Flarm External Displays; Task Declaration Into Flarm; Transferring Files From Flarm - LX Navigation Zeus User Manual

8.1 Flarm external displays

LX Zeus makes it possible to connect up to two Flarm external displays. Both connections are controlled
from Flarm directly without any LX Zeus influence. LX Zeus system also provides 3V power for Flarm
displays.

8.2 Task declaration into Flarm

In the case of an IGC approved version of Flarm, connected to Zeus Flarm port, an automatic declaration
process is executed. The process is identical whether with LX Eos or Colibri II. This means that the current
task and pilot data is sent to Flarm automatically.
The declaration process takes around 30 seconds. After the process is finished all LED lights on the Flarm
display will switch off and the red POWER light will start blinking. This means that the process of sending
task declaration to Flarm is complete.
The SD card should be inserted into the SD slot without any CONFIG (.cfg) file on the card! If .cfg is on
the card, then this file will have priority and the declaration will be wrong. Thus, there would
be .cfg declaration instead of LX Zeus declaration inside IGC file so it will not work!
Flight recording settings (recording interval...) will not be sent to Flarm, use SD card or Flarm Tool (see:
www.lxnavigation.com – support / manuals: LX Flarm update instructions.

8.3 Transferring files from Flarm

Transferring files from Flarm to a micro SD card is a very easy process. The micro SD card has to be inserted
into the micro SD port, on the front of the unit (in case of LX Flarm Red Box). After the flight is completed,
wait for around three minutes, then turn LX Zeus OFF and ON again. After switching on, a red POWER LED
light on the Flarm display starts blinking. All other LED lights should be off. This means that all the flights
that were not already on the micro SD card are now transferring to the SD card. After the red POWER LED
light stops blinking the process is finished. The micro SD card, which will now contain all the flights from
Flarm, can now be removed.
If the micro SD card has not been used for a while Flarm will automatically transfer all flights, that are not
already on the micro SD card, from its internal memory to the micro SD card. If there are a lot of flights to
transfer, the process may take up to 20 minutes! Flarm will always store a maximum 20 flights, so, if a 21
flight is recorded, then the oldest flight will be removed automatically.
Declaration warning!
Important!
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