GeoPS User Guide
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1. 40 30 minutes GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 iii 50 4030 will result in 50 4030 degrees b Go to the Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange website http soaring aerobatics ws TP and download a set of waypoints Please take good care in selecting the proper file There are many Waypoint file formats There is only one format that is specific to the Volkslogger That is the file with the extension dbt 2 Make Route s Luckily there is only one way to do that Drag waypoints from the Waypoints list to the Routes list Please experiment a bit with this it actually works very easy Hint It does make a difference where you drop the waypoint a On top of a Route Waypoint added as last waypoint in Route b On top of a Waypoint Waypoint is replaced by new Waypoint c Between Waypoints Waypoint is inserted where it is dropped Please note that the Waypoint I actually copied and placed in the Route So changing the Waypoint in the Waypoints list does NOT change all occurrences of that Waypoint in Routes and Task GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 Declaration The last tab on this window is the Declaration Tab First what is a Declaration Remember the good old days Navigation was done using maps you know those large paper sheets which never seemed to have the proper side up The things that you always flew off of Well in that era we had to write down some sort of Flight Plan on a declaration form2. and take a photograph of that piece of paper to be able to use that flight for an official document like a Silver Gold or Diamond Badge I am Somebody I fly in This glider I want to go From Here Via There And There Back to Here Well just like trying to find a cell phone after you landed out That declaration is history In this day and age we fill in this Declaration page in GeoPS and save that in the Volkslogger Here is what a Declaration might looks like eee GeoPS Serial Port SB Ser gt Disconnect Save to Logger Logger Info Recorded Flights Routes Waypoints Declaration Pilots Plane Home Field Pilot 1 WOUTER Registration PH 846 Name TERLER ie Pilot 2 Glider type JANUS C Latitude 52 03 432 Pilot 3 Comp registration TU Longitude 005 55 400 Pilot 4 Comp class OPEN o Task Title Name Leg km Distance Bearing Latitude Longitude Line width Cyl radius Sector Sector Direction Start TERLER 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 03 432 005 55 400 25 0 0 0 TP1 TURNHT 107 7 107 7 141 2 51 17 900 004 57 117 0 600 5000 360 TP2 SMILDE 204 1 311 8 331 5 52 54 167 006 24 217 0 600 5000 360 Finish TERLER 99 5 411 3 160 7 52 03 432 005 55 400 25 0 0 0 Use Route ina Add Waypoint in Remove Waypoint J And here is how it works The easiest way is this Make at least one Route in the Routes amp Waypoints tab Click on the Declarat
3. later in this User Guide 2 There is a Check box with the name Show only flights with detected Take off The Volkslogger remembers if during recording a speed of over 40 km h about 21 5 Knots has been reached The check mark in the second column will show if this happened for that flight If you checked the Check box the GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 one with the long name GeoPS will only show the flights where the Volkslogger detected the take off 3 There is a button Download If one or more flights are selected in the list you can press this button GeoPS will ask you where the Flights files will have to be stored and the Flights will be retrieved from the logger If you checked the Secure check box the flights will be secured so that the resulting IGC contain Security Keys so that the files can be used in competitions record attempts and other official occasions 4 The Clear Flights button well uuuhh clears the flights from the Volkslogger Routes amp Waypoints The next tab is the Routes and Waypoints tab If you press this the progress bar that we met in the previous paragraph pops out again and keeps us waiting for about 45 seconds The result could look like this e GeoPS Serial Port USB y Disconnect Save to Logger Logger Info Recorded Flights Routes amp Waypoints Declaration Route Leg km Distance Bearing Latitude Long
4. you use a Keyspan adapter And switch it off when you use another brand of adapter The default value is Off so if you never touched this setting that is what it should be GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 12 Appendices Serial Ports Introduction The modern Mac every Mac produced after the introduction of the iMac in 1997 does not have serial ports As the Volkslogger is not equipped with an USB port and as far as I know no other logger is either we will have to use a USB Serial adapter Although the manufacturers are doing their best to deliver a good product these USB Serial adapters do not behave exactly like real serial ports do This also implies that one adapter may behave differently that another Luckily there are not too many variations There are some chip sets that many adapter manufacturers use Prolific is one example of this Their chipset can be found in the Sweex and IOGear adapters and probably others too Another example is MCT This is a company that makes adapters for other companies Those other companies sell them under their own names So for all those companies MCT provides the drivers but more about this shortly Trouble But that is not why you are reading this You probably want to know why GeoPS does not recognize your USB Serial adapter Let us start at the beginning You have a Mac and an USB Serial adapter but the two have never met Please read the m
