meters A A AAA Altern QNH QNH altitude with units inverted if you are using meters than it will be in feet If you are using feet than it will be in m
35. North circling Auto zoom OFF Trail drift OFF Trail width 16 Circling Declutter waypoints Declutter landings So let s look at some examples for Decluttering waypoints We have many waypoints available since we mapped all of our mountain tops Now decluttering gives this result LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 56 Declutter waypoints Disabled With no decluttering the map is just unreadable You should never disable decluttering if you have many waypoints Alt 229 Declutter waypoints Low Waypoint labels are painted only if not overwriting another label and leaving enough space to make them both readable Zooming in as in the second picture at 5Km will result in displaying more details Alt Declutter waypoints High High decluttering will check that labels are separated by even more space and thus some of them are not painted at all You will need to zoom in further in order to view more details TLAvg GS LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 57 Landables and decluttering Landables symbols are always painted on the map with no exceptions Outlandings and Airfields Airports have slightly different symbols but they are always painted with the same color orange for unreachable waypoint green for reachable waypoint You can change the landable s symbols inside System Config menu 11 Appearance By default LK is using
36. S explanation LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 44 Waypoint Names Task Waypoints History Waypoints A unique waypoint is identified by having at the same time unique e name e coordinates e type airport outlanding turnpoint Several waypoints can co exist having the same name but different attributes as long as they have different coordinates or type If two waypoints differ only for altitude or other minor details then the already existing one will be used and the latter will be discarded Loading a task file will also load embedded waypoints for the task adding them to the internal list LK8000 is comparing these waypoints inside the already existing waypoints loaded from files If a waypoint is already existing with the same name and attributes it will be used in place of that inside task file Normally from the user point of view there is no apparent difference However there is a small difference task waypoints even if modified will not be saved to file Task waypoints if not existing already will not be saved to history as well In other words task waypoints are considered temporary and part of a task file They won t survive a software restart unless of course you reload the same task But until software restart they will remain in memory and they will be selectable in waypoint lookup in nearest turnpoint pages in history in commons Even if they have the same name So be ca
37. Settings Wing Loading Wing loading is the result of glider weight divided by wing s surface While the wing area does not change the weight for this calculation can change a lot giving as a result different wing loadings When you select a glider or a WinPilot polar custom polar file you are actually telling LK e what was the weight in use during tests for the polar flight that gave following results e what is the maximum water ballast you can load e and what does the polar curve look like for that default weight In LK you can change the wing loading simply selecting a value in Basic Settings Once set the polar curve is shifted correctly You don t need to change the polar itself It is very wrong to change the polar weight value without recalculating also sink rates Be careful if you are using a WinPilot custom polar you don t have any wing area value in there So no calculation of wing loading is possible and thus in Basic Settings no Wing Loading will be selectable To fix this problem a new polar field is managed inside WinPilot polar file See the example which is also inside the Polar subdirectory LK8000 Polar file explanation You can create your own polar file which is based on WinPilot format LK has an optional additional field appended for Wing Area Without wing area you can t change wing loading in Basic Settings Since the wing area of your glider is an easy to find and a fixed parameter we strongly
38. above will be removed being obsoleted This is only a temporary workaround to let you have Traffic display LK8000 1 22 will offer two separated InfoPages for id Lo Traffic one for listing traffic like for Nearest turnpoints CM 2 and another one for shadowing The shadow ghost etc functionalities are partially already included inside 1 20 Do not be surprised if on the temporary Flarm Traffic page some gliders will appear with ghost written aside AR 3Kkm TR 18Em MA 143m You can run but you cannot hide LK8000 1 22 StarFighter Shadowing function ps E 5 Target 5u39 ET NT IL m Range 169 m Altitude 603 m TTI 2 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 43 Multiple waypoint s formats in LK8000 Inside config menu 1 you can choose up to TWO different waypoint files located inside Waypoints subfolder You normally load waypoint file n 1 with ordinary waypoints and waypoint file 2 with special turnpoints to use for contests or daily tasks However you can use both files with no restrictions There is no predetermined limit for the number of waypoints you can load it depends on how much memory you have available However it is not advisable to exceed 5000 waypoints if you are also using large maps and airspaces LK8000 can load different kinds of waypoint files also differently between file 1 and file 2 Map file ITALY xcm Expert Waypoints 1
39. accurate Vario this way is not only inaccurate but most importantly it is 1 to 2 seconds late because it is based on an altitude measured in the past seconds The estimated Netto Vario is thus good only for the snail trail and for minor internal calculations and you should not count on it for anything else The Speed To Fly reflects the Netto Vario problematics LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 55 IntelliMap Labels A common problem on moving map display is that the screen is covered with waypoint labels At low zoom level the map is plain unreadable being covered of symbols and names LK8000 has a new waypoint labelling approach called IntelliMap which will paint important labels first and avoid to paint unnecessary informations Moreover waypoints can be painted differently and on inverted colors Depending on the screen size and brightness and how far the device is positioned from the pilot it is possible to choose the best combination of parameters to let informations be always visible First of all ordinary turnpoints are displayed up to 13km zoom and landable waypoints are displayed up to 23km zoom Over this zoom level no waypoints are painted at all IntelliMap can be partially enabled or totally disabled depending on two configuration options inside system config menu 3 Map Display It works independently on turnpoints and landables Labels Names Trail length Shot Orientation
40. age is explaining how to do this The up down enter approach is turbulence proof and once you will understand how easy it works you will love it Unfortunately it is not available in waypoint lookup selection yet LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 28 Touchscreen Gestures for Nearest Pages 1PRESS Go to the next sub page in the current page 3 RELEASE short click CHANGE MODE medium click MENU xjl move up one line medium click to confirm selection move down one line short click CHANGE MODE medium click MENU LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 29 Nearest Page 2 2 Landables Dir PASTURO E VALBREMBO 5 117 BRIVIO 7 8 1559 GORLE 20 889 LAPONCIA Ze 169 CORTENOVA 22 1 104 ORIO 3 979 CLUSONE 27 26 12 ROVETTA 30 25 13 6 1447 TL Awg GS Alt Dis Keq E 41 9 128 2850 34 2 13 9 e Landables are showing both Airports and Outlanding points e Outlanding are written in ITALIC and painted light yellow as well e They are light red if unreachable no matter if airports or outlandings LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Nearest Page 2 3 Turnpoints 0 Turnpoints are not airports or outlandings Dist MN A nice feature is that sorting turnpoints as SORNADELL 19 t 7 190 landables of course by Direction will let you BLELLO 1 1519 know instantly what s in fro
41. anged from discharging to charging Battery is 10096 charged Battery discharge is at 3096 Battery discharge is at 2096 Battery discharge is at 1096 warnings are repeated every 2 minutes Battery discharge is at 5 warnings are repeated every minute with additional CROAK sound there are no frogs aboard it s your LK Battery manager is NOT operative in the first 30 seconds after startup This is needed to let the internal battery settle its charge Thus if you plug unplug power supply during this initial period of time no messages will appear The Battery is charging message is given only if the battery is REALLY recharging If you have plugged power supply but the battery does not charge there are either problems with power supply example HP314 not receiving enough current or with the battery itself which could be exhausted These messages are related to the internal PDA or PNA battery not to external devices You may look at external device s battery status through xBatt1 and xBatt2 information LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 68 Save and Load Profiles LK8000 at startup is looking inside _Configuration subdirectory fora DEFAULT PROFILE prf file and other prf files If there are NO profiles then factory defaults are loaded LK8000 is reset to zero configuration This is a good approach if you want to reset configuration because something is not working remove all profiles from _ Configuratio
