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1. M 39 SS OU pe eK 39 COD ID aote Metcosnt Men eese itte NEUE D se MIU NEN MEE uM MINUM RESCUE 39 Nearest Daec 22 0 AOIEDORIS ttes bt aic O incu ood E c cm cd Arca CU e SEL esc Ut a esi umen 39 Touchscreen Gestures for Nearest Pages 3 oie pos eet enne he ore ERU P Lo Pup bie e Vago hero E e uU ND La duo E me RE ud 40 Nearest Pase 2 2 LindaDle S odo eire oaaioa ti ple peo dad ba eate loup sat e e Up e Puis san ER RS egeta Saepe ROC 4 Nearest Page 2 TUrpoltfibsuussodta eiecit ia Rateb Hi a LOL DE DAP Re sau eemseeiacenas 42 Sorne modes inside Nearest Pages a ioo metier vcerb babe Me ouo da Re Op E E ie oou MULA E RE ce re UE EE 43 Screech Mode Ce OAS desee ceo afe buste eoo P ea E geb pst AA 44 Commons Pace dell C OmtmODS 2 5 iris sec Ob Saree ae atten bsec NEU ead E etu ari Id pes Apu Let ett di 44 Commnols P386 IG CON yeh pestle edu ran Bee octets cdd bom fedt red at etcodl onere 45 LKMAPS enhanced terrain and TOpOlO GY uos racine te Read e pae ee DUE eb aeuo e eu Paene su ou onu TL RD E 46 DOWNLOADING LKMAPS AND INSTALLING THEM eene 47 AUTOMATIC DECLUTTERING OF LABELS cninn e a 47 CONFIGURING LKMAPS FOR YOUR DEVICE 251i robe A a aiane 48 Confeurc topology INCOM sae a teni etd icm Maire 48 AURA e heen ees 49 ENABLE DISABEE LABELS ON THE FEY 5 tuo ee RR EDEN ER a etUev each 50 LKMA
2. LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda A landable waypoint is painted with or without a box around together with a value This value can be an Arrival Altitude or the Requested Efficiency at your choice You can choose it inside Appearance menu as well in Landables Value 85 Declutter Landables Disabled With no decluttering all landables are painted with their values Uo cu 1 Corte In this example with plenty of spare height we have a lot of landables that are visible The problem is that outlandings are painted together with airports even if our arrival altitudes on airports is positive everywhere o0 why paint the values for outlanding s yh dies mer i ir om ni RM aalupo 1767m 2i i Alt Dis Reg E 2429 Set decluttering Low and no outlanding will be painted close to airports if it is obvious that you have plenty of margins to get onto a real airfield LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 86 Declutter Landables High a S a HA it a a 7 A V ur i ae alipo ML Dc oe PRA k ET HBAR P YT eI 2829 400 1250 92 High Decluttering will consider your altitude your glide ratio the number of airfields around the arrival altitude over them to decide what to paint If you happen to be very high on ground such as in this example LK will not paint values almost at all In this example only the Home airport is shown since
3. 0 0 MANUAL IBOX in landscape and portrait modes The biggest limitation of IBOX mode is that you must choose in advance which values have to be painted for each flight status cruise thermal final glide and auxiliary In portrait mode you can have 8 values painted while in InfoPages there are 4 pages of 16 values and one of them is fully configurable as well In IBOX mode some of the values can be selected and changed For example while running the simulator mode clicking on ALT ibox and the using up down arrow or virtual keys will change the altitude Apart from this the native LK modality is much more flexible and practical during flight To access IBOX you can get here from Screen Views or as a shortcut long click on the aircraft menu in the bottom right part of moving map if you have configured a custom key to do so To get back to LK view you do the same again So you can switch to IBOX and LK mode in a second LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 32 Screen mode InfoPages Short clicking on the center of Bottom Bar will toggle between moving map InfoPages nearest pages and common pages Each of these modes has pages LK remembers which page you were looking at in each screen mode When you toggle screen modes you will be brought back to the page you had previously selected There are 5 InfoPages Each InfoPage has 16 values which are predefined You don t need to configure anything
4. The distance made in the configured period of time divided by the altitude lost since then Negative values are shown as OO infin and indicate climbing cruise height gain Over 200 this value is shown as OO too You can configure the period of averaging in the System Config menu Suggested values for this configuration are 60 90 120 Lower values will be closed to Instant Efficiency and higher values will be closed to Cruise efficiency efficiency from the last thermal Notice that the distance is NOT the straight line between your old and new position it is exactly the distance you have made even in a zigzag glide This value is not calculated while circling 124 ADDENDUM No addendum pages in this document LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 125 TVG OCC TOT NR T T 2 EE SOOOVS XG SOAP anaa E 2 Changes TOn prO VOUS VeLSIOIIS aena E 3 Translat oS A caatansenaete da nesauretn ada eetaeeence 3 dS Ariana 18 1 COMICS cuisses vu e R A E Isa ga M steele 3 OBAMA EM E DU UR TRUE 3 BODO EL CCE IC PCS a das ease aia ce Ud Mam Usted ce Uds HA Mame LIU s ea Td u teo de ac UR LOU s leaner 4 SUD DORE SCE cT SONON a edo eaae c RN Vou EU RUD dona R D db UD edu OR Ua nah eee C LOQUOR OUR METUO CER DOR 4 Landscape vs Formit TRHOGG s sexe rales xe eite eau meae ttd lori u texit Venu suEtu las tal copiar duda db t euPnUt asa 5 Istat SO or asia nya cere E E
5. VENTUROSA 36 8 4 707 CORNA MAR 7 7 118 40 1737 TL Avg GS Alt Dis Req E 1 9 144 2807 34 8 14 3 Enter system config menu 11 Appearance and select KENEEN the Turnpoint filter It can be Basic eae 40 Landables icon Alternate e Nolandables Landables style Boxed with ur All waypoints Landables value ArrivalAltitude e DAT Turnpoints Inverse b w colors JON Waypoints Text style Values white Overlays color Black Turnpoints filter Hide units No Landables will not include in this list all turnpoints that are also landable and thus already part of pages 2 1 or 2 2 This is the default setting All waypoint will include also landables that you already have listed in 2 1 and 2 2 DAT Turnpoints will include only waypoints that have a T flag This may be useful to people using Winpilot s DAT waypoint files It has no effects if you are using SeeYou CUP files because CUP waypoints are all marked with a T flag LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 42 Sorting modes inside Nearest pages ALBENZA 16 6 150 ALTINO 8 4 16 ARALALTA 22 6 154 46 BRONZONE ARERA 17 9 101 BALLERINO BALLERINO 15 2 14 3 ALTINO BLELLO 15 1 176 16 2 VAL CAVAL BRONZONE 20 3 B i TORKEZZO j CANCERVO 17 9 153 s 957 GUGLIELMO _ 32 4 TL Avg GS Alt jis eq l TL Avg GS Alt 2 2 119 1731 T ud 136 1678 2 3 TPS
6. fi EC M i Y E x F Arcis ate i JE Eg am b NM uuum Varese 7mlnsiome 54 Rovellasca 524r gt teea FRA AT ia E a BestAlternate Alzate 20km ff BestAlternat Lugano 24km HBAR QFE ARAGL FL IHG HBAR QFE AIRAGL 1100 973 43 1100 822 43 x Unless you have disabled all sounds in LK or have disabled Warnings for the BestAlternate there are two sounds you should take care of announcing a message on screen e asoft bell sound announcing that the landing target has changed e a double alert croak sound announcing that you are under a safe glide for the closest known landing place or that there are no landing places around at all These sounds will play only if you are at least 250 meters over the safety altitude If you set for example 300m as Safety altitude over an airport then below 550m there will be NO sounds at all We assume that the pilot knows he is in trouble at that height or that he is simply landing or taking off LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 9 How does the BestAlternate think BestAlternate tries to be smart selecting the best choice just like you would do during the flight 1 LK8000 looks around getting a preliminary list of landing points within your gliders best LD minus the SAFETY altitude Example you are at 1300MH safetyaltitude is 300m your glider has best LD 40 search range is 1000m 40 40km The distance is approx
7. E AS o SYS6 System info Battery xBatli Sat A e Battery is showing percentage of internal battery left if this information is available from your hardware It is followed by the letter C when under CHARGE and D when DISCHARGING Example 89 C or 72 D e External Battery 1 if connected to an external device providing battery information this is the voltage of such device e Satellites in view by GPS Followed by A if using GPS on port 1 and B if using GPS data from port B See the FALLBACK mechanism later LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 19 Screen mode Moving Map You are now in the main LK screen which is fully configurable See chapter Map Overlays for a detailed description of all fields and how you can select which information you want to be displayed The following picture is showing all overlays activated and the screen is cluttered with information It is only an example Some of this information is appearing only when a destination is selected a go to otherwise some of the information is not painted at all En Eid m CR SNC Pn 7 Barr Alt Dis 229 12 9 The moving map can be shown in three kinds of views Screen Views in menu e Moving map with overlay the one above e Moving map in Pan Mode e Moving map with Infoboxes Moving Map touchscreen can be Standard or Active LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 20 STANDARD map touchscreen
8. Valbrembo LKHOME IT 4543 403N 00935 710E 229 0m 5 20 680 0m 122 600 e You are loading WAYNOTES TXT and you have configured HOME there You can find WAYNOTES TXT inside the Waypoints subfolder it is simple text readable with instructions at the beginning e You are loading new files and previously you had an home which is also available inside one of those files This last feature generally is often accomplished so you should not lose home airport anymore starting from version 1 20 of LK8000 If you have set HOME in several waypoints the last one read from the last waypoint file will be used If you are using WAYNOTES as well its home will prevail LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 70 TAKEOFF Virtual waypoint and Home waypoint While on ground a virtual TAKEOFF waypoint is generated in the waypoint list This waypoint is updated in position and altitude until not moving over takeoff speed TAKEOFF is considered a TURNPOINT and thus all calculations are made as for a Turnpoint MC safety altitude configured etc TAKEOFF is NOT considered a landing point It is a very good final destination for final glides to landing because the altitude will be automatically set to the real QNH and because no safety altitude may be used in turnpoints e Gliders if no Home waypoint has been assigned then TAKEOFF waypoint is elected as Home automatically e Paragliders Delta Home waypoint is automatically assig
9. While the moving map is active you can LEFT UP RIGHT UP zoom in and out simply clicking on top KEY KEY and lower part of map area on the screen ZOOM IN LEFT UP and RIGHT keys require a longer click click count one release These keys will be custom keys in the ZOOM OUT next software release By now in 1 22 they are assigned to predefined actions LEFT KEY CENTER KEY RIGHT KEY AIRCRAFT as follows Landscape zoom outlook LEFT UP key click longer click count one release will zoom out at 7km map scale for 20 seconds It is good for a quick outlook on the map for position reporting during XC flights After this time zoom will be back to the previous map scale 849 13 31 05 oe tk PESE He Fi dm LANDSCAPE ZOOM GS e Or 229 34 0 xc CH N Dis Q 229 34 0 Zoom out scales are different for gliders and para and cannot be agjusted In addition during those 20 seconds of zoom out you can click again on the upper left corner to dismiss the function and be immediately back to normal zoom LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 21 UTM position reporting for PG Delta pilots Paragliding Delta mode offers also RIGHT UP key which is in the upper right corner of the screen over the compass indicator click longer click count one release This function is available for emergencies to report an accident location and it displays your current position both as
10. de LK8000 Tactical Flight Computer User Manual Preliminary Documentation Software version 1 22 Date 2010 08 05 Version 2b Language English Author P Ventafridda Revised by A Broadribb C 2010 Paolo Ventafridda All Rights Reserved Introduction LK8000 vs XCSoar LK8000 is based on XCSoar software www xcsoar org at version 5 2 3 9 which then became the 5 2 4 version contributed since the 5 2 2 release adding the Alternates and BestAlternate functions the VisualGlide and the whole support for PNA devices car navigators In the XCS software at that time many bugs were existing at all levels With the help of the betatester community on the www postfrontal com forum we have been able to find and correct most of those old problems About 500 pilots participated in this bug hunting phase in late 2009 making version 1 18a a proven stable release Version 1 20 was a step forward with innovative functions and 1 22 is even more rich in functionalities with traffic pages and new topology Credits are due to all of the 5 2 2 XCSoar developers You can find their names on the XCSoar official website Although based on XCS the LK is now very different software The old code was completely rechecked and eventually corrected The user interface was totally redesigned and rewritten from scratch Many new features were added among them the new LKMAPS Paragliding and Delta support was added LK is not compatible with
11. BestAlternate waypoint Alternate 1 waypoint Alternate 2 waypoint Task waypoints starting from the current destination oRWON During flight all the important waypoints are listed here You can keep under your eyes all numbers at once Landables home task Waypoints here cannot be sorted Of course if it happens that your home waypoint is also the bestalternate it will be painted only once The same for tasks points You are assured that all of them are listed nevertheless LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 44 Commons Page 3 2 History 3 2 HIST 1 1 Dist BLELLO TL Avg GS Alt 1 9 135 2751 Just like in many GPS units such as the Garmin s every time you are doing a Go To a waypoint this waypoint is saved by LK inside an history list This list is then saved to disk and it will survive software restart The history waypoints are listed in inverted chronological order the latest inserted is the first to be shown When you insert a waypoint already in this list it is moved to the first position You cannot remove waypoints from history since they are automatically removed when they exceed the maximum number normally around 40 When you change waypoint files from System Config menu the history is reset The history file inside the _Configuration directory cannot be edited manually LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 45 LKMAPS enhanced terrain a
