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Page 1: User Manual
User manual Document version 1.4... - Page 2 FLYMASTER Avionics Lda. herein FLYMASTER avionics. FLYMASTER Avionics hereby grants permission to download a copy of this manual onto a hard drive or other electronic storage medium to be viewed and...
- Page 3 FLYMASTER B1. Flight safety is the sole responsibility of the pilot. It is unsafe to operate the FLYMASTER B1 while in the air. Failure by the pilot equipped with a FLYMASTER B1 to pay full attention to the aircraft and flying conditions while flying could result in accident with property damage and/or personal injury.
- Page 4 5.8. Screen Contrast ....................... 20 5.9. Language/Units ....................... 20 5.10. Firmware ....................... 21 5.11. Shutdown ......................21 6. Updating B1 Firmware ..................22 7. .Fail Safe firmware update .................. 24 7.1. Introduction ......................24 7.2. Update procedure ....................24 Version 1.4...
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Page 5: Introduction
Fully charge the battery before start using FLYMASTER B1. Charging battery can be performed either by connecting the wall socket charger or the PC USB cable (both included in the package) to the B1 USB port located on the right side of the B1 (see Figure 1). -
Page 7: Turning The Unit On And Off
Figure 3 –Settings Menu Mode 2.2. Turning the Unit On and Off To turn on the B1, briefly push the S1 key, this will display the start up screen. A 10 second countdown will start, push the S2 (Enter key) to confirm power up before time is elapsed Figure 4 –Start up Screen... -
Page 8: Understanding The Flight Screen
(down) keys to select “Shutdown” option, and then pressing S2 (Enter key). The flight timer will start automatically whenever the altitude varies more than 5 meters. The timer stops when the B1 is turned off. When a flight is started, data collected during flight time is automatically recorded in the internal memory. -
Page 10: Maximum And Minimum Vertical Speed
5. Settings Almost all the FLYMASTER B1 parameters can be adjusted using the settings menu. By changing parameter values the user can easily adapt features as the variometer acoustics, time, or display contrast, just to name a few. The menu can be accessed by pressing the S1 key for more than 1 second. -
Page 11: Flight Log
Option Selection Parameters Figure 6 –Settings Menu Options The settings menu screen is divided in two parts (see Figure 6). The top one shows all the settings menu options. Menu option can be changed by pressing S3 and S4 keys. The current menu option is always highlighted and for most of the options his parameters can be seen on the bottom part of the screen. -
Page 12: Set Altimeter
B1 User Manual Selected Flight Flight Data Figure 7 –Flight Log Flights can be chose by using S3 and S4 keys. For each flight the flowing information is displayed: • ID – Flight identification • Duration – Flight duration • Max Climb – Maximal climbing rate •... -
Page 13: Digital Vario
introduced press S2 to pass to the next altimeter press S2, to return to the previous press S1. Note: The Altimeters 2 and 3 are directly linked to Altimeter 1, changing altimeter 1 will automatically change the other 2 in the same proportion. The final option allows defining the number of visible altimeters in the Flight Screen in addition to Altimeter 1, you can choose from seeing Altimeter 3, or seeing Altimeter 2 and 3. -
Page 14: Date Time
Figure 9 –Digital Vario 5.4. Date Time The Date Time menu option allows the user to set the internal B1 time and date. This value is used to identify each flight log. This option allows also to set an alarm. The alarm can be useful to wake up in the morning dreaming of a good thermal. -
Page 15: Sound Level
The final option allows the user to adjust the sound volume. When the sound symbol is highlighted, the B1 beeps 5 times to demonstrate the currently selected sound level. Using the S3 and S4 keys the sound level can be adjusted to the desired volume. -
Page 16: Audio Frequencies
B1 User Manual Figure 11 – Acoustic Thresholds 5.6. Audio Frequencies The “Audio Frequencies” settings menu option allows the user to adjust the vario tone to his preference, by adjusting the “Base Frq” and “Increments”. The “Base Frq” is the first frequency used to produce the initial sound which corresponds to the climb threshold, usually 0.1 m/s. -
Page 17: Advanced Features
Figure 12 – Audio Frequencies 5.7. Advanced Features The advanced features settings option can be used to adjust the B1 acoustics to the user preferences. Using these features the user can turn the vario sound more or less responsive, and can also turn on and off the buzzer functionality. -
Page 18: Damper
Cadence can be set to 0 or 1. When set to 0 will cause the beeping cadence to beep slower initially and speed up faster later, wile when set to 1 will cause B1 to beep faster at the beginning but evolve slower. The Cadence default value of the B1 is 1. -
Page 20: Screen Contrast
Figure 15 – Screen Contrast 5.9. Language/Units The “Language/units” menu option allows the user to change the B1 interface language and the measure units of the altimeter and the vario. In order to do that the user should press S2 (Enter) key, and then use S3 and S4 keys to chose the desired language. -
Page 21: Firmware
When Shutdown menu option is highlighted the user can see the level of the battery in percentage, if S2 key is pressed, the B1 is turned off. The B1 has automatically saved all flight data before it had been turned off. Version 1.4... -
Page 22: Updating B1 Firmware
The first step of the updating procedure consists of installing the USB drivers order that should simply FlymasterUSBdrivers.msi file and follow the on-screen instructions. When the installation ends, connect the B1 to the PC and Windows should detect the B1 and automatically install the driver. Version 1.4... -
Page 24: Fail Safe Firmware Update
Follow the same procedure described on section 6. to install the drivers, once they are correctly installed use the following procedure. 1- Connect the B1 to your PC using the cable supplied. If it is the first time the B1 is being connected to the PC Windows should report that new hardware is present a ready to use. - Page 25 “Menu” button, if not press and release the reset button again until the message is shown. Note that the reset button is a small switch inside the B1, you should feel it click. 7. Wait until you see the message “Complete” on the FlashB1 ,and B1 starts to function normally. Version 1.4...
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