5. GeoPS User Guide The Volkslogger reader for Mac Applies to GeoPS 1 0 GeoPS is in no way affiliated with Garrecht Avionik GmbH creator of Volkslogger Contents COMES ii A A A Ga 1 Purpose EOS 2 Before you start osmosis 2 REITER A A A O dos 2 A note about Serial POS A A ci 2 Usine Geo A E E R AIS E E ea E EE 3 Launching Geop Serani See E A E E E S 3 Getting the Recorded FUughts unn id 5 Ro tes e W AV POIs fete bedecsce A 6 Declaration O canes 8 A A A A A 9 A sua aen EE AAAA AEA aa iae aed ta awa AE RANTAA AETS TIE EEA 9 Tia dd 10 Keyspan Acceleration A N 11 A Esa a tits eaa nec G aera taketh amet tata ie aes talent neat a 12 ETAL POTS wos tues cisia AN 12 Introduction casitas 12 A a e ef aa 12 GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 Purpose of GeoPS GeoPS is developed to provide a basic functionality of communicating with the Volkslogger GPS logger This means that at this stage it does not feature all sorts of luxurious functionality like Offline Waypoints and Route Management Track visualization Support for other GPS s and Loggers These things may in the future be implemented but there are other means of doing that on Mac already After saying what GeoPS can t do here is what it can do Show logger serial number and hard and software versions Get the list of recorded flights from the Volkslogger Get one or more completed Flights from the logger Erase the Flights in the Volkslogg
6. anual that comes with the adapter but in general it comes down to inserting a CD or downloading a driver and installing it Reboot and you should be ready to go But still GeoPS or any other application for that matter does not see the adapter Please check the obvious first Is the cable plugged in well Please check check and double check Is the cable inserted in a USB hub o Is that hub connected well o Is the Hub powered Are you sure it is o Try inserting it in the computer or keyboard instead of in the hub Try another USB socket maybe the one you try now is broken If you tried all that and still GeoPS does not recognize the adapter please read on I have some experience with these adapters so let me write some of that down GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 13 USB_G4 This adapter is very nice very small and has 3 LEDs on it that flash beautifully when in use It has one problem the installer for the driver has a permissions problem The drivers can be downloaded from http www pfranc com usb usb mhtml drivers This site links you through to the MCT website Version 1 5 8 of the installer does not set the permissions for the files properly But do not despair there is a fix Watch out this fix requires Typing in the Unix terminal The administrator password for your computer This is what we will do 1 Launch the Terminal You can find this application in the Appl
7. er Download all Routes and Waypoints that are stored in the Volkslogger Import Waypoints from dbt files as found on the Internet Create and modify routes by dragging waypoints into the Routes Edit the Declaration easily choose a pre defined Route or add your own Waypoints Upload Routes Waypoints and the Declaration to the Volkslogger Before you start using GeoPS Requirements Mac OS X 10 2 or later A serial port A note about serial ports Macintoshes do not have Serial Ports they have USB There are many brands of USB Serial adapters on the market GeoPS has been tested with 3 brands Keyspan USB_G4 by MCT and Sweex Other adapters will probably also work but then again they may not There is more info about Serial Ports in the Appendix of this User Guide GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 Using GeoPS Launching GeoPS Launch GeoPS and you will see the following eee GeoPS Serial Port USB Serial 44 Connect F Logger Info Recorded Flights Routes Waypoints Declaration Serial number Hardware version Software version This screen shows you the following 1 The serial port drop down menu shows a serial port If more serial ports are found on the computer they will all be shown in this drop down menu Please make sure that you choose the right port before continuing If this menu is empty there is no Serial Port connected to the computer or the driv