12. Landables and dec Mittens 520 dup E vic Pene a S 85 I andables Styles ANG y ANUS S z coodosc ere c E dad masa pigeat Po aqu pae Re a Tad nasa gehe Duda esu pei ae 85 Dechutter Landables Disa led seseina e E stenasenienielaiaaesamceiehateets 86 Declutter Landables LO Wuissuetuesetvuns rrean seas a basi aie a 86 Declutter Landa Bes Gin i iii LR 87 beyondi colors dnd number Sosiri nna mte obsita IRR sacri Foam istoc esr O Sepe smt tamara Tara du 87 AVILA Made Exp TB QCIO BO o Eee pde Ncque Ore ae Rin tus fo Sonn RRS Rene Tera cU un a oma un e ban 88 Obstacles and Red Crosses on the moving Tap uc saa eei veo Ene Rees cased dt aii ccd Rene ute diene ERR ore wie Huan Ud 89 INOtes lt O1n ODstacle Cale Ul Atom 2530 2 E E E de eut desto AEE 90 BETAN i A suonare E A du NES quudes cH e is amets 91 Flow does the Best Alternate Tnk ksn A tutos dat baia dieto micas 02 Thnk I ad vate o sto coe ete cA tedio on Haero bud eM tedio Saec oibus eMe tod iden Saec itu eds 93 Takeo and Landing dete cOElo soos ooo toot ot rp otn pe eeu on aste uU Dre eeu Fat tu negas talxeile di dede uacua id rud 94 Battery Mna ery tC 95 Battery W abies AU LOM orsin ncaa man ceersneec thio Due ta tue seauneiecd a tea seu MIL M EDI ested 95 SAV a Be EB Oa E OTE Om ene Ree voce Oe Lem de pan E ere ee 96 Trage Wind Calculation yl eese eai SPA Ne eta rent tons heasngaeuaa CU Sdvevaetantneedhsenata aise bivanaaiwatensaes 98 Tae VV ATG C ontre
13. altitude Or if you don t care about GPS use baro altitude as stated above DigiFly Leonardo LK8000 fully supports Digifly Leonardo Pro BT at the latest firmware release dated February 2010 Telemetry is available either through serial RS232 or BlueTooth serial If you are using Bluetooth remember to unplug the serial cable If you are using a serial cable remember to disable Bluetooth on the device In ADV SETTINGS choose Telemetry mode FL1 for normal flight usage with samples at 1hz one sample per second Do not choose FL2 in current LK8000 version Check that you are not using CAR mode otherwise no air telemetry is sent out of course LK8000 is receiving from Leo GPS position GPS altitude Barometric altitude Vario and battery information Optionally if your Leo is equipped with external sensors IAS and Netto Vario are received LK8000 does NOT use Leo s values for wind calculation and ground efficiency since it has its own calculations You will thus be able to read wind values both from Leo and LK8000 each one calculating it independently The same for GR glide ratio Battery information is available in infobox External Battery 1 and 2 e EXT BATT 1 will report voltage on the main lithium battery e EXT BATT 2 will report voltage on the backup AA battery Baro Altitude is received from Leo and compared to corresponding QNH We are using Altimeter n 1 If you did not change QNH on the Leo i e you did not adjust the
14. simply clicking until you can listen to the higher click It works the same as on some digital watches to let you know you are at the beginning of a menu Tones are incremental and it is easy to find a particular stripe of NAVBOXES once you get used to them Each stripe of NAVBOXES is named on the right lower part of the map near the zoom level The first and default stripe is called NAV1 Then you will find ALT2 STA3 TSK4 ATN5 SYS6 CRU7 FINS AUX9 Plus a hidden stripe called TRMO is available only while thermalling circling As you can see each stripe is named both with three letters and a number so after some usage of LK8000 you will easily remember their position and you will be able to select them without even looking at the screen starting from the first one In total there are thus 10 5 50 values 60 values on some devices oome of these stripes cannot be configured some other are configurable Configurable stripes are TRMO CRU7 FIN8 AUX9 Their values are configured inside system menu configuration pages 16 17 18 19 Those 16 17 18 19 pages let you configure up to 9 choices ordered 1 to 9 NAVBOXES will use the first 5 or 6 on hires devices These configurations are also used for CUSTOM INFOPAGES 1 4 1 2 oee the INFOPAGE documentation LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 17 NavBoxes stripes NAV1 Navigation Last Thermal Average value Ground speed Altit
15. that s considered special being the place you want to come back to If you get lower on terrain values will gradually become visible Sometimes LK8000 will choose to let you see on the map a particular place far away to let you know you can make it over there and five minutes later will let you notice another place which is becoming almost unreachable In other words if there is nothing really important to be shown on map LK will try to find for you more interesting things than obvious places concerning landables Beyond colors and numbers A landing icon or symbol can be green or red orange showing the arrival altitude or the requested efficiency Colors and numbers are both important You may have a positive arrival altitude but an orange icon because of terrain obstacles or because the glide ratio at the same time is telling to the LK8000 that something is not good and it is better to be cautious You must understand that estimations are just guesses and that you are supposed to interpret colors and values and then take a decision You must and we repeat it again you must perfectly know how these estimations are calculated So read the following pages very carefully LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 87 Arrival Altitude Explanation oome pilots prefer to use the Requested Efficiency value to estimate their glide path to destination Some other pilots just love to read the altitude arrival
16. 1 6 Dist VAL CAVAL 126 31 9 987 TAI 14 6 153 TAKEOFF 14 3 1159 10 5 4993 PADERNOD 25 6 1559 POIETO 35 929 11 215 ALTINO 71 9 ALTINO 5 Z2 fe 1 47 BLELLO 16 4 155 CANTOALTO 6 7 1379 13 35 CORNA MAR 12 5 170 MISMA 65 3 13 343 UBIONE 13 0 180 SANTONIO 10 0 1629 15 J6 RONCOLA 15 5 177 19 CORNA MAR 12 1 153 16 0 439 SANTONIO 10 4 1609 160 BN GS Alt Dis ag E TL Avg GS Alt 12 2 135 1647 ee Ce abe E Each nearest page APTS LNDB TPS can be sorted independently by e name e distance e requested efficiency e altitude arrival To sort by Name click on the TPS or APT or whatever aside the screen page number For Distance ordered click on Dist for Direction on Dir etc When you switch between Nearest pages the old sort order is remembered for each page Notice that sorting by Direction will let you know instantly what s in front of you LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Screen Mode Commons The Common pages are meant to list all waypoints that are pertinent to the daily usage or to previous flights The basic idea is that you should have available this information simply because you have already selected it for some reason There are currently two common pages the COMMON itself and the HISTORY page Commons Page 3 1 Commons TL Avg GS 1 9 134 Page 3 1 is very practical You will find here Home waypoint
17. 1 M Goya gi Paloseg icu T E Alt Dis ReqE rael High decluttering will check that labels are separated by even more space and thus some of them are not painted at all You will need to zoom in further in order to view more details Since topology labels are printed AFTER waypoints higher decluttering levels will separate waypoints labels a lot almost giving priority to topology labels Paderno D Adda TL Avg Alt leq E It s your choice 229 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 84 Landables and decluttering Landables symbols are always painted on the map with no exceptions Outlandings and Airfields Airports have slightly different symbols but they are always painted with the same color orange for unreachable waypoint green for reachable waypoint You can change the landable s symbols inside System Config menu 11 Appearance By default LK is using the Alternate symbols which are visible in these pictures 11 Appearance Glider position 40 O Landables icon Landables style Landables value Inverse b w colors ON Waypoints Text style Values white Overlays color vinis UTardmnicaluuesNolandables ide units or Style Boxed Value Arrival Altitude otyle Unboxed Value Arrival Altitude Text Style Values white o vtoctiSri l E Style Unboxed Brivio 1152m Value Arrival Altitude Text Style All Black Style Boxed Value Efficiency
18. LCD green Configure Topology Max labels Button Configure Topology available only when LKMAPS are loaded allows you to set a zoom limit for showing some items Attention zoom value is always approximated and generally lower than the real value shown on the map Topology Zoom Levels For example Water labels are lakes and river s names In some world regions there are hundreds of WAGE 990 very small lakes resulting in a lot of labels being printed Big roads Weciimercces 4 0 Default settings are for general purpose LKMAPS In Small roads defaults Water labels appear always up to 99km zoom Rail roads Practically they will be always on You can set this Big cities value to 5 and at 10km zoom they won t appear Or Median cities you can set to O zero and they will NEVER be printed on screen Small cities 60 1 Smaller cities LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 48 If you are reporting slow performance issues on your device after loading a new LKMAP then you may consider choosing a smaller topology file to start For example loading full topology for all Germany or all France is not a good idea unless you have a fast device such as an HP314 Again a Fast device is not necessarily using a fast CPU HP314 has a 600mhz processor which is shared with the GPS chipset also HX4700 has a 400mhz dedicated CPU However HP314 is over 100 faster than HX4700 no matter it is also drawing on
19. LEARN SE Dae 66 oa Pe Mer TRCAPEIC PAOE 4 2 as estesa esc E a aM MUR RE CI ux ius 67 Multiple waypoints formats n D KS000 ire ope arene e hr a ee PoEReE uu enon ieee ieee 68 Waypoint Names Task Waypoints History Waypoints eeeeessessssesseeeeenennnnee nennen eene 69 DEC VOU APO UM FUIS ETE I TET EIU IT I I T ER 69 COMPEGPS Waypoint Uleg deri rinse me daetis e desi meeedetege a e teri tu a sape ME Dao Re LAE RS Ora ede bnc ts 70 Changing Waypoint files and Home Waypoint eeeeeseessssssseeeeeeneneee nennen nnne nnnn nenne 70 TAKEOFF Virtual waypoint and Home waypoint sseseeeeeeseeeeeeee enne eene nnn nnne eene nnns 71 Waypoint selection with the smart alpha TIltet i erede eed dehet ue teur et te eod de ont eese T2 Movie VEAP OVGA YS ER T TR 74 Map back sround Color With no terrain ose tovto oodd E iene TI Cha neme oyeriay s COLO iae a aE aaa 79 d nn C EMT ita 80 Estimated IAS NettoVario and Speed To Fly explained ecccccccccccceeeeeeeeeceeeeeeaaeeseeeeeeeeeeaeeeeeees 82 Maip ADCS declutter e a decode dset aub vetb no cedent disputo odo seta vetio ul asses dans utu index 83 Dechiticr waypoints DISdDIeU ii ER EUH astu UR EH aim E ates ence ee avec 84 PS CITES Way ports LOW cane setae arg eei da Extat odii iran a merle ntact ate led iran ae uti a Pee apud 84 Deeclutter Way point STi Oe ooo osea nien Dist ta dude a entnaas ied z a um once oS Diez quee eaa umi 84
20. MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 89 Now at 3129m QNH we know that we are stil missing something to get bud through BIST At these distances values are approximated so rounding errors in calculations may lead to discrepancies between first and last obstacles But since we are calculating using a guessed MC as well it is not that important And finally at 3329m we have green icon as predicted We shall arrive PIS 1423m over the destination at MCO 50 4 ALT E 3329 10922ft al NETTO Notes on Obstacle calculation If the far obstacle can be painted in current map zoom issue then it is painted with the real altitude difference needed to arrive over the obstacle If the altitude difference is not painted then this number is less than 50m and you are still far away from obstacles This number in fact is rounded with 50m precision Then the first obstacle is painted with a red cross too and the arrival difference is written only if meaningful When you are near obstacles less than 5km away the altitude difference is shown even if showing only a few meters ALL CALCULATIONS on obstacles can consider safetyMC depending on how you set it in Safety Factors system configuration does safety altitude mode apply for Landables only or for all turnpoints o0 if you are gliding towards a landable place SafetyMC will apply If you are gliding towards a non landable WP and you have chosen to use SafetyMC only
21. Manager v1 On PNA PDA version not on PC version battery is constantly checked automatically and warnings are given about its status e f you plug unplug the external power supply a message is given on screen immediately Following messages are given only once and at least after 5 minutes have passed since the last warning if Battery status changed from discharging to charging Battery is 10096 charged Battery discharge is at 3096 Battery discharge is at 2096 Battery discharge is at 1096 warnings are repeated every 2 minutes Battery discharge is at 596 warnings are repeated every minute with additional CROAK sound there are no frogs aboard it s your LK Battery manager is NOT operative in the first 30 seconds after startup This is needed to let the internal battery settle its charge Thus if you plug unplug power supply during this initial period of time no messages will appear The Battery is charging message is given only if the battery is REALLY recharging If you have plugged power supply but the battery does not charge there are either problems with power supply example HP314 not receiving enough current or with the battery itself which could be exhausted These messages are related to the internal PDA or PNA battery not to external devices You may look at external device s battery status through xBatt1 and xBatt2 information Battery Warnings autolimiter Battery messages are now limited to a max of