42. aolo Ventafridda 63 BestAlternate BestAlternate function is always active and it is constantly trying to guess the best landing option from your current position using waypoints in memory that are marked as landables and using the terrain data if available to calculate obstacles The bestlanding option is NOT necessarily the closest It is normally the home airfield to begin Or another airport where we can be towed or winched An outlanding is never preferred to an airfield All of this considering glide ratio wind obstacles and very important with large safety margins Expecially if you are flying in the mountains the BestAlternate will constantly keep en eye around for you suggesting in advance a gateway to a safe landing A new search is made every minute 60 seconds On PC version every 10 seconds During those 60 seconds the information displayed inside infopages and bottombar is updated in real time with the current required glide ratio and arrival altitude to the destination just like an Alternate When the BestAlternate has changed a bell is played and a message appears on the screen In other words the selection of BestAlternate is made every minute but the values concerning the current best are updated in real time E lovellasca 524m BestAlternate rem wem HGPS HBAR QFE ARAGL FL JHGPS HBAR ARAGL FL 1329 1100 973 43 SEND IEEE EZ Unless you have disabled all sounds in LK or hav
43. ar indicat or Fini Finish or only part of it may be painted in order to not A Variometer Bar Vari Vario rainbow clutter the screen too much Thermal E Bar ON Track Line ON FLARM on map ON Fixed You have full control on these overlays and they can be enabled and disabled any time Let s start with an empty map with all overlays off You only notice the purple airspace areas and the destination to waypoint has a black bearing line Wind is displayed if available in the bottom left here it is indicated as Eu pi Dis Reg E n 12 9 MacCready Value Enabled 0 0 Vario enabled Rainbow painted with no values in the picture and thus no colors Track line ON The track line works only in trackup mode not in North up It is showing the heading direction of your aircraft as a thin black link In the picture it is pointing to N Alt Dis 229 12 9 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 48 Added Glide Bar Indicator the red bar on the left Orio BKT Dis ReqE 12 9 ux Screen Data Half Overlay Adding destination waypoint name and distance on top left bearing difference on top center Requested Glide Ratio and Arrival altitude on the right under MC 0 0 Paragliders Delta MC Average Efficiency Arrival Altitude Dis 12 9 Screen Data Full Overlay Adding a clock and three values on the left 4 oo means infin
44. ble combinations Infopage 1 1 CRUISE 11 1 Cruise Alzate 10 24 17 Dis To Reg E 1 1 means 31 4 84 20 2 This is the main navigation infopage Infopage 1 Subpage 1 CRUISE Mobile r F Cru 189 Destination waypoint name and local time is nh shown on the top 103 Th All ManME 1 0 0 0 TLAvg GS Dis Req E Values from top left to bottom right are 1 0 103 1943 31 4 20 2 Dis Distance to destination To Bearing different to destination Heq E Required efficiency to destination E Avg current averaged efficiency in the last minutes normally 2 but you can configure it NxtArr Arrival altitude at next waypoint i e the destination Brg _ Bearing to the destination E Cru Cruise efficiency average efficiency since you left your last thermal E 20 Last 20 seconds efficiency Alt your altitude Trk your ground track or Heading GS Ground speed FL flight level in hundreds of feet 63 means 6300 feet Wind direction and intensity TL Avg Last Thermal average lift Th All All thermal average lift or daily thermal average ManMC or AutMC is your current McCready value and its setting manual or automatic LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 22 Touchscreen Gestures for Info Pages As we said there are five info pages To change info page we use gestures Just like an IPHONE you change to next or previous by switching pages as in a book I
45. bles Style Boxed with units Landables value Arrival Altitude Inverse b w colors On Waypoints text style Values White Hide Units Off 12 Fonts 13 Map Overlays Screen Data Full Map Overlay MacGready Value Enabled Glide Terrain line Shade Glide Bar indicator Next Turnpoint Variometer Bar Vario Rainbow Thermal Bar Off Track Line Off FLARM on map Off LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 86 14 Task Auto Advance Auto Start Type Cylinder Start Radius 400m Sector Type Cylinder Sector Radius 400m Finish Type Cylinder Sector Radius 400m 15 Task Rules 16 Infobox cruise Speed Dolphin Home distance Next ETE Task Distance Task Alt Arrival Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage ON OUR WN E 17 Infobox circling Thermal Gain or Average thermal strength Home distance Next ETE Task distance Task Alt Arrival Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage CON QA UU BRWN e 18 Infobox Final Glide Speed Dolphin Home distance Next ETE Task Distance Task Alt Arrival Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage ON OU RWN E 19 Infobox Aux Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage Altitude QNH Speed ground Next Waypoint Wind Speed MacCready Setting 0 NOU AUN 20 Logger Time step cruise 1s Time step circling 1s Short
46. dda 72 Using TrueWind during flight Now while you are flying straight in order to get TrueWind you need to follow 3 simple steps ij CHANGE YOUR HEADING Change direction and looking at your analog compass keep heading to either 0 30 60 90 120 150 210 240 300 330 degrees A X i ali Dp fan NK These values are indicated on your aeronautical compass as N 3 6 E 12 15 S 21 24 W 30 33 In practice you have to keep a constant heading and you should choose the best value you can keep under control on your aeronautical analog magnetic compass Choose the direction which better suits your current route You will have to deviate direction of course but that s necessary only for a few seconds and max deviation will be 15 degrees as an average Be precise and follow your compass until you are heading to one of the principal directions Step 2 CHANGE YOUR SPEED Now that you are heading constantly stabilize your speed to the TrueWind IAS that you have chosen in the configuration When your speed is correct keep it and count up to 10 seconds depending on the period of time you have configured Don t worry if your speed is not exactly the chosen one because LK8000 will be calculating your average speed during this period of time Just do your best LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 73 3 PRESS BUTTONS AND GET THE WIND You are done You have been heading constantly t
47. ding ballast when the values were measured e Field 2 Max ballast you can load water It will add wing loading separately e Field 3 4 5 6 7 8 are couples of speed sink rate in km h and m s These values are used to create an interpolated curve of sink rates e Field 9 New and Optional Normally winpilot does not have this value Put here at all cost the glider wing surface area in square meters m2 If the polar curve you are using does not have this value go on wikipedia to find the wing area for that glider and add it after a comma Here is the polar for a glider that during test flight was weighting 330kg including pilot and everything that can load extra 90 liters of water ballast that at 75km h has a sink rate of 0 7 m s at 93 km h of 0 74 at 185 km h sinks at 3 1 m s and finally that has a wing surface of 10 6 m2 330 90 75 0 0 7 93 0 0 74 185 00 3 1 10 6 Thus the polar was calculated with a default wing loading of 31 1 kg m2 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 82 VisualGlide VisualGlide draws on the map screen some arcs each one representing a loss of height and a distance It is triggered by VisualGlide menu button inside Menu Display 1 The represented loss of height is in units of 100m or 300ft depending on the metrics you chose and itis calculated based on your current glide ratio This screenshot is showing a real usage of VG during flight you are about to leave terrain a
48. e disabled Warnings for the BestAlternate there are two sounds you should take care of announcing a message on screen e asoft bell sound announcing that the landing target has changed e a double alert croak sound announcing that you are under a safe glide for the closest known landing place or that there are no landing places around at all These sounds will play only if you are at least 250 meters over the safety altitude If you set for example 300m as Safety altitude over an airport then below 550m there will be NO sounds at all We assume that the pilot knows he is in trouble at that height or that he is simply landing or taking off LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 64 How does the BestAlternate think BestAlternate tries to be smart selecting the best choice just like you would do during the flight 1 LK8000 looks around getting a preliminary list of landing points within your gliders best LD minus the SAFETY altitude Example you are at 1300MH safetyaltitude is 300m your glider has best LD 40 search range is 1000m 40 40km The distance is approximate in this phase In any case this search is limited to 100KM Notice that if you are over 100km away from the nearest landing point you can t really expect a computer to be helpful in case of troubles You are the pilot BestAlternate is only a suggestion and it may fail drastically for many reasons such as an incorrect terrain data an
49. e your finger e L1 means long click on zone 1 which normally is around 2 seconds To test click on it say count 1 count 2 and then release your finger Paragliding Delta mode offers also an 8th and 9th zone which is in the upper right corner of the screen over the compass indicator That s for emergencies to report an accident location and it displays your current position both as Lat Lon and UTM coordinates for 1 minute The 9th zone is the upper left corner and will zoom out at 7km map scale for 20 seconds It is good for a quick outlook on the map for position reporting during XC flights While blind clicks on the BottomBar 4 5 6 7 are always working the same virtual keys 1 2 and 3 work differrently depending on the screen mode Screen Modes There are four screen modes in LK8000 Moving map Info pages Nearest pages Common pages LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 11 Screen mode Moving Map You are now in the main LK screen which is fully configurable See chapter Map Overlays for a detailed description of all fields and how you can select which information you want to be displayed The following picture is showing all overlays activated and the screen is cluttered with information It is only an example Some of this information is appearing only when a destination is selected a go to otherwise some of the information is not painted at all Alt D is 229 12 9 The moving