8. ers for that device have not been installed properly There is a section that contains trouble shooting the Serial Ports in the Appendix of this User Guide 2 The Connect button is active meaning that you can try to connect to the Volkslogger Connecting to the Volkslogger If you want to connect to the Volkslogger the following steps should be taken 1 Power up the Volkslogger 2 Wait till the Volkslogger says wait for PC 09 3 Click the Connect button in GeoPS before the Volkslogger counter reaches 0 If it does unplug the Volkslogger and plug it in again GeoPS will retry a couple of times GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 If all goes well GeoPS will have established a connection with the Volkslogger in a couple of seconds The Volkslogger will show the following text in its window data transfer ready The GeoPS window will now look something like this eee GeoPS Serial Port USB Seria Disconnect Eu Logger Info Recorded Flights Routes amp Waypoints Declaration Serial number 1BA Hardware version 3 4 Software version 3 6 build 175 As you can see the following happened 1 The serial ports menu dimmed because it is now impossible to change the serial port that the Volkslogger is connected to 2 The Connect button has become the Disconnect button 3 The serial number and version info is filled in into the window GeoPS User Manual Applies to Versio
9. http www mct com tw driver html but please be aware that USB_G4 uses those drivers too and those drivers have the permissions problem that you d have to solve But I did not try this if you do please tell me what you experienced and I can add it to this User Guide Keyspan GeoPS uses a method to talk to the Volkslogger that every USB Serial adapter understands And all adapters do work exactly the same way until we write our Declaration back to the Volkslogger The Keyspan uses over 1 minute to do this GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 14 Other adapters use 20 to 25 seconds Please note that Keyspan is absolutely not to blame for this As far as I am concerned Keyspan makes the finest USB Serial on the market today So to make sure that the Keyspan users can also write their data to the Volkslogger in 20 25 seconds I put the Keyspan Acceleration setting in the preferences This way nobody needs to feel left behind Please check out the chapter on Preferences if you want to know how to use the Keyspan Acceleration Other brands There are many other brands If I find one I will try to see if it works with GeoPS If you have any experience with USB Serial adapters that might help other GeoPS users please mail that to me and I will add your findings to this User Guide GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0
10. ications Utilities folder of your computer 2 Type the following sudo su 3 The terminal will ask for a password type the administrator password for this computer This is the password that the owner of the computer uses to log in into the computer 4 Type chmod R og w System Library Extensions USBSerialDriver kext 5 And press the enter or return key 6 Type chown R root wheel System Library Extensions USBSerialDriver kext 7 And press the Enter or Return key again 8 Quit the Terminal application 9 Reboot your computer 10 Launch GeoPS and you will see GeoPS recognizes the serial port I hope Belkin F5U109 or F5U409 This is a funny one I did not try it myself but some info can be found on the Internet Belkin says they do support Mac up to and including Mac OS 9 2 2 As GeoPS requires Max OS 10 2 we are not amused Rumor has it that there are Beta versions of the drivers around but Belkin denies that From what I read on the internet the Beta drivers have the same problem as the USB_G4 so it should be solved the same way the commands on the Terminal should be exactly the same except for the driver name which is BelkinSerialDriver kext But if you are not as adventurous I would suggest you donate your Belkin to charity and invest in a proper USB Serial adapter one that has Mac OS X support Word has it that the Belkin uses MCT drivers so you might want to try the drivers from
11. ions tab GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 GeoPS will now look something like the window shown above At the bottom of the screen there is a drop down menu called Use Route Click that and select the Route that you want to fly Now fill in the top half of the screen where you fill in your names glider info and Home field This Home field is the Take Off field because that could be different from the start point in say a competition When you are done Press Save to Logger and you are ready to go Preferences So you do not like the way GeoPS works Here is how to change that In the GeoPS menu next to the menu is the option Preferences The following things can be modified Units GeoPS Units Task Keyspan Accelleration Show coordinates in the following format Distance unit O 15 35455556 km 15 21 27333 Statute Mile El 15 21 16 4 Nautical Mile F 32 4 In the Flights Directory show Time in 3 40 E GMT UTC Local Time Activates when loading Flights Cancel Defaults OK 204 1 311 8 331 5 52 54 167 006 24 217 0 600 5000 Coordinates can be shown in 3 different formats Degrees Degrees and Minutes Degrees Minutes and Seconds Distances can be measured in km Statute Miles or Nautical Miles This applies only to the distances calculated in the Routes and Task not the Line Width and Sector size