22. Sy E LT rh See NAVA REDPAYI Dis Reg LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 90 As soon as you enter a thermal the display is switched to thermal mode with a different zoom level and colors are shown 10 43 56 M During thermalling even if you zoom out a lot colors are a i always painted 1 0 3 kh UKIT LR MOTEEHIA N TC Gain TC 30 C Avg Th All oClimb x 6 0 3 O0 1 0 2 1 The snailtrail can be customized in width and length inside System Config menu 3 During the flight you can dynamically change the trail size using the Trail button inside menu DISPLAY 3 3 Short Long Full and Off are available in sequence The Full option will not display the whole flight only the last hour or so LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Sl Estimated IAS NettoVario and Speed To Fly explained Most of us do not have an IAS sensor connected to the LK8000 nor accelerometers We simply have a ground speed and hopefully a barometric altitude Nevertheless LK8000 will try to estimate the indicated air speed you are reading on the analog airspeed indicator To do so ground speed is corrected for the wind and then it is compensated for the air density at your current altitude NettoVario is assuming that you have such an IAS while looking at your glider s sink rate This sink rate is then added to the current vario value If you are sinking at 1 4m s
23. TC Avg TRAI 471 0 0 1 3 1 4 vatli WindB Windy Brg 85 39 2 257 C Gain TC 30 Ie Th All Climb 471 0 0 41 3 41 4 85 Custom page is special because all of its values can be configured inside Setup System accessible from Config 2 3 These values reflect as well the NavBoxes values So you only need to configure them once First 8 values are the Auxiliaries boxes and they are steady Next 8 values are dynamically shown depending on the flight status e During cruise mode they are the CRUISE boxes e During Thermalling they are the Thermal boxes e During final glide they are of course the final glide boxes You can change the flight status also manually from Menu Display 2 3 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 7 Info Page 1 5 Turn Rate Indicator 1 5 Turn Experimental 10 29 55 Bank Trk 43 p n erAS 101 V 106 Alt T Jf RUE 2 4 TC Gain TC 30 TC Avg Th All SeClimb 38 1 6 1 7 1 8 10 The TRI Turn Rate Indicator is reporting your banking status estimated acceleration and estimated airspeed It s all estimated if you don t have real accelerometers and real airspeed sensors The estimated Air Speed is calculated using the Ground Speed corrected for your altitude air density and for the estimated wind speed and direction in real time It should not be used for attempting any IFR flight However if you ever will be loosin
24. TE Oak te date esac cate ea e UU ME neat ence een Lem oU SIR e RUM a En A 2 Screem views dm MOYIne Mapress ie Eterna buea A SE ud diets canons e daEeo fears 27 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 126 Scieem VIEWS Deb Napa pd EN MEME MEC MI T ME MIU EIAS 28 Change position of the glider and screen orientation during flight eeeeeeeeeeessess 28 s whats NORTH SMAR T uos aient ito a sins a iei E oie deo secos dS eo MESE 20 Screen View PAUNCIBOOG a eeictatiodteb at Ete d erta se bsi ae ues S 30 SIM mode only change position of the aircraft on the moving map ssssssssssoeerssssssssseersssssssseerees 30 Doreen Vie ws TD CuI OU iier EE Osee ie Pate Mei aS 22 screen mode InfoPd96S asocio ron rane ous b on Mondo von rane bus di acri bau deda vea tuo bou diaria Duda ead rau eut 33 IntoP asce LI CISU DSE iot et Roe besoin C an tabe S opis ta sc e Ce errr e dS T pinea SUE 33 Touchscreen Gestures dor LATOR ACCS cose oi bled sa t niue oda dis blke Dana dtuvei sued Oft aqu namie Tuae dt 34 Into asccb Die rin al osuere Ca epe de ratem CI EM d m MEC E Md TU M 35 Wop e EST Ske ON TS TO Te 36 Ho Pareta CistoNnseia e E dde es uou da e au a esas tut 37 Into Pasee L5 Puri ate Bidie aO ea a osa ue tetdded sitae ica E iate 38 Seek Mode Near Ue anite tete Dictas abate Dub tete tra ec lao oe eee Segara a pea aa 39 Airports and Landablesin waypoint Tes uie uei de no Br Uere e dero iin tide aia 39 bouge m
25. a Coma Marcia m KD iis a 9 8 IE T Brivio 830 albrembo 1000 3km a m NAVAL TL Avg GS Alt M Req E m 127 1329 11 1 9 8 38 GS ADE RS 12 7 1329 11 10 d With no terrain displayed LK will use black overlays on light backgrounds and white overlays on dark backgrounds to achieve the best possible screen contrast o0 in this example the LCD green background has automatically forced a black color for overlays With the dark grey background all values are painted white SS il From Menu Display 3 3 you can change j j in real time the background color by boob K 88 Molinasco LICE clicking on the Topo Back button E Castelloreg This button is enabled only when no terrain is displayed otherwise you wouldn t notice any difference You will be able to toggle all colors changing the best one for your current light conditions The background color is also used as background for the analog Variometer LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda TI At the same time you can use the Invert Text button to reverse screen colors With topology only it will reverse the Bottom Bar color and at the same time attempt to change overlays again There are a lot of possible combinations for all kinds of light conditions and it is very easy to change them and experiment also during the flight LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 78 C
26. a much larger screen 800x480 So do not make assumptions on speed until you have checked other devices too The same applies for small towns and small roads if your LKMAPS have them Of course you may choose to display small towns up to 10km zoom like bigger towns as well Max labels This value is set to 70 by default In this case up to 70 labels can be printed on screen if there is space for them the decluttering engine will decide this Max labels is controlling both waypoints and topology labels Landables are not controlled by this value although they are accounted You may want more labels for example because you have changed font size of labels In this case raise the value up to 100 Max 100 labels can be printed on LK8000 It is way too much to make it any good in our opinion A good choice may be 50 Try yourself experiment judge and then decide what s best for your screen and for you own eyes of course Placing this value to 0 will disable printing topology and waypoints labels LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 49 ENABLE DISABLE LABELS ON THE FLY Menu Display 1 3 has the Labels button llc ES 5 Itis a rotary button by clicking on it you will ANZ d DELLARIOM OW M9 5 1 al ZA ES H 8da e Show only waypoints and no topology labels e Show only topology and no waypoints labels e Hide all labels excepted landables e Show all labels which is the default m j N TS m S TA pn r
27. a short click is enough to trigger an action Seldom used actions or custom actions require a longer click Here is an easy way to test click timings e short click is just a quick touch just like when you are testing if something is very hot e medium click normally is around 0 5 to 1 second To achieve that click on say count one and then release your finger e long click normally is around 2 seconds To achieve that click on say count 1 count 2 and then release your finger By default the main Moving map page is configured like this and we shall use the following terminology LEFT UP RIGHT UP KEY KEY ZOOM IN ZOOM OUT TL x es jaca 34 0s A LEFT KEY CENTER KEY RIGHT KEY AIRCRAFT KEY There are four main screen modes in LK8000 Moving map InfoPages Nearest pages Common pages Optionally if you have a traffic advisor connected FLARM or DSX a fifth screen mode is available e raffic pages Screen modes are changed by short clicking the center key on the Bottom Bar MN 1 J JR pi li E awl TA LOTR SHO RT CLICK HERE iat Se HGPS a R QFE CHE 1209 m a 447 gt 39 max A short click on the Center Key of the Bottom Bar will change Moving Map page to Info Page then to Nearest pages Common pages Traffic pages if available and then back to the Moving map Page rotation is very fast and it is followed by a sound Incremental tones will let you
28. at 100kmh on a DG300 for example the netto will be 1 4m s 0 6m s 0 8m s No TE Total Energy is estimated so if you pull up or push down the estimated Netto will be more wrong Normally you don t have a vario available as well So we calculate this value using the altitude difference during time If you have no barometric altitude GPS altitude will be used The latter is not that accurate Vario this way is not only inaccurate but most importantly it is 1 to 2 seconds late because it is based on an altitude measured in the past seconds The estimated Netto Vario is thus good only for the snail trail and for minor internal calculations and you should not count on it for anything else The Speed To Fly reflects the Netto Vario problematics LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 82 Map Labels decluttering A common problem on moving map displays is that the screen is often covered with too many waypoint labels At low zoom level the map is plain unreadable being covered of symbols and names LK8000 has a new waypoint labelling approach which will paint important labels first and avoid painting unnecessary information Moreover waypoints can be painted differently and on inverted colors Depending on the screen size and brightness and how far the device is positioned from the pilot it is possible to choose the best combination of parameters to let information be always visible First of all ordina
29. can thus plan a very fast start from a thermal even some minutes before the gate is open and LK will warn him if arrival is estimated too early With LK Time Gates a pilot can plan a race start exactly 1 second after the gate is open When seconds matter a lot LK will help a lot Configuring Time Gates Time Gates are available for Paragliders when running a real task that is a task with more than 1 turnpoint not a single and simple goto They are configurable from Paraglider s config menu 23 e This configuration applies for all tasks it is not task related e Time gates are working ONLY for cylinders e Setting 0 to the number of Tsk Time gates will disable this feature This is the default With no time gates a pilot can start when he wants LK will assume any time is good for a start 23 Paragliders Delta specials Tsk Time gates is the number of gates Oler nA ENES Standard 0 means no gates disabled Cruise Zoom 40 Tsk start time is the start time opening Tsk time gates a time of the first gate Tsk start time h12 goo Gates interval is the time interval in eri ENTILIN30m minutes between gates Sele IN Exit Last gate will be open of course until this interval has passed But once the last gate interval has gone no more gates are available and a start cannot be made anymore Start OUT IN is the cylinder crossing mode either from OUTside to INside or the opposite e OUT Enter f
30. card reader Always close all software on the PDA PNA before extracting the SD card e Always disconnect manually the SD card from the host reader on the PC Following these simple rules you won t get problems Otherwise sooner or later something strange will happen like maps not visible software malfunctions waypoints not read or not visible etc PDA PNA INTERNAL MEMORY INSTALL If for any reason you cannot use an SD card you may install everything inside the internal device memory In this case the LK8000 folder should be placed exactly on the root directory of the device and the executables together with the DLL libraries should be copied in the root directory as well moving them from the LK8000 folder one path back LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 7 This is not a standard procedure it should be used only for emergencies and it is not suggested to use the internal memory Internal memory has a limited number or write cycles just like SD cards Sooner or later it will stop working While you can change an SD card anytime you won t be able to do the same with internal memory PC INSTALL A PC version is available for running LK on the desktop PC running Windows This version is exactly the same version for CE devices with a few minor differences such as no battery support and a different and unlimited memory use CE devices have a memory limit for application while PC version has not It
31. clicking on each configurable item in the System menu 10 you will be able to choose among a long list of possible actions Left Cust Key L E i 136 bev aes ee CA 4 z T S AN S ee a E SABLED Toggle Map lt gt Traffic L PONIEN ral Menu Traffic Page Back Invert colors Toggle Map lt gt current page TrueWind Toggle Map lt gt Landables Toggle overlays Landables AutoZoom On Off Toggle Map lt gt Commons ActiveMap On Off Commons Mark Location Here it is in detail what you can do DISABLED No action this is the default Menu Call up system menu the same you get by short clicking on the aircraft icon Page Back Go back one page in screen modes for example from 2 x to 1 y Normally you can only go forward advance with the center key You may want also to go back as well Toggle Map lt gt Current Page If you are on the map page you go on the last seen InfoPage 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x etc If you are on a InfoPage 1 x 2 x etc you will go back to moving map Toggle Map lt gt Landables Alternate Map and Landables page Landables Go straight to the Landables page If you are on the landables page already nothing happens Toggle Map lt gt Commons like for landables Commons like for landables LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 25 Toggle Map Traffic Traffic Invert colors TrueWind Toggle Overlays AutoZoom ON OFF toggle ActiveMap ON OFF toggle Mark Loc
