Inertial sensing in Butterfly Vario, TE vs Airmass indicators

Dale,


1. I connected my power flarm portable to the rear seat vario, and turned on the flarm designator in both units. The rear seat display worked but not the front. How do I get both to display traffic.
The peripherals settings are there to tell each unit what is directly connected. You need to switch FLARM off in the peripheral settings of the unit it is not connected to, then it will get data from the other unit.

2. Does the flarm screen with the bigX only change when traffic is near, or should it have a different screen once the Flarm is connected? In my case the rear unit switched to a flarm screen only when traffic was near. The front display never did anything.
This depends on your FLARM range. It always displays traffic that is received.

3. I tried all kinds of settings for the SC dead band, and had my rear seat passenger duplicate those settings. At no time did I achive a deadband, or notice any change at all. What am I doing wrong? What settings would you suggest for a fairly wide cruise audio dead band?
I'd suggest about 10%, but that just me. (I've heard many options on this ranging from 1 to 15%). Are you sure that your mode-switching works good (i.e. sc to var mode switching)?

4. What baud rate, and sentence should I select in the Flarm setup page?
GPS and Traffic, 38400Bd.

5. Where do I change the volume for the voice commands and alarms?
With the upper rotary knob. You can push the button to access a menu that changes all volumes (SC/VAR/Voice) independently.

Best regards
Marc