50. en TC 30 is lower than TC Avg You may set MC value to either Th All or TC Avg which will become TL Avg after leaving the thermal and starting back in cruise mode LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 24 Info Page 1 3 Task FE Task Alzate 10 23 47 Dis To Req E E Avg 31 4 90 20 2 00 MxtArr Brq E Cru E 20 786 256 33 160 TskArr TskDis TskCow TskRegE 818 31 4 20 2 IE unt TSKETE TskSp ManMC 818 16 12 0 0 TL Avg GS Alt Dis ReqE 1 0 96 1937 31 4 20 25 First 8 values are the same as in Cruise mode The next 8 values are different TskArr Arrival altitude to complete the whole task TskDis remaining distance to complete the task TskCov task distance covered so far TskRegE Requested efficiency to complete the task TskArrMCO Arrival altitude to complete the task at MC 0 TskETE Estimated Time Enroute to complete the task task time to go TskSp Achieved task speed LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Info Page 1 4 Custom i 4 Custom Alzate Req E Radial TeamCode T amDis 20 1 347 YN3G TeamBd QFE a lt Odom 17 27 6411 12 9 TC Gain TC 30 TC Avg Th All 471 0 0 1 3 SoC limo Wind Windy 85 139 2 TC Gain TC 30 TL Avg Th All YeClimb 471 40 0 41 3 41 4 85 63 Custom page is special because all of its values can be configured inside Setup System accessible from Config 2 3 These values re
51. ered a TURNPOINT and thus all calculations are made as for a Turnpoint MC safety altitude configured etc TAKEOFF is NOT considered a landing point It is a very good final destination for final glides to landing because the altitude will be automatically set to the real QNH and because no safety altitude may be used in turnpoints e Gliders if no Home waypoint has been assigned then TAKEOFF waypoint is elected as Home automatically e Paragliders Delta Home waypoint is automatically assigned to takeoff even if already existing Thus PGs should not assign an Home Waypoint since it is updated automatically TAKEOFF is never saved to history file and should not be used as a waypoint name To manually assign a HOME choose a waypoint and in its details pages go to the last one where you can find Set as Home If you are on simulator the position on map is instantly updated Just in case it happens if for any reason TAKEOFF is reset it will appear very far away from you Default position for a wrong takeoff location is at Santa Claus home at the North Pole LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 47 Moving Map Overlays In Config Menu 13 Map Overlays you can choose what to paint on the moving map Expert Scre ipe Full overlay MacCready value Enabled Additional information can be added depending Glide terra minis Line on your screen size and resolution all information Glide B
52. eters ee EA HBAR Altitude BARO This is the barometric altitude obtained from a GPS equipped with pressure sensor or a supported external intelligent vario If you have selected Use Baro Altitude in system config menu 5 then this altitude is also shown as QNH altitude and used internally for all calculations HGPS Altitude GPS This is the altitude reported from the GPS Depending on your GPS device it can be quite accurate or very wrong sometimes Expecially if you are using a car navigator gps the reported altitude can be very wrong during thermalling If you have no Baro Altitude available or you haven t selected it inside configu menu 5 then this GPS altitude is going to be used internally for all calculations QNH altitude can use either GPS or Baro altitude Normally you should use as main infobox the QNH altitude because it will always tell you what is being used internally QFE Altitude QFE Automatic QFE This altitude value is using GPS or Baro altitude and it is constantly reset to O on ground before taking off After takeoff it is no more reset automatically even if on ground Changing QFE does not affect QNH calculations QFE is not used for calculations it is only a reference for the pilot O O qq Alt Altitude QNH This is the heigth above mean sea level reported by the GPS or by the Baro sensor if pressure altitude is available and it selected to be used lt is the altitude used internally for a
53. flect as well the NavBoxes values So you only need to configure them once First 8 values are the Auxiliaries boxes and they are steady Next 8 values are dynamically shown depending on the flight status e During cruise mode they are the CRUISE boxes e During Thermalling they are the Thermal boxes e During final glide they are of course the final glide boxes You can change the flight status also manually from Menu Display 2 3 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 26 Info Page 1 5 Turn Rate Indicator 11 5 Turn Experimental 10 29 55 Bank Trk 439 p 69 elAS ES 101 a 4 tans Alt ER JETTA Varo 2 4 TC Gain TC 30 TL Avg Th All Climb 38 1 6 1 7 1 8 10 The TRI Turn Rate Indicator is reporting your banking status estimated acceleration and estimated airspeed It s all estimated if you don t have real accelerometers and real airspeed sensors The estimated Air Speed is calculated using the Ground Speed corrected for your altitude air density and for the estimated wind speed and direction in real time It should not be used for attempting any IFR flight However if you ever will be loosing visibility inside a cloud remember that looking at your analog magnetic compass will result in fake turning indications when heading east or west and accelerating or decelerating See the TrueWind explanation about this In this case believe that a turning rate indicator
54. for landables and optionally for all turnpoints depending on how you configured it in System config menu 6 e Landables use current MC only if it is greater than safetyMC this means that you have configured a faster speed otherwise SafetyMC Landables are thus always using at least safetyMC or more Landables do always use safety altitude e Tsk values and Turnpoints are all calculated with current MC and optionally safetyaltitude e Wind is used for all calculations e NO totaly energy aka speed compensation is used So you normally have some more margins if you are flying at a high speed However LK8000 considers total energy an extra safety margin deliberately No optimistic estimations If you are running a task it is better not to use an existing Landing point as a turnpoint because calculations will use safetyaltitude and values will be confused Create a dedicated turnpoint for it LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 61 Obstacles and Red Crosses on the moving map If you have configured Glide Terrain as either Line or Shade inside Config Menu 13 Map Overlays then obstacles are painted on the moving map Obstacle calculation works only during flight and not on ground In SIM mode it is working also on ground If a destination cannot be reached being out of current glide range there is no need to paint obstacles because you simply cannot glide that far Arrival altitude is negative
55. ion On some screen devices there is no space to display Arrival altitude of Alternate 2 as in the picture above PU t amp 2 SYS6 System info Sat A e Battery is showing percentage of internal battery left if this information is available from your hardware It is followed by the letter C when under CHARGE and D when DISCHARGING Example 89 C or 72 D e External Battery 1 if connected to an external device providing battery information this is the voltage of such device e Satellites in view by GPS Followed by A if using GPS on port 1 and B if using GPS data from port B See the FALLBACK mechanism later LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 21 Screen mode Info Pages Short clicking on the center of bottom bar will toggle between moving map infopages nearest pages and common pages Each of these modes has pages LK remembers which page you were looking at in each screen mode When you toggle screen modes you will be brought back to the page you had previously selected There are 5 Info Pages Each infopage has 16 values which are predefined You don t need to configure anything since they are predefined and always available even after a reset You are assured that during flight this information is always available and always at the same place and position Infopage 4 can be fully customized The BottomBar is always active and you can mix up infopages with navboxes with many possi
56. is like the FLY version but with no communication active with external gps It is perfect for testing the software indoor You can make the aircraft fly on the map by clicking and moving it in the desired direction and then releasing it To change altitude you need to enter IBOX mode click on the altitude Infobox and use the UP DOWN keys to increase or decrease the altitude LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 8 Using the LK8000 touchscreen LK s Turbulence Proof User Interface LK is primarily using touchscreen for all operations Hardware keys and joggers are supported as well but the whole human interface concept is based on touchscreen usage with no need for any external hardware buttons On most existing software the touchscreen interface is accomplished by creating soft buttons i e painted buttons to press LK still has these soft buttons but only for exception usage As a rule there are no soft buttons to press ooft buttons in fact require a precise user action on a restricted part of the screen While this is easy to accomplish on the ground with a stylus during flight it won t be so easy nor in many cases possible at all While you are flying your body is subjected to all kinds of accelerations and your hand will not be precise in clicking On 3 and 4 inch screen devices it becomes a real problem to click on a little squared area that you can hardly see under the direct sunlight while lyi