32. compass errors very important You are flying straight and you are ready to test the TrueWind for the first time You only have to keep direction and speed constant right It does look easy You accomplish the first step choosing a plain East direction Neat and big on your compass Your aircraft is now pointing to east no doubts And it is not rolling either wonderful Now it s time for step 2 you want to stabilize the speed to say 100kmh You trim a bit the elevator to get to your 100kmh but all of a sudden something happens your compass is not pointing to East anymore It is actually turning Ouch o0 you start back from step 1 and you have some problems this time because it looks like your compass is not working that well but finally you manage to point East again Back to step 2 trim a bit and OUCH compass problem again it is turning What s going on Mystery solved Explanation from the web may help you in case you wonder what has happened From pilot s web site The magnetic dip and the forces of inertia cause magnetic compass errors when accelerating and decelerating on Easterly and westerly headings Because of the pendulous type mounting the aft end of the compass card is tilted upward when accelerating and downward when decelerating during changes of airspeed When accelerating on either an east or west heading the error appears as a turn indication toward north When decelerating on either of these
33. for landables then current MC will be used Read this twice it is important Arrival altitude over obstacles ALWAYS considers Safety Terrain Height LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 90 BestAlternate BestAlternate function is always active and it is constantly trying to guess the best landing option from your current position using waypoints in memory that are marked as landables and using the terrain data if available to calculate obstacles The bestlanding option is NOT necessarily the closest It is normally the home airfield to begin Or another airport where we can be towed or winched An outlanding is never preferred to an airfield All of this considering glide ratio wind obstacles and very important with large safety margins Expecially if you are flying in the mountains the BestAlternate will constantly keep en eye around for you suggesting in advance a gateway to a safe landing A new search is made every minute 60 seconds On PC version every 10 seconds During those 60 seconds the information displayed inside InfoPages and Bottom Bar is updated in real time with the current required glide ratio and arrival altitude to the destination just like an Alternate When the BestAlternate has changed a bell is played and a message appears on the screen In other words the selection of BestAlternate is made every minute but the values concerning the current best are updated in real time
34. ground track direction is 020 you are trying to keep 000 and you are drifted 20 degrees by the wind Or if your ground direction is 070 we assume you are keeping 090 that is EAST on your compass However if we read 045 ground course it is not possible to know if you are heading N or E The dead zone or uncertain zone ranges from 035 to 055 in this case So a course angle of 035 055 125 145 215 235 and 305 325 degrees is considered invalid We cannot be sure about your heading intentions That s of course valid in the case you have pressed N E S W Wrong wind readouts The principle cause does not depend on the pilot precision because TrueWind will average values and correct and smooth errors Instead the main problem could be the calibration of your airspeed indicator and especially that of your analog compass We can t do miracles in this case TrueWind with an Air Speed Indicator connected If you are lucky to have IAS TAS being sent to LK8000 such as with Zander Cambridge LX Digifly Compeo etc then TrueWind will automatically use this IAS You don t need to configure the TrueWind IAS in config system menu 5 Just head correctly and keep a constant indicated air speed whatever you like But keep it constant LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 104 TrueWind and Condor Simulator LK8000 since version 1 20 has automatic wind setting constantly updating internally the wind that Condor is s
35. is executed at the end of LK just before the software exits HP31X and BLUESOLEIL From the explorer enter Resident Flash then IPAQ then Bluetooth You find BlueSoleil exe Copy this file on the SD card inside LK8000 Execute it to be sure it is activating BlueTooth and pairing is Ok Do this test from the SD card then exit BlueSoleil from the task bar Now rename BlueSoleil exe to PRELOAD 30 EXE or 00 or 05 but NOT 99 Done Now run LK8000 and BlueSoleil will run in the background The blue light will switch on If you need to pair devices then call it PRELOAD 60 and do this operation within 1 minute from startup Then it will automatically start LK LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 113 START TIME GATES FOR PARAGLIDERS DELTA What are Time Gates Grand Prix for Gliders In paragliding competitions pilots can cross the start cylinder only at a certain time or at the next time gate Time is accounted starting from the time gate time not from the crossing time Gliders have something similar called Grand Prix racing but with only 1 single time gate It is thus very important that a pilot crosses the boundary line only when the gate is open and possibly immediately after it is open Any second more is time lost and accounted nevertheless LK8000 can manage Time Gates showing not only the countdowns but also and most important also the estimated time of arrival at the start cylinder A pilot
36. is only described with an L with no A It is simple SeeYou In Naviter s CUP format we use field 7 Waypoint style e Airports are those with a style number 2 or 4 or 5 e Landables are as usual outlandings and are those with style 3 CompeGPS All CompeGPS waypoints are considered simple turnpoints not landables Nearest Page 2 1 Airports BET NE VALBREMBO 15 3 112 939 127 347 779 ROVELLASC 3 3 1809 17 BRESSO 45 8 157 16 8 1642 LINATE 1 2 145 18 6 1558 TL Avg GS Alt Dis Req E 41 9 132 2863 33 7 13 67 By default each page is sorted by Distance but you can change it by clicking on Dir rEff Arriv or onto APTS to get alphabetic sorting See the turnpoint page later on for an example APTS 1 3 is telling you that there are 3 pages of Airports to view and you are looking at page 1 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 30 Light red letters are telling you that the waypoint is not reachable either for obstacles or for glide range We can not make these values RED because RED on black is not visible under direct sun light wearing sunglasses So we are using light red better than nothing To select a waypoint move use up down and enter To change to page 2 8 or backward use gestures The following page is explaining how to do this The up down enter approach is turbulence proof and once you will understand how easy it works you will love i
37. is that before translating a book you must write it The same happens with software We are not done with the development and thus we are not ready for translations But the software will be available in several languages within a few months The manual is undergoing translation starting with 1 22 This manual is incomplete am sorry not to be able to provide a complete and detailed manual for version 1 22 have been trying to describe the most important differences between XCSoar and LK8000 and they have required a long work Writing the documentation is a work in progress since also the source code is changing but it will get better soon Please go to the www postfrontal com forum with any questions and for support from other users No Warranty THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Maintain effective lookout of your aircraft LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 3 Supported devices LK8000 can run on many devices sharing the Windows CE operating system It won t run on Android phones on
38. not moving It will assume that you are right outside your hangar on ground at your airport so it will get your home waypoint s altitude which is supposed to be the very correct one LK8000 will change the pressure value so that its relative altitude will match the desired home altitude Done LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 107 Basic Settings Wing Loading Wing loading is the result of glider weight divided by wing s surface While the wing area does not change the weight for this calculation can change a lot giving as a result different wing loadings When you select a glider or a WinPilot polar custom polar file you are actually telling LK e what was the weight in use during tests for the polar flight that gave following results e what is the maximum water ballast you can load e and what does the polar curve look like for that default weight In LK you can change the wing loading simply selecting a value in Basic Settings Once set the polar curve is shifted correctly You don t need to change the polar itself It is very wrong to change the polar weight value without recalculating also sink rates Be careful if you are using a WinPilot custom polar you don t have any wing area value in there So no calculation of wing loading is possible and thus in Basic Settings no Wing Loading will be selectable To fix this problem a new polar field is managed inside WinPilot polar file See the example
39. or after LK8000 itself Normally users need to execute external software before running LK to activate bluetooth or to rotate the screen or to set backlight etc It is easy to do such things from within LK8000 now automatically This explanation is for people with a technical background that know already what software they want to run when and how How does it work It is very simple inside the LK8000 directory the directory where you find the LK executables and the Configuration subdirectory etc copy the desired programs For example copy rotate exe Notice that on some devices and most of PNAs you also need DLL libraries to be in the same directory of executable file Inside LK8000 directory there are already aygshell dll note prj dll for example because they are requested by the IK8000 program Your software may require some other DLLs but normally it won t be necessary Then you have to rename the software to one of these names PRELOAD 00 EXE PRELOAD 05 EXE PRELOAD 30 EXE PRELOAD 60 EXE PRELOAD 99 EXE ENDLOAD 00 EXE ENDLOAD 05 EXE ENDLOAD 30 EXE ENDLOAD 60 EXE ENDLOAD 99 EXE PRELOAD software is executed at LK8000 startup before screen size is determined ENDLOAD software is executed just before the shutdown exit of LK is terminated So if you need to execute something BEFORE LK8000 is started use PRELOAD If you need to execute something AFTER LK8000 is terminated use ENDLOAD You can have both thing
40. since they are predefined and always available even after a reset You are assured that during flight this information is always available and always at the same place and position InfoPage 4 can be fully customized The Bottom Bar is always active and you can mix up InfoPages with navboxes with many possible combinations InfoPage 1 1 CRUISE 7 11 1 Cruise Alzate 10 24 17 Dis Ta Reg E Zi 11 means 31 4 84 20 2 oO NxtArr Brg E Cru E 20 254 189 This is the main navigation InfoPage InfoPage 1 Subpage 1 CRUISE zd Destination waypoint name and local time is shown on de the top 338 103 Wind TL Avg TRAI ManMCc 22 8 1 0 1 0 0 0 TL Avg GS Alt NEN cee Values from top left to bottom right are 1 0 103 1943 31 4 20 238 Dis Distance to destination To Bearing different to destination Heq E Required efficiency to destination E Avg Current averaged efficiency in the last minutes normally 2 but you can configure it NxtArr Arrival altitude at next waypoint i e the destination Brg Bearing to the destination E Cru Cruise efficiency average efficiency since you left your last thermal E 20 Last 20 seconds efficiency Alt your altitude Trk your ground track or Heading GS Ground speed FL flight level in hundreds of feet 63 means 6300 feet Wind direction and intensity TL Avg Last Thermal average lift Th All All thermal average lift or daily
41. the Bottom Bar is visible of course LEFT UP will be a custom key in next version Available only in Moving Map mode AIRCRAFT custom k LEFT Custom Key CENTER RIGHT custom key custom key By default Custom Keys are disabled This is why no matter if you click short or longer on the Bottom Bar so far you always got the same results To activate one or more custom keys enter Setup System menu 10 10 Interface The default configuration in version 1 22 has all Active Map Cust Keys DISABLED Virtual Keys IPhone Gestures 5 i Map Locking Menu timeout Custom Key time Kugel 434 DISABLED ne Oncaea lt a DISABLED RULAGA 34 DISABLED PX rese maleta DISABLED LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 24 Custom Key time In order to get a custom key response you must click on a key for some time Below under this time the click will be interpreted as a normal click thus performing the usual operations rotate navboxes call menu change screen mode With this parameter you define how long you must AT LEAST keep pressed in order to call a Custom Key This time is expressed in milliseconds and it changes device by device so you may experiment yourself and choose your preferred timing By default it is 700ms All Custom Keys share the same time for length of click If no action is defined for any custom key then this parameter is not used at all Available custom keys actions By
42. value There s a very important difference between Requested Efficiency and Arrival Altitude Requested Efficiency is a geometric value based on your altitude and the distance to the waypoint This is a pure and simple absolute number and the pilot will judge by himself if it is a good or bad value for his aircraft for the wind conditions for the weather conditions etc Requested Efficiency for landing point does take into account safety altitude of course but does not take into account the wind When it is windy your rEff will remain the same only your real efficiency will change You will judge the value Arrival altitude on the contrary is estimated with complicated calculations taking into account your glider s polar the wind and your MC settings It is important to understand that an estimation is only a guess and that it is in addition using your own guessing for the MC setting It is thus always a good idea to keep an eye also on Requested Efficiency and let your brain compute the glide path s quality estimation Here are some explanations on how Arrival Altitude is calculated e SafetyAltitude is used for landables and optionally for all turnpoints depending on how you configured it in System config menu 6 e Landables use current MC only if it is greater than safetyMC this means that you have configured a faster speed otherwise SafetyMC Landables are thus always using at least safetyMC or more Landables do always