12. itude Name Latitude Longitude gt MY 400 KM 411 3 AHAU D 52 03 04 02 007 03 43 92 A AKEN T 50 46 43 92 006 14 37 92 0 AKEN W 50 43 16 02 006 07 32 94 ALPEN 51 33 52 98 006 29 22 98 ALTENR 52 02 40 02 007 26 54 00 ASCHEG 51 47 46 02 007 38 06 00 AZELOO 52 18 40 02 006 41 49 98 BALKBG 52 36 09 96 006 24 25 98 BARNED 52 10 02 94 005 33 57 00 BECKUM 51 46 46 02 008 01 57 96 BEETSW 53 03 49 02 006 03 11 94 BELFED 51 19 10 02 006 06 49 92 BOCHOT 51 50 00 00 006 37 45 00 BORGER 52 55 22 98 006 47 07 98 BORKEN 51 51 15 00 007 00 23 94 BORKEZ 51 49 46 98 006 50 57 96 Y B Es C Import As can be seen the Volkslogger did contain one Route and a bunch of Waypoints In your case the Volkslogger may contain more or less info or even no Routes and no Waypoints This problem can be resolved by performing the following steps 1 Get Waypoints There are two ways to do that a Press the button underneath the list of waypoints which is the one on the right That will give you a fresh waypoint and you can edit the name latitude and longitude by double clicking the appropriate field and typing the coordinates It does not matter how you type the coordinates GeoPS understands many different formats For instance i 50 40 30 will result in 50 degrees 40 minutes 30 seconds ii 50 40 30 will result in 50 degrees
13. n 1 0 Getting the Recorded Flights The Volkslogger might contain recordings of flights The flights are stored in files inside the Volkslogger If you want to examine that click the Recorded Flights tab GeoPS will download a list of files from the Volkslogger During the download GeoPS looks like this 206 GeoPS Serial Port Communicating with the Logger Logg ition THIS Takeoff Date Pilot Competition Registration Filename Start GMT Stop GMT Duration Show only flights with detected takeoff Clear Secure This also gives you a sneak peek at the window that will soon show you the list of all the files that have been recorded by the Volkslogger The amount of time that this takes depends on the number of files that are in the Volkslogger When GeoPS has retrieved the entire list of flights the progress bar will gracefully exit and the list of files will be shown If you take a look at the screen you will notice the following 1 Start and Stop are followed by GMT That means that the start and stop time are given in the GMT or UTC time zone As a matter of fact the Date in the third column is also shown in that Time zone This is the way the Volkslogger stores the flights But if you d prefer those three columns to be shown in your local time zone please feel free to change the setting in the Preferences window The Preferences window will be explained
14. ost other USB Serial converters Keyspan Acceleration enables GeoPS to speed up communication with the Volkslogger when connected through a Keyspan USB Serial converter Switching it on has the following implications R 1 Keyspan USB Serial Converters write the declaration at speeds comparable to other devices 2 Other brands USB Serial Converters will likely stop writing half way the declaration E This empties the Declaration and Database This might cause data loss 32 Use Keyspan Acceleration 40 bis Cancel Defaults EC 204 1 3118 331 5 52 54 167 006 24 217 0 600 5000 This is a tough one Not all USB Serial adapters are the same or behave the same I have tried to find a way that treats all USB Serial converters the same but have not found one yet The Generic way that I use to write data back to the Volkslogger works differently on Keyspan adapters when compared to most other adapters The result is that the Keyspan takes over 60 seconds to write the data to the Volkslogger while the other adapters take 20 to 25 seconds To fix this the code had to be changed to allow the Keyspan to do the write in the same time The problem is when this setting is used on an adapter that does not need the acceleration the Serial port will hang and so will GeoPS and you will end up with an empty Declaration no Waypoints and no Routes in your Volkslogger So please please use this setting only when
15. s because the Volkslogger expects the Start Line Width Sector Cylinder Radius and Sector Radius in meters and kilometers GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 10 Date and Time fields in the Recorded Flights list can be represented in GMT or Local time The fields that this affects are Flight Date Start time of first coordinate in file Stop time of last coordinate in file Task GeoPS Units Task Keyspan Accelleration Default Start Line Width 1 180 km 25 Default Sector Cylinder Radius 0 1500 m 500 ES 2 me 4 Default Sector Radius 0 15000 m 5000 E 32 401 S Cancel Defaults E 204 1 311 8 331 5 52 54 167 006 24 217 0 600 5000 When you use the Use Route option in the Declaration tab GeoPS has to guess a couple of things Start Line Width Sector Cylinder Radius Sector Radius The GeoPS preferences allow you to choose what GeoPS fills in for these values Please note that GeoPS will initially use a Line for the Start and Finish point and it will use a Sector for all Turn points but you can always change the values that GeoPS chooses if you want different values for a specific task GeoPS User Manual Applies to Version 1 0 11 Keyspan Acceleration GeoPS Units Task Keyspan Accelleration The generic way that GeoPS uses to write the Declaration and Database to the Volkslogger takes about 3 times longer on a Keyspan than on m
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