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Preflight Settings - Flarm

Flarm

Here you have the possibility to readout and set several Flarm data. On this page you can upload a selected flight task together with its related data to the Flarm device.

Window description
In the upper window part are displayed different read only items in the Flarm Data panel from the Flarm device. If the fields are filled with ??? no data could be read from the Flarm device. In this case there seems to be no active connection available. The abbreviated labels in the Flarm Data panel have the following meaning:

SN: Serial number
RId: Radio Identifier
Sv: Severity of issue
Err: Error code
ODB: Obstacle data base version. Empty, if no data base is installed.
HW: Hardware version
Sw: Software version
Igc: IGC version. Empty on none approved IGC Flarms.

Note! If Flarm reports an error code in the framed box beside the Err: label, you can click on that error code and will get a textual description of the error code.

LogInt
Here you can define the log interval of the IGC Flarm logger. The possible setting range is 1...8 seconds. The default is set to two seconds.

Priv
Here you can set/unset the so called Stealth mode of the Flarm device. 0 means off and 1 means on. If you don't know, what it is, let it switched off (0)! That is better for your personal safety.

NoTrk
Flarm opt-out option for ground tracking (“no track”). If set, the receiving ground stations should not process or store position data of your glider. 0 means off and 1 means on.

Task
In the displayed combo box at the right side of the task label you can select a task to be flown. Preselected is the currently activated task in Cumulus. But you can change here the current task selection, if you want to do that. The new selected task will be considered as the task to be used for flying, if you upload it to the Flarm device.
A task can also be selected at the preflight task page.

Note: A taskname must be consist of pure ASCII signs out the code range 0...127. If the taskname contains other signs, e.g. umlauts, special national signs, etc., the task upload to Flarm will fail with an error message.

Read
Pressing this button will read out all available data from the Flarm device and put them in the related fields of the window.
Note, that a set IGC Task cannot be read out. That is not supported by Flarm.

Set
Pressing this button sets the data, defined in Cumulus, in the fields of this window. On request you can adapt these values to your personal needs.

Clear
Pressing this button will clear all input fields and reset the task selection.

Write
Pressing this button will upload all data from the edit fields and the selected task to the Flarm device. At the end of the upload procedure you will ask to reboot the Flarm. That is necessary to activate the just uploaded task in the Flarm device.

Close
Pressing this button will close the window.

Please note the following!

  1. Task support works only for the IGC approved Flarm devices!
  2. To get activated an uploaded task, you have to cycle the power switch of the Flarm device or to restart it via a software command respectively.

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