43. you can load both CUP or both dat or only one etc No restrictions Naviter s SeeYou CUP format may bring you additional information for landable points such as runway length runway direction radio frequency etc Comments are truncated to 150 characters for memory reasons Alzate LILB 123 500 RW 30 600m CHANGING A WAYPOINT and then pressing SAVE Goto Lat Lon E009 09 43 in config menu 21 will force LK8000 to rewrite the waypoint file this waypoint was belonging to For example if the waypoint you modified was inside xus waypoint file 2 which is a SeeYou CUP file then this Sew Distance file will be rewritten with the new waypoint at the end Bearing Elevation Alt diff Mc 0 ADDING A WAYPOINT will eventually save it to waypoint file 1 Whatever format it is using Alt diff Mc current Read it again waypoint file 1 The first file you chose TERET in config menu 1 NOT THE SECOND Read more about this in CompeGPS explanation LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 68 Waypoint Names Task Waypoints History Waypoints A unique waypoint is identified by having at the same time unique e name e coordinates e type airport outlanding turnpoint Several waypoints can co exist having the same name but different attributes as long as they have different coordinates or type If two waypoints differ only for altitude or other minor details then the already existing one will
44. you to set a close time overnight Example you cannot have a local time start at 21 00 9pm and close time at 1 in the morning The close time will be forced at 23 59 in any case This should be no problem since there is no sun and no visibility in the night gt gt gt BE CAREFUL WITH SIMULATIONS AT NIGHT THE MIDNIGHT CUTOFF IS PENDING lt lt lt Start OUT does not work with multiple start points Testing Time Gates in SIMULATIONS Finally remember that using SIM mode you need to TAKEOFF in order to let some calculations run DO NOT TEST SIM MODE WITHOUT MOVING THE GLIDER AND HAVING A TAKEOFF DETECTED Do testing correctly Some calculations DO NOT RUN when there is no takeoff and you are on ground LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 120 Configuring LK8000 for Paragliding The following configuration is a good example But first of all e select Aircraft Category Paraglider in system config menu 7 e change from Basic to Expert menu 3 Map Display Labels Names Trail Length Short Orientation Track Up Auto Zoom Off Trail Drift Off Trail Width 8 to 14 I use at 12 Circling Zoom On Declutter waypoints Low Declutter landings Low 5 Glide Computer Auto Wind Circling TrueWind IAS 39 kh TrueWind period 8 s Auto Mc mode Both L D average period 15 Seconds Lift Center Circle at Center Auto Force Final Glide Off Use baro altitude Off T Aircraft Category Paraglide
45. 00x240 480x234 480x272 640x480 800x480 If a device is using a screen resolution that is not in this list you will be told about the problem when running the software It probably won t look very good from the GUI point of view To our knowledge these resolutions are the most commonly used nowadays PNAs normally use 480x272 resolution with very few exceptions Adding a new resolution takes only a few hours so this list will grow up as needed LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 4 Landscape vs Portrait mode As stated above LK can run both in portrait and in landscape mode LK was thought for landscape mode primarily Here are different screenshots for a 640x480 device in landscape and portrait AWA am ub 340170 k 229 Dis 34 0 1 i AVIS Dis Reg E a 229 34 0 Et For portrait mode the old IBOX mode from XCSoar is still available and can be activated deactivated with a click on the fly It also works for landscape in case it is preferred LEB ALT TSKDI5 229 81 34 A ZATE RG ET 94107 i s 3lel MCREADY TSKSP TSKSPAV 0 0 MANUAL TSKETE 18 16 Orio 7km TSKSPI LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL ni L i c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Old XCSoar portrait mode is called IBOX mode LK8000 functionalities for changing pages are not available in this modality However it is possible to switch to LK mode with a single click 2 1 A
46. 15 not including those about critical conditions In case you have a faulty charging process or a buggy device this will solve an annoying problem of too many notifications LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 95 Save and Load Profiles LK8000 at startup is looking inside Configuration subdirectory for a DEFAULT PROFILE prf file and other prf files If there are NO profiles then factory defaults are loaded LK8000 is reset to zero configuration This is a good approach if you want to reset configuration because something is not working remove all profiles from _ Configuration after exiting LK8000 Then run LK8000 On exit LK8000 is saving current configuration in memory to the DEFAULT PROFILE prf all the times Even if you have loaded a different profile on startup the DEFAULT PROFILE on exit will ALWAYS remember what was the latest configuration in use with no exceptions If on startup only DEFAULT PROFILE prf is found and NO other profiles then it is the only choice and itis loaded without asking anything to you If on startup there are 2 or more profiles available then it will ask you to choose one Remember that no matter what you load on exit DEFAULT PROFILE is saved back with current choices Please understand the following a profile contains information about screen settings that are device specific You cannot copy a profile from a PDA to another PDA to PC to PNA or whatever else device be
47. 3 Create button labels 256585625 Initialize fonts 246585658 Initialise message system 246585656 Create map window 246585671 Initializing critical sections and euents 256585671 ClearTask 246585671 InitCalculations 256585671 Searching for GRecordDLL 2565856571 Can t load GRecordDLL On PC version this is normal 256585687 Startup dialog 2565585687 Restore registry 246585718 Read registry settings 2465857354 Loading default PNA settings 2465857354 Language file not supported in LK8 BH 2465857354 Loading status file 246585758 Loading input events file 246585758 Calculate Heu Polar Coef 256585758 GlidePolar SetBallast 2565585758 Loading Terrain 256585758 Terrain Open RasterMapRaw lt C Documents and SettingsXuentaXDocumnentiXL K8BBB MapsXDEHO 58B8 DEH 246585758 Terrain size is 345668 246585758 ReadWayPoints 246585758 CloseWayPoints 246585758 InitUirtualUaypoints start 256585758 AllocateWaypointList 2564585756 OK 246585758 AllocateWayPointCalc 2456485758 OK 256585765 InitUirtualUaypoints done 1 uwp 256585765 Waypoint File 1 Format SeeYou 2565585765 Found LKHDHE inside CUP waypoint lt Ualbrembo gt 246585765 Init LK8 0H 246585765 LoadRecentList loaded recent waypoints 246585765 Init HodeTable for LK8000 2464585765 Ok 256585765 ReadAirfieldFile 256585765 Se
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50. ERINGEN 4LBERGEN N HARBRINKi ee WEERSE NS NAVA SAASVELD GS Alt Dis Req E GS Alt Dis Or 229 0 229 ee Old map and LKMAP Same place more details more roads more cities LKMAPS do not suffer from the infamous problem of water instead of land on some areas For example the Netherlands appear blue on XCSoar Using LKMAPS they are correctly painted Most areas in the UK Italy etc previously appearing as sea are now OK There are still small problems in large areas where thin parts of terrain are water but there is nothing we can do about it right now The problem is that terrain elevation has nothing to do with its content water sand or whatever it might be LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 46 DOWNLOADING LKMAPS AND INSTALLING THEM You can download new maps from http www bware it listing LKMAPS e LKMAPS terrain files have DEM suffix DEM files are telling LK8000 the terrain elevation averaged at 1000m resolution 500m 250m etc depending on the file you choose For memory and performance problems you cannot load terrain maps in LK8000 larger than 4 5 megabytes It is possible to do it especially on PC version but a good choice would be something between 3 and 4 megabytes e LKMAPS topology files have LKM suffix LKM files have the vector data of roads water places cities etc and their label names This is similar to car navigator s maps b
51. H change the QNH and your altitude will be recalibrated Automatic QNH and QFE QNH auto calibration LK will try to guess and set automagically your QNH your Altitude really at startup Don t be surprised if your QNH seems good without having regulated anything Let s call it QNH auto calibration It works only if you have an incoming barometric altitude from an altimeter or vario of course you have a valid GPS fix you have configured terrain data and you are standing on a known terrain you are not moving it is the first time attempting to adjust automatically QNH i e NOT after landing you haven t changed QNH yourself yet of course LK will not change your settings The first attempt requires a valid GPS fix LK will look at your position immediately and if you are close to your home airport 2km from your home airport waypoint position then your Home waypoint altitude will be used We are assuming here that you have set a very correct known altitude for home In this case the baro pressure will be set in order to match the home airport altitude This is the best possible guess Otherwise LK will try to use the terrain approximated altitude at your position which normally requires further manual adjusting in Basic Settings because terrain is never exact being an average of an area When QNH auto calibration is made a message is given on the screen telling you that in order to set for example 229m which is you hom
52. LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 57 Leds and Sounds EN LES From this menu you can control Flarm s lights and sounds Only Stealth ON and OFF are available inside this menu Other functionalities are reserved and or inhibited since they require non official third parties Flarm firmware Stealth mode will drastically reduce data broadcasting of your telemetry and at the same time will drastically reduce the amount of information you will be receiving from other aircraft LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 58 Radio Range By default Flarm will not transmit to LK8000 traffic information from aircraft that are more than 3 km far away You can command Flarm to extend or reduce this range up to 25km or down to 2km This operation can only be done while on ground efault Averag f Ave rag Highe 3km 10km 45km 25k km Traffic on the moving map From System Config menu 13 Map Overlays you can activate FLARM on Map Traffic in range will be visible on the moving map kanm p Aircraft ID should be configured manually A a S NI 0 0 The 3 9 in this screenshot is the average climb rate of that glider Corna Marcia GS Alt 139 1850 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 59 TRAFFIC Safety goes first Traffic information is obtained from FLARM compatible devices It is transmitted as part of t
53. Lat Lon and UTM coordinates for 1 minute Paragliders should absolutely remember and know how to instantly get their UTM position any time instantly Q mh 2 yis 5 6 m LEFT and RIGHT UP KEYS WILL BECOME CUSTOM KEYS SOON As already stated these keys are going to be part of the Custom Keys in the next software version and users will be able to choose which action to assign to them at their best convenience Custom Keys have a dedicated chapter in this manual LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 20 ACTIVE map touchscreen and Virtual Keys When map is active ActiveMap ON short clicking on the map will result in selecting the nearest waypoint s details This is the old behavior of XCSoar For a pilot airborne it is always difficult to select a small point on a small screen located 50cm away This is the reason why Active Map in LK8000 is optional and by default it is disabled e ActiveMap can be permanently enabled inside System Config menu 10 Interface e ActiveMap can also be temporarily enabled and disabled from Config menu 3 3 10 Interface Basic Active Map OFF 7 Virtual Keys OFF IPhone Gestures Map Locking Menu timeout Custom Key time Left Cust Key DISABLED Center Cust Key DISABLED Right Cust Key DISABLED Aircr lcon Cust Key If you choose to use ActiveMap permanently then it is a good idea to activate the optional Virtual Keys in the same configurati
54. Linux embedded devices or any non CE system Namely it doesn t run on Garmin navigators TomTom etc because they use a custom operating system It does run on CE 4 2 CE 5 0 and most 6 x devices Generally it is supposed to work fine on any CE device if it doesn t it is normally fixed in a few days once we grab one of those new units LK8000 works perfectly also in Windows 32 environments Windows XP Wine and generally also Windows XP under VMware Since linux can run VMware it is possible to run LK8000 under linux as well In the next months we shall spend more time on this matter PNA car navigators have landscape screens which LK was designed for However it works perfectly in portrait mode as well and the LK user interface can also be disabled to gain a vanilla XCSoar interface A great deal of time was spent to make it backward compatible at user interface level also in portrait mode LK will behave differently on different screen resolutions the User Interface is fine tuned for each resolution for best results For example on large 800x480 devices the Bottom Bar holds 6 boxes while on other resolutions only 5 are shown The Nearest InfoPages can list 5 to 10 items depending on screen resolution and so on Supported screen resolutions You are assured that all of the following screen resolutions have been fine tuned for the best user experience Portrait mode 240x320 480x640 480x800 Landscape mode 320x240 4
55. NT List To Arr 0 TS 49 49 RelAlt Brg 46 175 Vara 1007 115 52 2 1 5 e AS 109 TC Gain TO 30 TC AVG Th Al SoC limb 62 1 a Lrs 1 a An 1 a me DO x This page is text only with no Sight Additionally some more information is available concerning the target ground speed altitude instant vario if available bearing LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 67 Multiple waypoint s formats in LK8000 Inside config menu 1 you can choose up to TWO different waypoint files located inside Waypoints subfolder You normally load waypoint file n 1 with ordinary waypoints and waypoint file 2 with special turnpoints to use for contests or daily tasks However you can use both files with no restrictions There is no predetermined limit for the number of waypoints you can load it depends on how much memory you have available However it is not advisable to exceed 5000 waypoints if you are also using large maps and airspaces 1 Site LK8000 can load different kinds of waypoint files also Map file differently between file 1 and file 2 Terrain file Waone d Supported formats are currently Uo n o Winpilot dat Airspace 1 e Naviter SeeYou CUP Airspace 2 O e CompeGPS wpt Aa rhs For example you can load 2010 CUP as file 1 and TCAE Include pwc2009 wpt as file 2 The first is a SeeYou file the second is a CompeGPS waypoint file with turnpoints for a competition Or