57. itum too gi mM a high to display and it is ise ae A the average glide ratio X Then we have the vario 0 0 ms And below ground speed a brembo Paragliders Delta Altitude Vario Ground Speed E Dis 229 12 9 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 49 needs Distance to Bearing difference to Track heading destination Destination wp name destination line Lost Bearing line pan Current b BUE Ei KO OF 37 4 IN E dam 9 pe 47 Bien JA average rn mid 2 efficiency m FF VI Vario i E i Oro ai Alt Dis JT a 229 12 9 ar Analog 1 variometer Glide Bar Wind indicator BottomBar Indicator or Navboxes The LK8000 moving map is fully configurable and you can customize it at best for your Compass showing current map orientation MacCready Requested Efficiency to destination Arrival Altitude to destination Map Scale BottomBar mode Aircraft icon menu papup LK8000 MAP OVERLAYS Release 1 20 March 2010 Note this picture reflects Glider mode Paragliders Delta will have slightly different values as described in the previous page LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 50 Map background color with no terrain From Menu Display 1 3 you can on the fly enable and disable labels only turnpoints landables are always painted topology and terrain When you disable terrain or you haven t configured one the ma
58. ll calculations GPS altitude and Baro altitude infoboxes are available too One of those two values is used for the QNH altitude Use THIS altitude as MAIN reference since this is the one being used by LK8000 AAA LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 89 Battery Battery On PDA and PNA systems this gives the percent battery capacity available If ending with a C it means that the battery is under charge if ending with a D it means that battery is discharging BEEN A ANN NO xBatt1 xBatt2 External device battery bank 1 and 2 voltages if available Batteries NENNEN A AA xBank External External device battery bank in use if available Battey Bank VENE AA AA FL Flight Level Altitude Flight Level indicator FL is expressed in hundreds of feet This indicator is using current altitude which is not necessarily barometric and in any case not necessarily calculated on the standard atmosphere In other words it is not accurate and can be very wrong even by some hundreds feet So use it as an approximated indicator CA AA AA Odom Odometer The distance made since takeoff calculated each second also while circling This value is reset to zero at takeoff and cannot be reset in any other way This value is calculated just like if you were driving a car on a flat surface T e The required glide ratio to reach the next waypoint given by the distance to next waypoint divided by the heigth required to arrive at the Safety
59. llow you to select airspaces of course ActiveMap can be permanently enabled inside System Config menu 10 Interface ActiveMap can also be temporarily enabled and disabled from Config menu 3 3 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 9 MTI a nse o dre E o alae ait ek ee eal emerges cea lees aes ordeal leave ate aan pea ete de 2 IE DE P COT c 2 Tonma S completed EE OA 3 NO WI a 3 DSUDDOELEG de VICES aida 4 Supported creen reso UNS ii A A aa 4 Landscape vs OLMO o ao aca 3 Install s SUD oe 7 SD CARD INSTA er icones tos divino yea detssn oue ao ui tosdive iii 7 DEVICE MEMORY INSTADE rte ditor tte agree a a outs 8 FO ET re E 8 PC TINS EAD ove ti eleaticatessacuueteudiaeesatees 8 DIY OE STI e ESO tt ee eee 8 Usine the LR S000 1006 WS Cree ia s bier ib 9 LI sTurbul ncesProor User Inte kJ 6 aue eet DE Sra uo End sita 9 Ind De eros versa emn aeter tione eem dde siam cde d dar ua due cu c ta a DeL 9 THe welcome SCHOEN siu sce toad bn ad nn panas a teu E detta eee es 10 Virtual Keysand Bde He kS iso Ga ase miii epo eas baci os eoa debit adeo Uo to Raise ti odis oct 11 IO a A oo 11 Screen mode Moving MaPyesiana ot 12 Movies map LOUCKS creian 13 Bottom BartoU CASE Nai SI Ads 13 A 14 Screen views IN MOVIN Mapas id 14 SETE VIEWS SCCM aP ai A mate voieewat ecko suisse iicaneni aiecentaads 15 Change position of the glider and screen orientation during flight
60. lutter landings Low 4 Terrain Terrain display Off Topology display On Empty mapcolor LCD Green 5 Glide Computer Auto Wind Circling TrueWind IAS 39kh TrueWind Period 8 s Auto Mc mode Both L D average period 15 Seconds Lift Center Circle at Center Block Speed to fly Off Auto Force Final Glide Off Nav by baro altitude On 6 Safety Factors Safety Alt Mode Landables and TurnPoints 7 Aircraft Category Paraglider Delta Type Para EN A DHV1 Para EN B DHV12 Para EN C DHV2 Para EN D DHV23 or Para Competition Delta USHPA 2 3 4 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 85 8 Devices Br uniger Compeo Flymaster F1 Digifly are supported by LK8000 Device A Name Flymaster F1 Compeo Digifly Device A is used for the external devices if you don t have external device use Generic for the internal GPS Port COM7 Baud 57600 Device B Name Generic use device B for the internal GPS if you don t have internal GPS put the same of Device A Port COM7 Baud 57600 Geoid Altitude On Serial Mode Normal or Polling if you have problems with Normal mode 9 Units Aircaft Wind Speed Metric Distance Metric Lift M S Altitude Meters Task Speed Metric 10 Interface Safety Lock Off Menu Timeout 16s Text input Style Keyboard Virtual Keys On Iphone Gestures Normal Map Locking On 11 Appearance Glider Position 50 Landables Icons Alternate Landa
61. mpting to adjust automatically QNH i e NOT after landing you haven t changed QNH yourself yet of course LK will not change your settings The first attempt requires a valid GPS fix LK will look at your position immediately and if you are close to your home airport lt 2km from your home airport waypoint position then your Home waypoint altitude will be used We are assuming here that you have set a very correct known altitude for home In this case the baro pressure will be set in order to match the home airport altitude This is the best possible guess LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 79 Otherwise LK will try to use the terrain approximated altitude at your position which normally requires further manual adjusting in Basic Settings because terrain is never exact being an average of an area QFE auto calibration QFE is using either GPS altitude or BARO altitude if selected QFE is reset automatically to 0 while on ground lt will NOT be reset to zero after landing LK is using a simple QFE approach because it is not considering any pressure It is basically an altitude offset which is fixed and related either to GPS or BARO altitude For this reason changing QNH while airborn will not change QFE accordingly QFE manual reset QFE can also be reset manually from CONFIG 3 3 menu button You will be asked for confirmation LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 80 Basic
62. n e Last Thermal Average value e Ground speed e Altitude in use either GPS or Baro if available e Distance to destination e Required efficiency to destination j oe ht J ALT2 Altitudes HGPS HBAR QFE AItAGL FL 2 29 O 8 y rH e Height GPS e Height Baro e QFE e Altitude Above Ground Level if terrain map is configured e Flight Level 7s Fa AS o E A hU STAS STAS statistics Th All Odomet FlyTm Home Radi 0 All thermals average or daily thermal average Odometer counting distance like in a car Fly Time how much time you have been airborne Distance Home Radial Home LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 20 TSK4 task information TskDis TskArr e Task Distance left e Task Arrival Altitude e ask Estimated Time Enroute the time left to complete the task e Task distance covered Start e Altitude of your task start good to remind you of the 1000m FAI rule aa fa S5 _ ATN5 Alternates Valbrem ce Atn1 E 105 Requested efficiency and Arrival Altitude for e BestAlternate e Alternate1 e Alternate2 BestAlternate has an explanation in a separate chapter in this manual Alternates can be chosen by selecting a waypoint and using the Set as Alternate1 or Set as Alternate2 buttons You can thus keep under your eyes two manually selected alternate destinations and one automatically selected best alternate destinat
63. n LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 13 Menu Button The first and most important button is the MENU which pops up green buttons on screen for multiple choices You call MENU with a short click on the aircraft icon in the bottom right part of screen Alternatively you call MENU with a medium gt 0 5s click on the center of bottom bar DETTTT The main Menu activated uS m LER eu KEA o pa 31 at 2 lav AC by Menu button After a few seconds of A WW J inactivity it automatically n al EU E po disappears i uo ERU y Inf l gt i a E 4 A ql WI 2 1 XN Clicking on Screen Views from main menu will pop up this submenu Zoom In and Out are changing map scale like with the shortcuts of virtual keys mentioned earlier Let s look at Set Map PAN mode and IBOX mode LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 14 Screen Views Set Map Change position of the glider and screen orientation during flight M E MAA brembo y E L Le Vecchia d Pa Dadaena DP Es A ug 4 Paderno L E i 7 CN Fi To elbrembpo Wap ir n m Paderno L y Orio 0X0 bb e E Bd Id i fere y Es 7 coffe L Avg GS Alt 230 229 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL A general screen orientation button is inside MENU DISPLAY 3 3 Map Orient and you will be able to choose among all choices that are also available inside System configuration
64. n after exiting LK8000 Then run LK8000 On exit LK8000 is saving current configuration in memory to the DEFAULT PROFILE prf all the times Even if you have loaded a different profile on startup the DEFAULT PROFILE on exit will ALWAYS remember what was the latest configuration in use with no exceptions If on startup only DEFAULT PROFILE prf is found and NO other profiles then it is the only choice and it is loaded without asking anything to you If on startup there are 2 or more profiles available then it will ask you to choose one Remember that no matter what you load on exit DEFAULT PROFILE is saved back with current choices Please understand the following a profile contains information about screen settings that are device specific You cannot copy a profile from a PDA to another PDA to PC to PNA or whatever else device because each profile belongs to the device it was generated for LK8000 can t know if you have copied a profile from another device and it will assume that what s inside is good all the way Screen will be probably unreadable It is never a good idea to exchange profiles between different devices When you want to save a particular setting to another profile in order to be able to load it back later go to MENU CONFIG 3 3 Profiles and choose PROFILE1 PROFILE2 or PROFILES LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 69 You will be asked to confirm and then a new PROFILE1 prf or 2 or
