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Old June 1st 13, 09:06 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
John Carlyle
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Default PowerFLARM Flight Circles in SeeYou

On Saturday, June 1, 2013 3:42:05 PM UTC-4, John Carlyle wrote:
On Saturday, June 1, 2013 2:52:38 PM UTC-4, Eric Greenwell wrote:

John Carlyle wrote, On 6/1/2013 7:23 AM:


I was using SeeYou to compare flights recorded with my Volkslogger


with those from my PowerFLARM core, to see if there were any


discrepancies. The position recordings overlay very nicely.




But some of the flight traces from the PowerFLARM core (v3.0


firmware)have little blue circles on them. These blue circles are


definitely not marking places where I got FLARM collision warnings


(these don't seem to be plotted at all). Sometimes there's just one


circle, but mostly there are two or three. Their spacing varies from


2 up to 10 seconds.




Does anyone know what these circles are depicting?








I see those, and I wonder if they are Pilot Event (PEV) marks, because


they look like what I remember getting with my 302 when I had a PEV


button connected. I ocasionally press and hold the button on the display


for my Core when I'm trying to access the menu. I wonder if that is


produces a "Pilot Event"?




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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to




That may be it, Eric. The recording interval near the blue dots does increase to a 1 sec interval from my normal 4 sec interval, like a Pilot Event should create. I looked in the PowerFLARM v3.03 Display Manual, but there isn't any mention of Pilot Event, so I've no idea what action causes the dots. However, I do remember changing the radar range at the blue points on my flight. Maybe I twisted or pushed one or both knobs on my 57 mm Butterfly display?



-John, Q3


Eric, Thanks to your response I can confirm that there are indeed PEVs in my PowerFLARM IGC file at the exact times the blue dots appear. Now the question is, how did I cause them?

-John, Q3