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57. PTS 1 3 VALBREMBO ORIO BAIALUPO ALZATE BRESSO 36 5 123 LINATE 39 2 141 E Tem 1 1 Cruise Alzate Dis Ta 34 0 81 NxtArr Brg 1021 279 Alt Trk 229 ROVELLASC 42 1 98 PRADELLE 48 5 123 Wind AM Th All ManMc 0 0 Dis Reg 34 0 mas CAIOLO 50 4 189 0 229 34 0 1 1 Cruise Alzate Dis To 0 0 rel IF RUM 81 a 7 ice B1 m i 1 6 1021 279 LINATE 141 02 2i i 141 98 Alt Trk PR 5 133 229 a i 0 4 18 h VARESE BB Wind 19 13 171 gt 59 Bl TL Avg GS Alt P EM Alt Dis R Or 229 340 AN O 229 340 NxEArT Brg Notice that portrait mode requires smaller fonts and it will be generally harder to see during flight than a landscape device But the biggest problem with portrait mode is the limited space for clicking on the Bottom Bar as you will read later It becomes a problem to select custom keys too You can rotate the screen of your device with any of several free tools available on the internet Most devices can switch to landscape mode directly from their screen configuration PNAs are all landscape devices LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 6 Install LK8000 You can install the LK on an SD card or on the device internal memory The best and preferred method is to install LK8000 on an SD card when your device is reset for any reason everything w
58. The countdown counter becomes NEGATIVE 00 10 indicating the time passed since the gate is j open 10 seconds START 11 45 This is the time lost if you are considering using GATE OPEN this time gate to really start the race The lower the better MA The best possible value should be 00 01 meaning you crossed the start exactly one second after open time Better not to cross at 00 00 being a border line 4 Stun time Jp we ia BEDA xe In the example LK8000 is telling the pilot that Start 1 Alt Dis MAE of 3 is open since 10 seconds and 2 minutes and 14 229 5 8r seconds are estimated to cross the start LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 117 Attention The GATE OPEN text will be RED and so will be the distance if you are still on the WRONG SIDE of the start cylinder 21 10 10 4 START 21 00 NEXT 21 15 J 10 10 Start 3 4 4 18 5km 2 F 229m 0 0 TL Avg 55 Alt Dis Q 2 2 9 3 4 M m After 5 minutes since the gate was open the GATE OPEN line is alternating with the NEXT start time This is to let the pilot know in advance when the next gate will be available In the example 10 minutes have passed since gate 3 was open and the pilot did not yet cross the start cylinder LK8000 assumes that the pilot is considering using the next gate for a more convenient start Nevertheless we still show how much time has passed so far Normally the pi
59. UAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 123 NENNEN GEMENS Savane nen nr xBatt1 xBatt2 External External device battery bank 1 and 2 voltages if available Batteries Dee xBank External External device battery bank in use if available Battey Bank a a FL Flight Level a PEE E Req E Next Req Efficiency ee E Next Alt Arrival a La LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL Altitude Flight Level indicator FL is expressed in hundreds of feet This indicator is using current altitude which is not necessarily barometric and in any case not necessarily calculated on the standard atmosphere In other words it is not accurate and can be very wrong even by some hundreds feet So use it as an approximated indicator The distance made since takeoff calculated each second also while circling This value is reset to zero at takeoff and cannot be reset in any other way This value is calculated just like if you were driving a car on a flat surface The required glide ratio to reach the next waypoint given by the distance to next waypoint divided by the height required to arrive at the Safety Arrival Altitude Over 199 and below 1 no value is shown This is a pure geometric calculation equal to Garmin Naviter and most common other instruments Arrival Altitude at the next waypoint altitude calculated for current MacCready It does not use Safety MC and does not use safety altitude unless it is a landing point unless configured to do so
60. XCSoar configuration or tasks It installs in a different directory running off an SD card with no CAB files and without using the device memory LK and XCS 6 are now almost totally different at source level This manual is temporarily about things that are NOT available in the old XCSoar either because they are new features or because they have been fixed and or deeply changed Special thanks to Mino Giolai Sergio Silva Mateusz Pusz Bjorn Haugsgjerd Allan Broadribb Berthold Bredenbeck Peter Lengkeek Sasa Mihajlovic Karim Trojette Michel Hagoort and all of the alpha testers people Thanks to Lucas Marchesini D S X for data filtering algorithms and the wind calculation help and to Donato from Digifly Europe Paolo Ventafridda Milano Italy July 2010 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 2 Changes from previous versions All changes are incorporated in the manual of course However a list of all changes is kept at the end of this manual in order to let you know at a glance what has happened so far If you are an experienced user of a previous version you may start reading this document from the bottom Version 1 22 has significative improvements over the 1 20 and some important possibly critical bugfixes Although we strive to catch all possible problems and fix them in alpha versions it is practically impossible to test the software under all hardware conditions Translations The basic idea
61. altimeter n 1 to the correct altitude then LK8000 will look at your GPS location and guess an average altitude The Baro altitude is then set accordingly If you have no GPS signal or you have no terrain configured in LK8000 then it is not possible to guess an average altitude for your location and QNH will not be set automatically Once QNH is changed for the first time either because you adjusted altitude in altimeter 1 or because in the meantime GPS signal was acquired and terrain altitude was used then it will NO MORE be changed automatically To adjust baro altitude in LK8000 anytime you can enter MENU CONFIG BASIC SETTINGS where you can change both altitude and pressure value whatever you prefer LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 55 Remember that the Leo will stop sending out telemetry values when you enter the config MENU Brauniger Flytec Compeo 5030 LK8000 can parse Compeo s NMEA sentences GPRMZ and VMVABD The latter provides Baro altitude vario airspeed and temperature Airspeed is assumed to be IAS indicated Compeo does not specify in NMEA which air speed it is sending unfortunately AIRSPEED IS ASSUMED TO BE THE IAS NOT THE TAS IF TAS IS BEING SENT IAS AND TAS ARE WRONG LK8000 IS EXPECTING IAS INDICATED AIR SPEED FROM THE FLYTEC Baro altitude can be adjusted for QNH as all instruments with LK8000 from Menu config Basic Settings Flymaster F1 LK8000 fully supports t
62. amen Uc E rrain Aira ace Vis P a 24 AIOR A00 ATA S J 2 eee A Ew pe ice Vie i e 7 a RES H ae I J ANI 5 weet m rre rr COt RE Eee dh b LKMAPS DATABASE AND ADDING NEW MAPS The database will grow up quickly and you can ask for new maps to be integrated Use the EXAMPLE TXT template inside the template folder to ask for new maps and expecially look at the other templates for your region as well Send me coolwind email it your templates correctly renamed and filed as attached TXT files Remember maps cannot be larger than 4 5 megabytes Using 1000m resolution normally solves the problem In order to request DEM terrain correctly following rules should be applied e for DEM 1000m maps max 1100x1100 km area e for DEM 500m maps max 540x540 km are e for DEM 250m maps max 270x270 km area Please use the REMarks while filling the template describing the mapset Hemember that people will be looking for maps and will be happy to read your notes LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 50 Advanced Dual Port Communications LK8000 can use 2 two simultaneous serial lines that provide NMEA data from GPS and or vario instruments NECS Digifly A COMG Beeler 38400 Name sed COM1 Baudrate NCE ON exEWeiom Selects Normal j We call them PORT 1 and PORT 2 or Device A and Device B Each Port is connected to a physical COM port
63. aolo Ventafridda 105 Basic Settings Barometric altitude and QNH If your NMEA feed is providing barometric altitude you should select it inside system config menu 5 Use baro altitude first Your baro altitude will be at all effects used internally for navigation Baro altitude is really a pressure measurement and it works the same as on wrist altimeters such as a Suunto or a Casio Flarm LX Zander Cambridge etc are all reporting the same altitude being based on digital pressure sensors This altitude is relative to a certain pressure assumed on Mean Sea Level 1013 25hPa It is called Standard Pressure and any altitude relative to standard pressure is called QNE Air spaces and air navigation are all relative to standard atmosphere and thus they are all using standard pressure However you know that pressure changes and your altimeter needs to be calibrated before takeoff regulating the pressure Normally you simply adjust the altitude to the correct known ground altitude and the reference pressure inside the altimeter is set accordingly automatically The new pressure is called QNH Now from Config menu Basic Settings you can change either the Altitude or the QNH You need a valid baro altitude available first of course And you normally do it once before takeoff Adjust the altitude to the known correct ground altitude and you will see that the QNH pressure is adjusted as well During flight you may ask your AFIS for QN
64. ation PG Delta Time Gates menu Thermal Booster Goto Home airfield Toggle IBOX LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL like for landables like for landables Works like pressing Display 3 8 Invert Text This is useful during flight when light conditions require an higher contrast All LK8000 information is inverted to give you the best contrast on all pages not only the moving map calls up the TrueWind menu will enable or disable the configured map overlays on the fly Useful if you are keen on having a clean map time to time the title says it all the title says it all the title says it all the title says it all Enable the thermal booster for enhanced climb rates Force a go Home In case a real task is running you will be asked for a confirmation This choice is available only for the Custom Aircraft Icon Key It will toggle IBOX mode on and off IBOX mode is as we have seen the old XCSoar style c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 26 Menu Button The first and most important button is the MENU which pops up green buttons on screen for multiple choices You call MENU with a short click on the aircraft icon in the bottom right part of screen S07 207 E ME BUTTON HGPS HBAR QFE AItAGL 900 447 INMENSO _ s x The main Menu activated by E i Menu button After a few seconds of inactivity it automatically disappears This period of inactivity timeout is configurable too Alternatively you can clic
65. be used and the latter will be discarded Loading a task file will also load embedded waypoints for the task adding them to the internal list LK8000 is comparing these waypoints inside the already existing waypoints loaded from files If a waypoint is already existing with the same name and attributes it will be used in place of that inside task file Normally from the user point of view there is no apparent difference However there is a small difference task waypoints even if modified will not be saved to file Task waypoints if not existing already will not be saved to history as well In other words task waypoints are considered temporary and part of a task file They won t survive a software restart unless of course you reload the same task But until software restart they will remain in memory and they will be selectable in waypoint lookup in nearest turnpoint pages in history in commons Even if they have the same name So be careful whenever possible do not use the same name for different waypoints If you are using names such as START FINISH etc remember that loading several task files will NOT delete internally old waypoints until software restart SeeYou Waypoint files e any task lines normally at the bottom of the file will be removed e MAX number of characters in radio Frequency field is 15 anything over 15 will be considered an error and NOT used e MAX number of characters in Code field is 15 any
66. cause each profile belongs to the device it was generated for LK8000 can t know if you have copied a profile from another device and it will assume that what s inside is good all the way If you exchange profiles between different devices the screen will be probably unreadable It is never a good idea to exchange profiles between different devices When you want to save a particular setting to another profile in order to be able to load it back later go to MENU CONFIG 3 3 Profiles and choose PROFILE1 PROFILE2 or PROFILES i rote e3 You will be asked to confirm and then a new PROFILE1 prf or 2 or 3 will be created inside Configuration Remember again that in any case on exit all settings will also be saved to DEFAULT PROFILE LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 96 There are 3 profiles available for loading and saving from within LK8000 CONFIG 3 3 Profiles However if you exit LK8000 and enter the x Configuration directory you will be able to copy rename delete these profiles and name them with more reasonable names such as DQG300 prf CONDOR prf etc You can have as many profiles as you want On startup you will be asked to choose among them Loading a profile from startup is the safest choice however you can also load a profile from CONFIG 3 3 Profiles with some limitations you should be aware of LOADING A PROFILE FROM CONFIG 3 3 Profiles menu does NOT grant you that all va