65. nd mountain to cross a large lake How do you know how far is the next possible thermal point How large is the lake What will the height loss be approximately if you keep flying as in the past minutes P The VisualGlide will let you know all of this information at a glance Ualcinate 1229mPg Braz inm In the picture we can immediately TL Avg GS is ieg read the distance to the top of the 118 1895 next mountain after crossing the lake it is after the third circle On the second circle we read 7km and on the 4th circle not visible much in this shot 14km So each arc in this picture represents 3 5km Now we know that the top of Mottarone mountain is about 12km away We also know that with the current glide ratio of 36 see the big number of the left of map we shall approximately lose something more than 300m of height If the glide ratio changes those arcs are changed as well with their values A minute later while we are on the downwind part of the mountain that we are leaving our glide ratio falls down to 26 With this glide ratio we would loose 400m height A to get to Mottarone which is now 10km far The glide ratio in use is the average one calculated on a selectable period of time 2 minutes by default GS 126 1822 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 83 VisualGlide limiters Minimum glide ratio accepted is 1 4 of your best LD and maxim
66. nd place the central screen AUZATE ah MERMA cross exactly where you want to be m v 0 o E Do not place exactly on an existing waypoint otherwise you will be clicking on waypoint and details will be shown If the screen center cross is not over an existing waypoint simply clicking on it i e CLICK on the CENTER SCREEN CROSS will make that position your current position Click either shortly or longer it depends on your configuration LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 16 3 mu m Hu e f you clicked correctly a message will AUZATE wro jp MSBAEEAT appear HE ca 0 0 Current position updated f v LESKI IRANIE ALZATE Ae boda n7 89 9 e Exit Pan mode position is now APA updated LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 17 Screen View IBOX mode IBOX or InfoBox mode is the old XCSoar modality for viewing flight values aside the moving map It is now obsoleted by the LK InfoPages however it has been revised and adapted to make it useable also in landscape mode In portrait mode it is still the best solution for small screen size devices 3 5 inches namely B9 4 Paa 26 09 iA F pes I END TO TSKDIS TSKETE SS ciin y re ic 10 P Y 220 GT o O34 1 8 q 6 Sond ris k Er DIST Azgarin J Ac a O Al ae Agia me 50 4 AE VC ate P x 3329 10922ft ji NETTO 4 MCREADY TSKSP TSKSPAV TSKSPI 0 0 MANUAL
67. ng 50cm far away in the cockpit If you are wearing gloves your touch cannot be accurate If you are circling inside a tight thermal you cannot be accurate in touch If there is some turbulence you cannot be accurate If you cannot keep your eyes on the screen because you are busy looking outside of the cockpit you cannot be accurate either Under all of these circumstances LK can be used with no problems It was made for these situations It was made for pilots airborne not only for pilots on ground Blind clicks Not enough You can change pages and informations on LK without even looking at the screen You actually can change pages on LK even with your eyes closed by just listening to the sounds We have designed custom sounds with frequencies that your ears can easily perceive also in noisy environments And your brain will automatically identify these sounds to LK s pages During normal use you will soon be able to change pages and there are a lot of them without directly looking at the screen This will help you to maintain effective lookout LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 9 The welcome screen LK8000 does not offer screen buttons for most of its functions You don t need to be precise for selecting an invisible button since it is generally easy to locate its screen area While you are using LK pressing on the screen clicking can be done with short long or very long timings producing differe
68. ng settings inside ENGINEERING thing then you are aware of possible consequences LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 70 TrueWind Calculation v1 TrueWind lets you know wind speed and direction during a straight glide Normally the wind is calculated and automatically set only during thermalling While thermalling LK will still calculate and set the wind as before as TrueWind is a user triggered optional function By set the wind we mean adopt the calculated wind and let it be used by the software appearing as the current wind You can however just look at the TrueWind calculated values and do not set them for real usage Normally to calculate the wind direction and intensity during straight flight we need to know ground speed ground course track air speed and air course heading This information is used to calculate the vector differences and results in wind direction and speed Problem is LK8000 is running on PDA and PNA that in most of cases do not have Air speed information and do not have a digital compass to tell your real heading If you have an air speed sensor such as a pitot reporting IAS or TAS it will be used to make more accurate calculations TrueWind v1 will not benefit from a digital compass at this time So how does it work how is it possible to calculate the wind without knowing IAS or TAS and heading With a simple trick We shall let the software know in advance what will be the
69. ng system and the only solution is to exit LK8000 disable and re enable BT and then restart Always check what your bluetooth stack is doing upon disconnection so you shall know what to expect during the flight We are aware that if your external BT GPS is an SPP SLAVE mode device you will have problems if BT is disconnected If your external BT GPS is an SPP MASTER then it will recover automatically LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 36 New Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Intermediate Driver GPS Currently the Intermediate layer from Microsoft in NOT supported PNAs devices with internal GPS BlueTooth If you are using a PNA device that has an internal GPS and also Bluetooth or RS232 you may choose to use the external bluetooth gps or vario or both such as a flarm on PORT 1 and leave the internal GPS on Port 2 so that if for any reason external port is failing you will be using the internal gps automatically thanks to the FALLBACK mechanism Smart message notifications When LK8000 is switching to another port for getting a valid GPS fix you will be notified with a message If you have two gps sources it may happen that sometimes one of them is missing the fix for some seconds and then it is recovering In this case you will notice several messages telling you what s happening This is of course normal since the Fallback engine is working fine However it may become annoying o0 after some message
70. nt from your compass reading you will be told as well TrueWind Quality Result A Quality of TrueWind is reported each time based on how much you could satisfy the TrueWind period erg stale ai ies A Lea ois emere aa ara pes 1 amm AS us P ul Em 4 e EET ieee a o E IBbU x TT Sos I B i Ms A MH eat eet es oes LS EE Wr a T i i FE E n a e r i m B A qut T E bat i at x haf TUE iT L ana E de ACC CPt ana For example if you set 10 seconds TrueWind Period which is the default wind will be calculated even if you could keep constant speed and track for only 7 seconds with a Quality of 70 Quality is considering ground speed quality and heading quality at the same time for your information So if you could keep speed for 7 seconds and heading for 9 quality will be 80 LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 75 Accelerations and compass errors very important You are flying straight and you are ready to test the TrueWind for the first time You only have to keep direction and speed constant right It does look easy You accomplish the first step choosing a plain East direction Neat and big on your compass Your aircraft is now pointing to east no doubts And it is not rolling either wonderful Now it s time for step 2 you want to stabilize the speed to say 100kmh You trim a bit the elevator to get to your 100kmh but all of a sudden something ha
71. nt of you CASTELLOR s 82 I CANTI 8 139 FUIPLANO 5 158 CANCERVO I 29 SANTONIO 97 VENTUROSA 7 6 36 CORNA MAR 7 7 1182 oOo TL Avg GS Dis LS BRL 2807 34 8 ALBENZA 16 6 150 49 RAN 10 15 ALTINO 8 4 16 RONE 6 18 ARALALTA 22 6 154 AE BRONZONE 19 207 ARERA 17 9 101 BALLERINO 14 7 279 BALLERINO 15 2 14 33 3 105 ALTINO 7 30 BLELLO 15 1 176 2 VAL CAVAL 12 di BRONZONE 203 8 51 TORREZZO 166 34 CANCERVO 17 9 153 5577GUGLIELMO 32 4 3 35 x GS Alt Jis T0 TLAvg GS m 119 1731 2 2 136 1678 iv 2 3 TPS 1 6 Dist VAL CAVAL 31 9 8 987 TAKEOFF A 153 TAKEOFF 115 10 5 4993 PADERNO D 25 155 18 5 POIETO 92 I1 7 ALTINO sd 9 11 3 ALTINO 5 2 9 11 8 64 BLELLO 6 155 19 4 CANTOALTO 137 13 1 335 CORNA MAR 12 5 170 16 8 MISMA 5 3 13 1 i UBIONE 3 0 180 17 3 SANTONIO 0 162 15 0 406 RONCOLA 3 177 19 6 CORNA a 12 1 pate 16 0 4 e D 160 16 0 TL Avg Dis SE TLAvg Gt Dis ES 2 135 1647 ES 147 1629 Each nearest page APTS LNDB TPS can be sorted independently by name distance requested efficiency and altitude arrival When you switch between Nearest pages the old sort order is remembered for each page LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Screen Mode Commons The Common pages are meant to list all waypoints that are pertinent to the
