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Technical Support / New FX unit

« on: May 08, 2024, 09:21:18 am »

Hi,
I have a question about the new FX unit.

Is it intended for aircraft with an existing FLARM installation to enable them to see and be seen directly (i.e. without the ground network) by PilotAware equipped aircraft?

I have an existing PilotAware Rosetta installation and I'm not sure I would benefit from the FX unit, unless it allows the opposite of the above, i.e. enable me to see and be seen by directly FLARM equipped aircraft.

Please could someone clarify this.

Thanks,
Chris Young
G-RVAH

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Technical Support / Re: Rosetta / Sky Demon / uAvionix AV-30 combo

« on: January 01, 2024, 05:23:34 pm »

Yes indeed, here's to a dry January 

FYI I've made a video showing the installation and function (see link below). The MFD page and traffic mode is from 6:08 min.

https://youtu.be/8j9-yZG965I

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Technical Support / Re: Rosetta / Sky Demon / uAvionix AV-30 combo

« on: December 31, 2023, 04:00:49 pm »

See photos of the wifi pages for ref.

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Technical Support / Re: Rosetta / Sky Demon / uAvionix AV-30 combo

« on: December 31, 2023, 03:58:24 pm »

Hi all,
Just to close on this thread. I managed to get my PAW Rosetta to send traffic info to my new AV-30 EFIS via wifi.
The problem I had before was that the filter was too tight on the AV-30. Today I widened the filter to allow all traffic except my own aircraft and I was able to see all the traffic on both my PAW radar and AV-30 traffic page.

See attached photos showing the radar displays on both units. I'll send the wifi settings pages separately.

Happy flying in 2024 to all 
Chris.

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Technical Support / Re: Rosetta / Sky Demon / uAvionix AV-30 combo

« on: December 19, 2023, 08:44:29 pm »

See photo of AV-30 traffic screen with only one aircraft showing.

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Technical Support / Re: Rosetta / Sky Demon / uAvionix AV-30 combo

« on: December 19, 2023, 08:42:43 pm »

Hi all,
Just to report back on this thread.

I installed an AV-30 unit in my RV-7 today. I got it talking to the PAW unit via wifi and it seemed to be receiving traffic info.
However I could only see one aircraft on the AV-30 whereas there were several on the PAW radar page.

Anyway I ran out of time to experiment further, but maybe I need to adjust some of the filter settings on the AV-30 to see more.

See attached screenshot of the AV-30 page showing connection to PAW and photo of the unit with the one aircraft.

I'll report back next time.
Regards,
Chris.

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Technical Support / Re: Rosetta / Sky Demon / uAvionix AV-30 combo

« on: December 12, 2023, 07:53:41 am »

Thanks Alan,
I've ordered the AV-30 with AV-link and will feedback how I get on with getting it to talk to my Rosetta unit.
BTW I've read in the PilotAware manual that there are 4 Device Connect settings:

1. All
2. PilotAware (UDP)
3. GDL90 (UDP)
4. FLARM (TCP)

At the moment we have it set to number 2 and that works well by sending traffic info to SkyDemon. I'm not sure whether to change this setting so that PAW can talk to BOTH SkyDemon and the AV-30? Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this, if not I'll try changing it if it doesn't work on number 2.

Best regards,
Chris.

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Technical Support / Re: Rosetta / Sky Demon / uAvionix AV-30 combo

« on: December 10, 2023, 08:45:38 am »

Hi Chris / All,
I also have the same question whether my Rosetta will be able to send traffic information to an AV-30 EFIS. Please could you let me know whether you've managed to get this to work?

Best regards,
Chris Young
RV-7
G-RVAH

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Technical Support / Re: What's in the 20230228 software release?

« on: March 31, 2023, 06:17:14 pm »

Hi Keith,
Yes we were trying to eliminate all the bearingless contact alerts since we found them excessive. However if this option converts them into contacts with a bearing then that would be more useful. So we'll try turning this back on and see how we get on.

Thanks for the tip,
Chris.

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Technical Support / Re: What's in the 20230228 software release?

« on: March 16, 2023, 07:21:19 pm »

Thanks for this info Lee. I understand that most of the changes are with iGRID.

I'm interested in whether there have been any changes to the audio alerts?

We find that there are an excessive number of audio alerts for bearingless contacts which come through even though we have disabled them (see attached settings picture). We get multiple alerts “TRAFFIC NOTICE”  “TRAFFIC ALERT” “TRAFFIC DANGER”- usually 1000'+ below, especially when near airfields. I'm not sure whether this is a bug or whether there is another way of disabling these?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Technical Support / What's in the 20230228 software release?

« on: March 11, 2023, 04:12:41 pm »

Hi,
Please could someone help me to understand what is in the latest (20230228) software release. The PilotAware website appears to be out of date since it talks about "The second fantastic software release for 2022 is available now." and gives details iGRID features.

However, I cannot find any release notes for v20230228.


Thanks in advance,
Chris Young.

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Technical Support / Re: iGrid connection to hotspot flakey - Solution to open on hotspot page?

« on: July 30, 2022, 10:10:02 am »

Hi all,
Some feedback from my flight yesterday using PAW with iGRID. I followed the advice to open and leave my iphone on the hotspot page and this worked well. PAW was able to connect to the iphone automatically. Thanks.

BTW One other feedback, I found the buttons on the RADAR display almost impossible to use in flight. It was quite bumpy yesterday and the buttons are very small on my ipad so with my fingers (not particularly fat!) it was very difficult. See attached screenshot showing buttons in question.

Regards,
Chris
G-RVAH.

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Technical Support / Re: Antennas - where have you stuck yours?

« on: July 30, 2022, 09:35:57 am »

OK, here is the vector plot with PilotAware only.

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Technical Support / Re: Antennas - where have you stuck yours?

« on: July 30, 2022, 09:00:41 am »

See associated vector plot.

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Technical Support / Re: Antennas - where have you stuck yours?

« on: July 30, 2022, 08:59:33 am »

Hi,
I have an RV-7 (all metal) and get good results with external antennas on the belly. See attached pics showing antenna position and associated vector plot.
Best regards,
Chris
G-RVAH