67. cf 1 7 789 0 0 143 ddbeb8 1 7 779 0 1 145 dd8a92 1 7 779 40 0 136 V3 D 3167 0 5 146 04 511 O1 D 7729 1 7 779 0 4 151 dd980b 0 5 129 42 1 566 dda53c 1 7 76 40 1 142 dda7d8 16 78 0 8 124 TL Avg GS Alt Dis 0 8 108 609 685 This page is updated every 5 seconds like the nearest pages and can be sorted by name distance direction average variometer lift value and altitude The name is either the FLARM ID dd98cf for example or a FLARMNET or FLARMIDS name relative to that ID V3 D 3167 for example The list can extend to other pages TRF 1 4 for example would tell us that there are 4 list pages available and you can turn to them as usual with a gesture up or down GHOST traffic will be painted light yellow ZOMBIES will be painted light red Variometer information is averaged to last 30 seconds TRAFFIC DETAILS PAGE You can select with the standard method one of those traffic lines for example O1 D 7729 Highlight the line and then confirm with a center long click your choice The detail s page will appear Close Follow Rename The top line Traffic LIVE is telling you how Reg recent is this information regarding position ESSE pis speed altitude etc In this case it is 12 seconds old which is pretty good Dir Of course some of this information might not be available Otherwise it will report GHOST or ZOMBIE and the time passed since last rec
68. de Ste a brembo Orio Wi Ait Dis Q 229 12 9 c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 75 The LK8000 moving map is fully configurable and you can customize it at best for your needs Distance to destination Current average efficiency Vario Ground speed Analog variometer Bearing difference to Track heading Destination wp name destination line Bearing line 1 Local time Compass showing current map a Lao T a orientation BLE ENO WO 874 VU MacCready ie Qr FIN Requested Efficiency to destination Arrival Altitude to destination Map Scale BottomBar mode Aircraft icon menu popup Glide Bar Wind indieator BottomE aeneo mca d LK8000 MAP OVERLAYS Release 1 20 March 2010 Note this picture reflects Glider mode Paragliders Delta will have slightly different values as described in the previous page LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 76 Map background color with no terrain From Menu Display 1 3 you can on the fly enable and disable labels only turnpoints landables are always painted topology and terrain When you disable terrain or you haven t configured one the map background color is the one which has been configured inside System Config Menu 4 Terrain Display Empty mapcolor By default it is LCD green EM ey ee ee NNESDOENGES IKONG toma Camo 7 Q Castelloregi T Cerro dg MZuceq 0 Taina Marcia 9 Roncola caido
69. de and QNH lessen eene nnne eese 106 PCO mt ONPEDOnea goa eects steerage cessent E eases eoesaaa Asus 106 COND auto C UO a desecrate a E A 106 OFE auto A OE ANI ession E m 107 ODE Tie AN TO SEE ssc escape E rond E E suns ToU a E E O E 107 Procedure for a successful QNH Auto Calibration esee eene mener 107 Distcoseliriss WIDO JT OQ CITIES e aee te Piet ute hated ue gerne li Serer Ceca isto AE 108 Mesi re MEE qUEIPINLIM RECTE 108 Winpilot Polar fle example 2295500 00500 an REE A Ob cn ed uos Ap iR EU E esa dens a Ne ireid 109 TS ee c ee 110 Dy SUS O a gc cto RO m 111 EXTERNAL PROGRAMS EXECUTION FROM LK8000 eeeeeeeeeeerennnnmmmmreeennnnnnnnnnnnnn 112 Ie AUS 0d qa c 112 What are the OO 30 etc numbers in the name oo eee cece eccecscecceccsccceccscescscescescecescesceseecs 112 AP TX I 0125 01 B Si re 113 START TIME GATES FOR PARAGLIDERS DELTA sese 114 What are Time Gates Grand Prix for Gliders esee nennen nennen nes 114 Comp urbe THESE CHE Sa ooo latem ludis ME MUN REM 114 loe le s TENG E 115 Tm EC eS MIC TIS OM CUE RT tex neabiotswaen sacs 115 Tine GAUSS MA OV 0A NN Lm ME 116 Timne Gates sounds and MESSID ES ire aane E E EOE EOE EEE UD M UTI DUN DEMO DEUS 117 C
70. depends on the operating system not on LK8000 The LK8000 folder should be unzipped inside your Documents folder that you normally find on your desktop The direct path will look on a Windows XP something like C Documents and Settings yourname Documents LK8000 The path to execute the program will look something like C Documents and Seitings yourname Documents LK8000 LK8000SIM PC exe big Where the optional parameter big will allow you to display LK8000 in a larger mode LK8000 DIRECTORIES AND CONTENTS After unzipping the package you will enter the LK8000 directory containing all files and folders needed to run the software Let s start explaining directories first _Airspaces Airspaces need OpenAir formatted files You can find them at http www maddyhome com ctr or at http soaringweb org Airspace HomePage html If you are using old XCsoar map packages XCM you can also extract airspaces from them oimply rename file xcm to file zip open it and extract the airspace txt file Configuration Configuration contains configuration files created by the software and NOTEPAD TXT file that you can edit IDFLARM TXT file that you can edit LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 3 Additionally if you have a serial line connected to a FLARM DSX traffic advisors you may consider downloading and installing here the FLARMNET FLN orthe DATA FLN file containing the database of regist
71. e Where does it come from How s the climb rate in that thermal 3 miles away LK8000 is managing traffic information for side effects usage not for safety It is strongly suggested that if FLARM is alerting you giving basic information with a couple of red LEDS on you pick up these information and watch out You don t look at a PNA s screen Two gliders running at 180km h on a ridge in opposite directions have a relative speed of 360km h each other They make 100m in a second FLARM has a good radio range approx within 2km With no obstacles in between two pilots would be alerted 20 seconds in advance before they collide at best Thats quite a lot of time IF both pilots start looking around after a couple of seconds the time needed to understand from LEDS the direction and altitude of opposite traffic It s frontal traffic at my altitude carefull Now suppose that the ridge has an obstacle or it is turning some 60 degrees so that the radio range is drastically reduced Those 20 seconds may become 10 seconds at best You may be one of those two pilots How would you like it if the other pilot instead of watching all the way out is looking at his PDA spending those 10 vital seconds trying to understand where you are by searching for an icon on the moving map radar which is intrinsically 1 to 2 seconds late and haraly visible under some light conditions LK8000 thus has no RADAR page no collision warnings no safety messa
72. e click on aircraft icon and access Screen View pan off button SIM mode only change position of the aircraft on the moving map For simulation only in order to quickly change position of the glider without having to set a new home and restart LK do the following e Enter PAN mode MILL NE E 2 3l Move around and place the central screen cross ALZATE l bp XSBREASUL exactly where you want to be Ea n MR 370 TN Do not place exactly on an existing waypoint otherwise you will be clicking on waypoint and details will be shown If the screen center cross is not over an existing waypoint simply clicking on it i e CLICK on the CENTER SCREEN CROSS will make that position your current position Click either shortly or longer it depends on your configuration LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 30 e f you clicked correctly a message will appear A UZATE al 249 Mig e Exit Pan mode position is now updated Enl ES IA LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 31 Screen View IBOX mode IBOX or InfoBox mode is the old XCSoar modality for viewing flight values beside the moving map It is now obsoleted by the LK InfoPages however it has been revised and adapted to make it useable also in landscape mode In portrait mode it is still the best solution for small screen size devices 3 5 inches namely TO EE m TSKETE i 229 EE NN MCREADY TSKSPAV TSKSPI
73. e airport s altitude where you are standing right now pressure has been set to 1021 37 hPa It s kind of magic LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 106 QFE auto calibration QFE is using either GPS altitude or BARO altitude if selected QFE is reset automatically to 0 while on ground It will NOT be reset to zero after landing LK is using a simple QFE approach because it is not considering any pressure It is basically an altitude offset which is fixed and related either to GPS or BARO altitude For this reason changing QNH while airborn will not change QFE accordingly QFE manual reset QFE can also be reset manually from CONFIG 3 3 menu button You will be asked for confirmation Procedure for a successful QNH Auto Calibration A correct approach to let QNH be set automatically when using for example a FLARM connected or any other instrument providing baro altitude is the following owitch on all instruments but do not connect the baro altitude instrument to LK8000 yet Wait for a valid GPS fix Wait for at least 30 seconds for the baro altitude to settle Even better 1 minute Connect now the baro altitude instrument to LK8000 It doesn t matter if the baro altitude instrument is also sending GPS data but it is important that in this case a valid fix is available LK8000 will receive the GPS fix understand your position check that your position is very near your home airport and that you are
74. e talking about then use a predefined polar and do not change anything inside Basic Settings but probably you should ask a mate for some help about these things as welll LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 108 Winpilot Polar file example All lines starting with a are comments of course Field 1 Gross weight of the glider excluding ballast when the values were measured Field 2 Max ballast you can load water It will add wing loading separately Field 3 4 5 6 7 8 are couples of speed sink rate in km h and m s These values are used to create an interpolated curve of sink rates Field 9 New and Optional Normally winpilot does not have this value Put here at all cost the glider wing surface area in square meters m2 If the polar curve you are using does not have this value go on wikipedia to find the wing area for that glider and add it after a comma Here is the polar for a glider 330 that during test flight was weighting 330kg including pilot and everything that can load extra 90 liters of water ballast that at 75km h has a sink rate of 0 7 m s at 93 km h of 0 74 at 185 km h sinks at 3 1 m s and finally that has a wing surface of 10 6 m2 90 5 0 0 7 93 0 0 74 185 00 3 1 10 6 Thus the polar was calculated with a default wing loading of 31 1 kg m2 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 109 VisualGlide VisualGlide draws on the map screen some arcs eac
75. ecben lott auadiasnenasn tU i u Ecc dut eieE 50 TIRE tots eisctemticosshesde a den Lb cue P eae cree econ dewalt dunn a eee EE o CoD EO dua DE bac UE 60 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 127 SUIS OCS IE BR HE r a T T 60 TNT PESARNT soutenu ebat notula bu idu amare LIP in eoo att 61 DOUc M0 oe pene Cee OR uc ee ne re E eee ee ee 61 Radio SCIPIO aero tonya 6l FEARMNE T eaaa NE N N RR 6l Waat S RINNE T Fireman o A a 6l Using FLARMNET database on LK amp S000 iet e e rra teo tete Reno ane ben hee erred Rene Sehr vea ERR Eres 62 Usine TocabbI ARMIDS datdbaSE iter ortos eoa pi EE UMeas Mire E E Eae e Edi UTR uS 62 TRXATEEIC On IVEY tS INVA ia sanct eite oda E 63 REAL TRAFFIC GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES toi tcstseuesbetystenepueueiee Cop ea Benavente Ree uu esie tup a ena gius 63 GLOBALTRAFFICLIMID i cC 64 MOVING MAP TRAFFIC EDIDI iii sdetssuntaiscusndoto divae toe pma dellesun oie euet desee pea duties m atop dms 64 SPECIAECERATPIC PAGES aeo aisiitesapetdtttin a a a 64 TROXDPICTLISTENGE T escas en ee nee er eee een eT ene See eee eer ee een ere 65 DRAG PIC VAD S PAGE auti edo edo ME obse idend M Loud DM eeu s Ubi ere MD A cub Izd P Aus 65 Esc name DUO Me crac creel mue r estate bud unte ruse tse sta tones used undue suut E 66 Target Follow Button entering StarFighter Mode eeeeeessssseseeeeeeeeeneeeeene nnne nnns 66 ptarErehter TRAFFIC PAGE A state ordain T o a unenecd aus ian DIR ee POI
76. ed by LK8000 at startup and it will require about 5 seconds before the first screenshot appears You will listen to the startup tone of LK8000 nevertheless before loading Flarmnet If you are using FLARM connected to LK8000 it is strongly suggested you also use FLARMNET database Using local FLARMIDS database You can also create a minimal reduced database of IDs so that at least the glider name appears in place of those unreadable dd1234 numbers The local Flarm ids database is located inside _Configuration and it is called FLARMIDS TXT It is editable by you anytime It is made of lines of this kind dd1234 D9876 where dd1234 is the Flarm id see Flarmnet instructions for explanation and D9876 is the name you are giving to this unit You may also use dd1234 PAUL The max length of each ID name is 10 characters On the moving map only 3 characters are displayed they are taken from the Name using the first and the last 2 characters Example for a name D 1234 the abbreviated name is D34 The max number of local Flarm ids is 50 Over this you should consider to share the traffic information with other people and update the FlarmNet public database Since FlarmNet database has more information available on traffic it is better to join the FlarmNet community and integrate local databases to the public common one LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 62 TRAFFIC on the Moving Map You can display traff