72. nt results The most important and frequently used functions are available with short clicks After startup you are asked to click on Center Screen That s not a short click and requires at least half a second Then you are given the main LK8000 screen which is made of a Moving Map page and of a bottom bar a at gt dh already running to proceed you Tactical Flight Computer must click on the center of the LK8000 This is the welcome screen LK is screen It is a medium click XCSoar LK8000 v1 19g Simulator press with your finger and keep pressed Count ONE and Click on center screen to begin release 1685 WES 144 4 free cpustats That s It you just discovered the TEAM O average click on the LK Dis Req F E Avg Alt 220 34 00 s GS The basic idea in LK is that you always have important information concerning your flight available with no clicks or with a couple of blind clicks A blind click does not require you to be precise as we stated before and can be made without directly looking at the screen LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 10 Virtual Keys and Blind clicks LK8000 pages have 7 zones you can click on We shall refer to these zones and timings using this terminology 229 34 0 e 1 means short click on zone 1 e M1 means medium click on zone 1 which normally is around 0 5 to 1 second To test click on it say count one and then releas
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74. oward a principal compass direction and you have been keeping the chosen indicated air for enough seconds Allright Call Menu and press TrueWind button Le OP hg ni Ala You will be instantly given Wind speed and direction from and the Quality factor You are asked if you want to use these values ALZATE 3 U 9 D 15 BIS 3 gr 3 T n f ara a d HS r j 21kmh from 328 hg caca BUR icem rin Accept and save Me Ww F iz J KEOFF SO 2X MIN HG PS HBAR QFE 1209 1900 Press Yes and the wind will be updated and used by the software Press No and it will be ignored You can repeat the procedure if you think something went wrong LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 74 TrueWind messages and Auto Retry If you did not keep heading and or speed for enough time constantly you will be told what s the problem Don t give up Keep flying straight holding speed and direction TrueWind will automatically retry to calculate the wind in the next 20 seconds As soon as there is enough data to calculate the wind the message will automagically appear on screen F a E mio iiem alto on KEEP SPEED INACCURATE HEADING OR TOO B oco STRONG WIND If you could not make it in the next 20 seconds too then no error message is given Better luck next time If there is a very strong wind that is making your ground direction very differe
75. p background color is the one which has been configured inside System Config Menu 4 Terrain Display Empty mapcolor By default it is LCD green 69 E Toma Marcia 0 0 o d T en oO KONG Corna Camo 7QO castelloregi A rx a Cerra Kii o s econo MZucco Mzucco z Corna Marcia i Kond o 9 8 Roncola CEA BAB Brivio 3km NAVAL TLAvg GS Alt Dis Red Fogo lt 127 1329 11 1 985 TLAvg GS Alt Dis ReqE 127 1329 11 7 10 4 With no terrain displayed LK will use black overlays on light backgrounds and white overlays on dark backgrounds to achieve the best possible screen contrast So in this example the LCD green background has automatically forced a black color for overlays With the dark grey background all values are painted white From Menu Display 3 3 you can O a E change in real time the C 88 gc Molinasco 9 Zucd background color by clicking on 0 9 Lm BIS Castelloregi the Topo Back button This button is enabled only when no terrain is displayed otherwise you wouldn t notice any difference You will be able to toggle all colors changing the best one for The background color is also used as background for the analog Variometer LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 5 At the same time you can use the Invert Text button to reverse screen With topology only it will reverse the BottomBar color and
76. port was added LK is not compatible with XCSoar configuration or tasks It installs in a different directory running off an SD card with no CAB files and without using the device memory Please don t call LK8000 XCSoar because original XCSoar developers are afraid people would get confused Beside the new version 6 0 xcsoar is totally different from the LK source base They are now very different software programs This manual is about things that are NOT available in the old XCSoar either because they are new features or because they have been fixed and or deeply changed LK8000 v1 20 is not yet public software It is free of charge but don t distribute it am doing it primarily for myself and friends It is not illegal to have a copy of LK8000 and to use it but it is illegal to distribute LK8000 without the necessary GPL rules respected am not releasing the source code at this stage so please do not ask for it Here we have a very interesting situation A free software which is illegal to distribute but perfectly legal to use Special thanks to Mino Giolai Sergio Silva Mateusz Pusz Bjorn Haugsgjerd Allan Broadribb Berthold Bredenbeck Peter Lengkeek Sasa Mihajlovic Karim Trojette Michel Hagoort and all of the alpha testers people Thanks to Lucas Marchesini D S X for data filtering algorithms and the wind calculation help and to Donato from Digifly Europe Paolo Ventafridda Milano Italy March 2010 LK8000 v1
77. ppens your compass is not pointing to East anymore It is actually turning Ouch So you start back from step 1 and you have some problems this time because it looks like your compass is not working that well but finally you manage to point East again Back to step 2 trim a bit and OUCH compass problem again it is turning What s going on Mystery solved Explanation from the web may help you in case you wonder what has happened From pilot s web site The magnetic dip and the forces of inertia cause magnetic compass errors when accelerating and decelerating on Easterly and westerly headings Because of the pendulous type mounting the aft end of the compass card is tilted upward when accelerating and downward when decelerating during changes of airspeed When accelerating on either an east or west heading the error appears as a turn indication toward north When decelerating on either of these headings the compass indicates a turn toward south The word ANDS Acceleration North Deceleration South may help you to remember the acceleration error LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 76 How to get along with acceleration errors on compass readouts In two words ignore them After Step 1 accomplish step 2 without bothering to look at the compass Keep concentrated on the airspeed instead Assume that your compass is still reading OK and it is not really turning Acceleration is making the compass
78. reful whenever possible do not use the same name for different waypoints If you are using names such as START FINISH etc remember that loading several task files will NOT delete internally old waypoints until software restart SeeYou Waypoint files e any task lines normally at the bottom of the file will be removed e MAX number of characters in radio Frequency field is 15 anything over 15 will be considered an error and NOT used e MAX number of characters in Code field is 15 anything over 15 will be considered an error and NOT used e Comments are truncated at 150 characters e Waypoint names are truncated to 30 characters although they are printed differently depending on device screen resolution normally around 10 chars LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 45 COMPEgps Waypoint files e LK8000 1 20 can load only WGS84 LAT LON WAYPOINTS FROM COMPEgps You cannot use WPT file with UTM coordinates in current version e All COMPEgps waypoints are loaded and saved as simple TURNPOINTS not AIRPORTS or LANDING points This should be no problem for paragliders since they are not using the BestAlternate functions e Normally you should load COMPEgps as file 2 e Saving waypoints will force LK to remove all w lines in the original file Keep a copy of original e Altitude in COMPE has a strange like the format itself format with a precision of 1 1000000 of meter that s right 1 million of meter
79. remove waypoints from history since they are automatically removed when they exceed the maximum number normally around 40 When you change waypoint files from System Config menu the history is reset The history file inside the Configuration directory cannot be edited manually LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 33 Advanced Dual Port Communications LK8000 can use 2 two simultaneous serial lines that provide NMEA data from GPS and or vario instruments Port COMO Baudrate 38400 Port COM1 Baudrate Ititude ON Geoid Altitude O a ie GPS Alt Offset 0 m Close We call them PORT 1 and PORT 2 or Device A and Device B Each Port is connected to a physical COM port such as COM1 COM2 etc You may configure PORT 1 con COM2 and PORT2 con COM1 for example Do not confuse LK s ports with computer COMs Each port can be configured to use a dedicated device type such as an LX a Compeo a Zander a Digifly etc FLARM DSX traffic advisors are automatically detected and do not need to be configured They are considered Generic devices e PORT 1 is normally the primary GPS input If available GPS position and speed is taken from this port e PORT 2 is normally an additional GPS input or vario air pressure instrument If you are using only one port set both ports with exactly the same parameters LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 3
80. rspaces need SUA formatted airspace files _Configuration contains configuration files created by the software and NOTEPAD TXT file that you can edit IDFLARM TXT file that you can edit _Logger will contain IGC files and NMEA text files created by the software while logging _Maps can contain terrain files that are named with DAT suffix example Terrain Dem Dat topology files or a unique file with XCM suffix which is a renamed ZIP file containing all of the above _Polars has an example of how to create your own polar file _Task is the place where TSK files are created Waypoints is the place where you can put your seeyou CUP files or winpilot DAT or CompeGPS or all of them There is also an editable file called WAYNOTES TXT that has an example inside _ System directory is very important and you should never modify any file inside it There is a subdirectory called CEUtilities where some tools are available for emergencies You can try those tools which are by third parties On PNA devices you will need to copy those tools where the DLL files are located otherwise they wont work properly or at all LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 7 DEVICE MEMORY INSTALL lf for any reason you cannot use an SD card you may install everything inside the internal device memory In this case the LK8000 folder should be placed exactly on the root directory of the device and the executables together with the DLL libraries
