RC Electronics FenixS basic User Manual page 33

FenixS– user's manual
Thermal assistant page will start indicating strength of thermals with the size of the dots. The
larger the displayed dots, the stronger is the thermal.
Colors of the dots, will display following type of the thermal:
Red circuit – will indicated positive thermal.
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Blue circuit – will indicated negative thermal.
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Graphically displayed T.MAX value of the thermal can be seen on Thermal assistant page as
large white dot.
Figure 30: Positive thermal with T.MAX circle.
Displayed green glider represents current positions of the pilot in the thermal. Left hand circling
will display glider on the right side and right-hand circling will display glider on the left side.
Off-center, the integrated airspeed can be seen as well as altitude.
To enter the Thermal assistant submenu, the pilot must short press bottom rotary knob.
Thermal assistant submenu holds the following functions, which can be enabled or disabled:
 Auto switch – enabled will automatically switch to thermal assistant page when circling
is detected.
MacCready colors – will represent climb stronger than 1.2*MC with red dots. Between
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1.2*MC and 0.8*MC the color of the dots will be yellow and less than 0.8*MC will
display blue dots.
Max beep / offset – will make the device beep when the glider is approaching the point
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of the T.MAX value. With offset set, Fenix will generate a beep by a set number of
seconds before T.MAX position is reached.
Figure 31: Negative thermal reference figure.
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September 2021