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« on: January 09, 2023, 03:20:54 pm »
Peter,
Thanks once again for the reply. I've run some more trials, though now I have to 'jury rig' the set up since the panel is dismantled and I have a small temporary power supply to replace the main battery.
i) Firstly, the radar display problem was indeed my problem on not having the 'TFC' box selected on the device that I now use. It was there originally and then we switched devices. Now displays same traffic as in Traffic page. Definitely 'operator error' here!
ii) Secondly, I followed those links about getting i-phone hotspots to connect and after trying all the various options that people had suggested, managed to get it to work. I think the main trick that made it happen was the one to do with having the i-phone hotspot set-up page actually open and 'live' when PAW was trying to locate it. I think this is an issue for later i-phones, where if you close the hotspot page (even though you've selected the hotspot to be available and visible) it somehow makes it disappear from view for devices such as PAW. Anyway, it connected and more traffic was then definitely visible so it was clearly then doing something through i-grid.
iii) I powered off and then removed the SD card and it all looked very clean but I gave it another clean anyway. Nothing seemed to change but then the gps dropout was an intermittent problem anyway so I'm probably unlikely to see it on a random check. I'll ask Ash about sending another card in case, but we won't really be able to check it all out until the aircraft is back in the air after its winter maintenance (probably April). Alternatively, given that the GPS drop-out affected both the transponder and the SkyDemon display simultaneously, I could just let it run with the aircraft being static, transponder off, but SD on, and see if we get another drop-out flagged up on SD. If I did that would I need to sit and watch the SD, looking for the moment when/if it dropped GPS, or would we be able to see any such drop on later review of a track file (given that there would be no aircraft movement)?
Many thanks for all the help.
David