81. rtain pressure assumed on Mean Sea Level 1013 25hPa It is called Standard Pressure and any altitude relative to standard pressure is called QNE Air spaces and air navigation are all relative to standard atmosphere and thus they are all using standard pressure However you know that pressure changes and your altimeter needs to be calibrated before takeoff regulating the pressure Normally you simply adjust the altitude to the correct known ground altitude and the reference pressure inside the altimeter is set accordingly automatically The new pressure is called QNH Now from Config menu Basic Settings you can change either the Altitude or the QNH You need a valid baro altitude available first of course And you normally do it once before takeoff Adjust the altitude to the known correct ground altitude and you will see that the QNH pressure is adjusted as well During flight you may ask your AFIS for QNH change the QNH and your altitude will be recalibrated Automatic QNH and QFE QNH auto calibration LK will try to guess and set automagically your QNH your Altitude really at startup Don t be surprised if your QNH seems good without having regulated anything Let s call it QNH auto calibration It works only if you have an incoming barometric altitude from a vario of course you have a valid GPS fix you have configured terrain data and you are standing on a known terrain you are not moving it is the first time atte
82. s played otherwise the click is lower This way you can change stripes getting to the first one without looking at the screen simply clicking until you can listen to the higher click It works the same as on some digital watches to let you know you are at the beginning of a menu Each stripe of NAVBOXES is named on the right lower part of the map near the zoom level The first and default stripe is called NAV1 Then you will find ALT2 STA3 TSK4 ATN5 SYS6 CRUT FIN8 AUX9 Plus an hidden stripe called TRMO is available only while thermalling circling As you can see each stripe is named both with three letters and a number so after some usage of LK8000 you will easily remember their position and you will be able to select them without even looking at the screen starting from the first one In total there are thus 10 5 50 values 60 values on some devices Some of these stripes cannot be configured some other are configurable Configurable stripes are TRMO CRU7 FIN8 AUX9 Their values are configured inside system menu configuration pages 16 17 18 19 Those 16 17 18 19 pages let you configure up to 9 choices ordered 1 to 9 NAVBOXES will use the first 5 or 6 on hires devices These configurations are also used for INFOPAGES 1 1 1 2 etc using in this case 8 choices oee the INFOPAGE documentation LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 19 NavBoxes stripes NAV1 Navigatio
83. s vario IAS TAS nettovario fails to work a message will appear on screen telling you the problem If you configured Use baro altitude and no baro is anymore available LK8000 will FALLBACK using GPS altitude As soon as real baro altitude is back it will be used automatically and a new message will be telling you EPIS 812 15 03 55 55 A fep e A pa de GPS waitinc 3 2 lors tina Si USING AVAILABLE BARO ALTITUDE z BARO ALTITUDE NOT AVAILABLE USING GPS ALTITUDE HGPS HBAR QFE AtAGL FL HGPS HBAR 229 254 254 29 E 269 una The FALLBACK mechanism grants you that if you have two GPS devices connected and at least one of them is working you will be able to proceed without any problem And baro gps altitude is always managed at best A special usage device is NMEA OUT in this case the incoming NMEA stream from GPS on Port 1 will be sent out as is on Port 2 If you couple Port 2 to a Bluetooth virtual COM then you will be broadcasting the NMEA stream to external devices such as a secondary PNA PDA Do not connect two devices that are providing baro altitude at the same time BlueTooth Devices oome bluetooth devices will give problems on disconnection Always close LK8000 BEFORE shutting down the external bluetooth GPS Some bluetooth devices will not be able to connect again after disconnection no matter if COM port are restarted by LK8000 It is a problem of the BT stack layer in the operati
84. s you will be told GOING SILENT on com reporting and no more messages of this kind will be printed IN CASE you manually reset com ports from the config menu button messages will be printed again for another bunch of times and then LK will go silent as usual LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 37 External Devices Condor Simulator Set the config system menu Device A and B name to Condor This will allow LK8000 to correctly parse incoming data from condor setting automatically wind bearing and speed barometric altitude etc By the way Barometric and GPS altitude in condor are equal This means your virtual GPS has no errors You can in any case set Use baro altitude in system config menu 5 Very important in the device config menu set Geoid Altitude OFF to get correct readings of GPS altitude Or if you don t care about GPS use baro altitude as stated above DigiFly Leonardo LK8000 fully supports Digifly Leonardo Pro BT at the latest firmware release dated February 2010 Telemetry is available either through serial RS232 or BlueTooth serial If you are using Bluetooth remember to unplug serial cable If you are using serial cable remember to disable Bluetooth on the device In ADV SETTINGS choose Telemetry mode FL1 for normal flight usage with samples at 1hz one sample per second Do not choose FL2 in current LK8000 version Check that you are not using CAR mode otherwise no air telemetry is sent
85. se estimations are calculated oo read the following pages very carefully LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 60 Arrival Altitude Explanation Some pilots prefer to use the Requested Efficiency value to estimate their glide path to destination Some other pilots just love to read the altitude arrival value There s a very important difference between Requested Efficiency and Arrival Altitude Requested Efficiency is a geometric value based on your altitude and the distance to the waypoint This is a pure and simple absolute number and the pilot will judge by himself if it is a good or bad value for his aircraft for the wind conditions for the weather conditions etc Requested Efficiency for landing point does take into account safety altitude of course but does not take into account the wind When it is windy your rEff will remain the same only your real efficiency will change You will judge the value Arrival altitude on the contrary is estimated with complicated calculations taking into account your glider s polar the wind and your MC settings It is important to understand that an estimation is only a guess and that it is additionally using your own guessing on MC setting It is thus always a good idea to keep an eye also on Requested Efficiency and let your brain compute the glide path s quality estimation Here are some explanations on how Arrival Altitude is calculated e SafetyAltitude is used
86. should be copied in the root directory as well moving them from the LK8000 folder one path back This is not a standard procedure it should be used only for emergencies and it is not suggested to use the internal memory RUNTIME LOG After executing LK8000 a file called RUNTIME LOG will appear inside the LK8000 directory in use This file is a log of LK activity and should be used for debugging purposes In case of problems remember to copy this file in a safe place on the PC because it will be overwritten the next time you execute LK If for any reason you cannot find waypoints and map files from the LK configuration menu search for the RUNTIME LOG file because it should be placed aside the _Waypoints folder and _Logger etc This file is human readable with a text editor PC INSTALL A PC version is available for running LK on the desktop PC running Windows This version is exactly the same version for CE devices with a few minor differences such as no battery support and a different and unlimited memory use CE devices have a memory limit for application while PC version has not It depends on the operating system not on LK8000 The LK8000 folder should be unzipped inside your Documents folder that you normally find on your desktop The direct path should look on a Windows XP something like C Documents and Settings yourname Documents LK8000 Maps Waypoints etc FLY or SIM version The SIMulator version
87. t Resta oui lve I ek ii 35 Baro Alutude and AME SENSO T A eb enn Re me AT ty 36 Blue Loot Devi CS is costa caver a a N 36 New Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Intermediate Driver GPS ooonnncnnncnnnncnnocccnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnos 37 PNAs devices with internal GPS BlueTooth oooocccoccccnooconocconnnccnnonononoconnnccnnnnononaccnnnccnnns 37 SUMAN S SAFC NOUN CIONS a lada 37 Exe DICES ona 38 Gondor ImulalOE estes 38 DistEly Leonardo PERS 38 braumiscr Eivtec COIN pe 0 9D mires shen ee aq hee Dusscu Mute iia 39 EP TINS E ac geo A M a edita eee c ne EU te 39 Io deu a erie ere mere een tr ere ye merry 40 baud Rate TSU sou ome qoos Sacra a te eoa dosage ic ida 40 Leds aud OUS si mmr parser ony oam rupta bree paren aud Lon ur eer sree er rrer iem P LA ur er pore D este er Pree 4 Stealth NIQUES ia E 4 Radio Radeon 42 PAT UG OM UNS movin IVA AS Aa 42 aL AMC S 1 A bedient neh atau Beane tape dicia deber ad 43 FLARM support is still work in Pro stes nia 43 Multiple waypoint s formats 1n LK SODA id 44 Waypoint Names Task Waypoints History Waypoints ccccccccccccessseseseeceeeeeesaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaas 45 IEOU Way Pon TICS taces nemo dust ott gh hasnt eden ence eae nes oe na S dE DAL acere 45 CONIPESpsS Waypolnt MES seneni a a 46 Changing Waypoint files and Home Way point ccccccccccccccssssseseeeeccccceseeeseseecceeeeesseeeesseeeeess 46 TAKEOFF Virtual waypoint and Home waypoint
88. t is easier to try it than to explain 1 PRESS 3 RELEASE Go to the next page in the current screen mode short click CHANGE MODE vanes short click medium click MENU IROX MODE xj 3 RELEASE i PRESS Go to the previous page in the current screen mode short click CHANGE MODE EN Esos medium click MENU NEXT re E E NAVBOXES Pere THUE HULE You may have noticed that actually it works reversed compared to an IPHONE This is the default lf you want to invert next and previous go inside config system menu 10 Interface and change IPHONE gestures Now that you know how to do it you can change to the next Info Page LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 23 Info Page 1 2 Thermal a c X _ A 11 2 Thermal Alzate 10 22 10 Dis Brg NxEArT Reg E 31 5 257 800 Alt 35 Vario 1956 110 0 5 TC Gain TC 30 TC Avg 474 0 1 1 2 41 3 Wind 19 8 TC Gain TC 30 TL Avg Th All Climb 474 0 1 1 2 1 3 86 New values we haven t seen yet are Vario the variometer lift value from an external variometer or calculated by the GPS or barometric altitude difference from the last fix TC Gain Current Thermal altitude Gain TC 30 Thermal average lift in last 30 seconds TC Avg Current Thermal average since the beginning of circling Th All all thermal average so far also called daily thermal average You may normally leave the thermal wh
89. turn if you are heading East or West or nearby But as you can verify by yourself your aircraft is not really turning is it Once you are satisfied with Step 1 level your roll angle and go for Step 2 and once Step 2 Is over ask for results on Step 3 Do not look at the compass after Step 1 or you will go crazy North and South vs East and West As you can understand from the previous explanation your compass won t suffer too much while you accelerate towards N or S This is making N and S direction easier to point to looking at the compass However any direction is OK as long as you know how to get along with wrong compass readings How does it work How does the TrueWind know that you are heading north for example if you don t have a digital compass That is another trick with some limits Let s assume you have chosen N E S W button trying to keep north on your compass We assume that if your ground track direction is 020 you are trying to keep 000 and you are drifted 20 degrees by the wind Or if your ground direction is 070 we assume you are keeping 090 that is EAST on your compass However if we read 045 ground course it is not possible to know if you are heading N or E The dead zone or uncertain zone ranges from 035 to 055 in this case So a course angle of 035 055 125 145 215 235 and 305 325 degrees is considered invalid We cannot be sure about your heading intentions That s of course valid in the
90. u don t have an analog compass so you don t know your real heading Some instruments such as Garmin 76S series do have an electronic compass available but it is working only when correctly positioned otherwise it is giving random values You may buy a good trekking compass which is always a good idea also for navigation in case the GPS fails to work Airspeed is available on some instruments such as Flytec Compeo Digifly otherwise the best solution is to use the Hands Up speed and of course to put up your hands The basic trim speed for paraglider s wings also for competition wings is 39 km h The TrueWind Period should be lowered to 8 seconds If you don t have either a good compass or the air speed indicator or you can t keep Hands Up speed then it is time to grasp that bottle of Wild Turkey we have been talking about a few pages back and forget TrueWind LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 78 Basic Settings Barometric altitude and QNH If your NMEA feed is providing barometric altitude you should select it inside system config menu 5 Use baro altitude first Your baro altitude will be at all effects used internally for navigation Baro altitude is really a pressure measurement and it works the same as on wrist altimeters such as a Suunto or a Casio Flarm LX Zander Cambridge etc are all reporting the same altitude being based on digital pressure sensors This altitude is relative to a ce
91. um glide ratio accepted is your best LD In other words even if you fly with tail wind at 30 better than your best LD factor VG will limit your glide to best LD anyway This is because we want to paint a conservative value without tail wind and or energetic routes On the contrary if you are flying in a head wind or simply at a higher MC VG will show your real glide ratio Please understand that the VisualGlide is only painting your current Glide Ratio on the moving map without considering safety issues of any kind If it is windy and you change direction remember that your glide ratio will be fully valuable only after the configured period of time for averaging VisualGlide does not account for wind It simply uses the wind effect on your ground efficiency Visual glide can also be used to simply visualize distances on the map if you ignore the height values Distances are an absolute value and are always correctly scaled on your map LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 84 Configuring LK8000 for Paragliding The following configuration is a good example But first of all e select Aircraft Category Paraglider in system config menu 7 e change from Basic to Expert menu 2 Airspace Use black Outline Off 3 Map Display Labels Names Trail Length Short Orientation Track Up Auto Zoom Off Trail Drift Off Trail Width 8 to 14 I use at 12 Circling Zoom On Declutter waypoints Low Dec
92. ut scales are different for gliders and para and cannot be adjusted In addition during those 20 seconds of zoom out you can click again on the upper left corner to dismiss the function and be immediately back to normal zoom Battery Warnings Battery messages are now limited to a max of 30 not including those about critical conditions In case you have a faulty charging process or a buggy device this will solve an annoying problem of too many notifications ActiveMap When map is active ActiveMap ON short clicking on the map will result in selecting the nearest waypoint s details This is the old beahaviour of LK8000 and it is still the default During flights it is very difficult to select a waypoint by clicking on it on the map Many pilots requested that this feature could be disabled and Paragliders expecially requested the MapLock facility Disabling ActiveMap will no more select waypoints Instead if clicking on the upper half part of the map will result in zoom in and clicking on lower part of the map will result in zoom out just like with Virtual Keys but with a much faster response ActiveMap is still compatible and can be mixed with Virtual Keys and MapLock However using also virtual keys will require a very short click to obtain a zoom action It is better to disable Virtual Keys while Active Map is not desired and you prefer to have fast zoom in and zoom out expecially on PNA devices ActiveMap OFF will still a
93. vice if it doesn t it is normally fixed in a few days once we grab one of those new units PNA car navigators have landscape screens which LK was designed for However it works perfectly in portrait mode as well and the LK user interface can also be disabled to gain a vanilla XCSoar interface A great deal of time was spent to make it backward compatible at user interface level also in portrait mode LK will behave differently on different screen resolutions the User Interface is fine tuned for each resolution for best results For example on large 800x480 devices the Bottom Bar holds 6 boxes while on other resolutions only 5 are shown The Nearest infopages can list 5 to 10 items depending on screen resolution and so on Supported screen resolutions You are assured that all of the following screen resolutions have been fine tuned for the best user experience Portrait mode 240x320 480x640 Landscape mode 320x240 400x240 480x234 480x272 640x480 800x480 If a device is using a screen resolution that is not in this list you will be told about the problem when running the software It probably won t look very good from the GUI point of view To our knowledge these resolutions are the most commonly used nowadays PNAs normally use 480x272 resolution with very few exceptions Adding a new resolution takes only a few hours so this list will grow up as needed LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 4
94. we are still missing something to get through Sond rio DIST At these distances values are approximated so rounding errors in calculations may lead to discrepancies between first and last obstacles But since we are calculating using a guessed MC as well it is not that important E no And finally at 3329m we have SEP green icon as predicted We shall Sondrio DIST arrive 1423m over the destination 28 50 4 at MCO Notes on Obstacle calculation If the far obstacle can be painted in current map zoom issue then it is painted with the real altitude difference needed to arrive over the obstacle If the altitude difference is not painted then this number is less than 50m and you are still far away from obstacles This number in fact is rounded with 50m precision Then the first obstacle is painted with a red cross too and the arrival difference is written only if meaningful When you are near obstacles less than 5km away the altitude difference is shown even if showing only a few meters ALL CALCULATIONS on obstacles consider safetyMC depending on how you set it So if you are gliding towards a landable place SafetyMC will apply If you are gliding towards a non landable WP and you have chosen to use SafetyMC only for landables then current MC will be used Read this twice it is important Arrival altitude over obstacles ALWAYS considers Safety Terrain Height LK8000 v1 20 USER MANUAL c 2010 by P

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