77. ems too late to turn back for it The situation does not look that critical though Until this message appears on the screen a BestAlternate WARNING NO LANDINGS L 4 me E di E SSS Locarno cce mem 44 3 220 Now you know that straight flight won t get you anymore to that outlanding and you may be in troubles Think in advance Do not let this message ever appear on your screen The BestAlternate function is not available for Paragliders Delta even if they configured landable waypoints LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 93 Takeoff and Landing detection oince some functions are only available while the aircraft is on ground for example the auto QFE reset access to Profiles configuration of FLARM etc it is important to understand how the takeoff is detected and how the landing is detected Moreover the internal logger will automatically start logging if configured to do so at takeoff and stop logging after landing For gliders e Takeoff is detected when above 40 km h for at least 10 seconds e Landing is detected when below 40 Km h for at least 60 seconds at less than 300m AGL For paragliders e Takeoff is detected when above 5 km h for at least 10 seconds e Landing is detected when below 5 Km h for at least 10 minutes e landing is forced when Logger is stopped while speed is below 5kmh LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 94 Battery
78. ending through NMEA Thus you will always get correct wind in real time No need to use TrueWind The TrueWind calculation is nevertheless available Assuming you are doing tests on Condor to use TrueWind you will need to keep speed and heading as usual just like if you had no IAS available LK8000 knows that you are using Condor and if you are asking for TrueWind it will let you have it as in a real glider with no cheating You don t need to change device name TrueWind with a Delta or a Paraglider Normally on a Delta or Para you don t have an analog compass so you don t know your real heading some instruments such as Garmin 76S series do have an electronic compass available but it is working only when correctly positioned otherwise it is giving random values You may buy a good trekking compass which is always a good idea also for navigation in case the GPS fails to work Airspeed is available on some instruments such as Flytec Compeo Digifly otherwise the best solution is to use the Hands Up speed and of course to put up your hands The basic trim speed for paraglider s wings also for competition wings is 39 km h The TrueWind Period should be lowered to 8 seconds If you don t have either a good compass or the air speed indicator or you can t keep Hands Up speed then it is time to grasp that bottle of Wild Turkey we have been talking about a few pages back and forget TrueWind LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by P
79. eption SEV Oerlinghausen Airfield OERLINGHAUSEN Type Freq Cid LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 65 Rename Button Click on Rename to assign a human readable name to this device It will be saved in FLARMIDS TXT automatically and kept also for next flights Target Follow Button entering StarFighter Mode Click on the Follow Target button in the detail page and LK8000 will keep a special eye on this target This is known as F104 StarFighter mode LK will reply with TARGET LOCKED and you will be instantly moved to page 4 3 the tracking page StarFighter TRAFFIC PAGE 4 3 The StarFighter page is giving a lot of information and a graphic experience of what s happening in front of you NL ALG G dQ XJ Target name is reported and its status 4 3 Sight D 3 167 LIVE GHOST or ZOMBIE Dist l 1 1 J Dist distance to the target with one rr decimal digit elAS RelAlt 100 BN NE 7 2 elAS estimated Air Speed of the target Var30 calculated using its ground speed air 1 1 density at its altitude and corrected for the wind It is pretty accurate ReqE Var30 Average lift value in the last 30 seconds TC Gain TC 30 C Avg Th All oClimb 109 40 7 40 5 40 6 81 4 ReqE Required efficiency to reach the target at its altitude Very important If the target is circling in a thermal 8 km far away you will Know how fast you can fly rough
80. er and an inner cylinder as a turnpoint until you pass the inner cylinder you can still do a Task Restart with the shortcut Important notices about Time Gates The time value under the countdown is referred to the MC you have set It is NOT using your average speed It takes into account the wind towards the cylinder either in exit or enter mode If you are in the correct side of start gate as you should you will always know when it is time to go crossing the start gate The calculation is assuming you will go straight to the start of course with no thermalling or zigzagging So when you see for example 01 09 00 08 it means 1 minute and 9 seconds to go start gate and if you point now towards the gate at the MC speed you will get there 8 seconds after opening with no penalities When you are in the wrong side of cylinder before gate is open distance will be RED and instead of countdown you will read either BAD inSIDE or BAD outSIDE meaning it is wrong to be inside because you must enter from outside or vice versa If you start LK with a running task on time gates and one gate is already open you will need to do a Task Restart in order to advance to next time gate and see the countdown It might not be obvious but it is normal a start gate is already open Automatic task restart when crossing again the start line does not of course work when time gates are configured The Gate time system currently will not allow
81. ered aircrafts and their unit ids You can download them from http www Flarmnet org choosing the WinPilot format and saving the file as either data fln or Flarmnet fln More information about this file is available in the Traffic part of this manual A file called DEFAULT PROFILE PHF is there too This is the default last saved configuration All configuration parameters are there together with device dependent parameters like screen size button positions etc You should NOT manually change this file You can copy or rename it but not change it DO NOT IMPORT OR EXPORT any PROFILE file to other devices Doing so will force a device to use screen resolution and other peculiar settings for the wrong hardware Logger Logger will contain IGC files and NMEA text files created by the software while logging Maps This directory contains terrain and topology files for your moving map Although old XCSoar maps are still usable LK8000 has its own map sets called LKMAPS You can download LKMAPS from http www bware it listing LKMAPS You will need a terrain elevation file named with a DEM suffix and a topology file named with LIKM suffix Both files are optional of course More on this topic later in this manual If you are still using old XCSoar maps then terrain files are named with DAT suffix example Terrain Dem Dat while XCM files are ZIP files containing both topology and terrain and sometimes even waypoints and airspac
82. es This is very confusing not to mention the fact that DAT files have also the same suffix of winpilot s waypoints Although for some time old XCSoar maps are still supported you are strongly suggested to use LKMAPS all the way and be prepared to the fact that old stuff will not be supported nor usable inside LK8000 very soon Polars This folder has an example of how to create your own polar file Most polars are already embedded in the software A chapter of this manual explains how to create a polar file as well Unless you are keen on creating polars and very concerned about what this does mean you will be using internally available polars In case a polar is not existing in the embedded list and you are creating your own please send it as a contribution to the developers so we can add it to the list and other pilots will appreciate your work too Task This is the place where TSK files are created Task files are not compatible with XCSoar From time to time we change the format of task files mainly because we are still working on the task system inside LK8000 In this case a warning message will inform you that you cannot load a file being an old version LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 9 A default task is always created even when you do a simple goto For LK8000 it doesn t matter if a task is made of a single waypoint final destination for landing for example or a real multipoint task It is al
83. es as just stated right key same as above aircraft key to call up menu DUE Tw ct Short vs longer clicks on the Bottom Bar custom keys We anticipate here one concept the custom keys By default clicking on the Bottom Bar will default to the actions we have just described However LK8000 gives you the opportunity to configure longer clicks on the Bottom Bar and assign them an action This is what we call Custom Keys On some screen sizes mainly 3 5 inches and below it may be difficult to select the aircraft icon because of the narrow display In this case the center Bottom Bar longer click can be configured to call the main menu A chapter will describe the Custom Keys later Let s start from the navboxes as they are common to all screen modes LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 16 NavBoxes on the Bottom Bar The black Bottom Bar is showing five values on some high resolution devices such as HP314 six values are shown We also call the Bottom Bar Navboxes There are several stripes of values and you can change stripes by clicking on the right or on the left part of the Bottom Bar TT SR LIDnIOne a Clicking on the right will move to next stripe clicking on the left will move to the previous stripe When you get to the first stripe a higher CLICK sound is played otherwise a tone is played This way you can change stripes getting to the first one without looking at the screen
84. etc On SD cards it is better to never delete files if you have plenty of memory space still available This way you will be using the entirely memory without rewriting old space Your SD card will last much longer and you won t get problems even after years of usage Only when your SD card is running out of space then remove older log files The same applies for tasks waypoints and logger files of course If for any reason you cannot find waypoints and map files from the LK configuration menu search for the RUNTIME LOG file it should be placed beside the _Waypoints folder and Logger folder etc This file is human readable with a text editor In case of problems running LK before asking on the support forum please carefully check this RUNTIME file The latest session is always recorded at the bottom 246585421 Starting LK8B8B8B u1 21 Jul 25 2818 PC builditi668 246585421 Running made Simulator 246485421 Free ram 159897 stnrage 371175 246585437 Deleting registry key 246585437 Registry key was correctly deleted 256585453 Initialize application instance 256585453 InitScreen ize 646x486 256585453 InitHeuHap 2565854553 Restore registry 246585515 Read registry settings 246485531 Loading default PNA settings 246585531 StatusFileInit 246585593 Create main window 24654855903 InfoBox geometry 256585593 Load unit bitmaps 256585593 Create info boxes 24658550
85. g visibility inside a cloud remember that looking at your analog magnetic compass will result in fake turning indications when heading east or west and accelerating or decelerating See the TrueWind explanation about this In this case believe that a turning rate indicator even if affected by 1 2 seconds delay is better than an analog magnetic compass Bottom line do not enter clouds unless you have real gyroscopic equipment LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 38 Screen Mode Nearest The nearest pages are calculated in real time and updated on screen every 5 seconds It is intentionally done like this so you may calmly read the values The first Nearest page is for Airports that you have configured inside waypoint files either SeeYou or Winpilot There are basically two kinds of landing places for LK airports airfields and outlandings Airports and Landables in waypoint files LK8000 will load your waypoint files and set a type status for each of them depending on how it is declared in the file There are three waypoint file types SeeYou WinPilot and CompeGPS WinPilot For WinPilot DAT files the old standard for XCSoar the type flags are used e Flag A will set airport status and automatically also Landable status of course e Flag L will set landable status but not airports Thus it is an outlanding If both A and L are in the field it is assumed to be an Airport Basically an outlanding
86. ges concerning traffic Safety messages are ignored by LK8000 IT IS NOT SAFE TO DO OTHERWISE In all other cases LK8000 will do miracles for you LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 60 Configuring FLARM Baud Rate FLARM can transmit NMEA frames at almost any baud rate which is configurable However below 19200bps it will not transit traffic information only GPS position and baro altitude For this reason it is important that at least 19200bps is set as port speed talking to a FLARM unit First you link up LK to the FLARM using the current baud rate maybe 4800 or 9600bps Once the FLARM is seen by LK a message on the screen will appear Now you can enter the FLARM config menu buttons explained a few pages back and set BAUD rate to 19200 or 38400bps LK will send commands to the external FLARM FLARM will not acknowledge this operation but you will know it was accomplished because LK will stop talking to FLARM all of a sudden FLARM is in fact now talking at the new baud rate while LK is still using the old one You must now enter system config menu and change port speed on LK FLARM will be back visible Normally the change is permanent in the FLARM unit Radio Range By default each time you switch on a FLARM it is configured to pass to LK only information concerning traffic within 3 km This is not good we must tell FLARM to pass all information regardless of the object s distance The Co
87. get to Mottarone which is now 10km far The glide ratio in use is the average one calculated on a selectable period of time 2 minutes by default LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 110 VisualGlide limiters Minimum glide ratio accepted is 1 4 of your best LD and maximum glide ratio accepted is your best LD In other words even if you fly with tail wind at 30 better than your best LD factor VG will limit your glide to best LD anyway This is because we want to paint a conservative value without tail wind and or energetic routes On the contrary if you are flying in a head wind or simply at a higher MC VG will show your real glide ratio Please understand that the VisualGlide is only painting your current Glide Ratio on the moving map without considering safety issues of any kind If it is windy and you change direction remember that your glide ratio will be fully valuable only after the configured period of time for averaging VisualGlide does not account for wind It simply uses the wind effect on your ground efficiency Visual glide can also be used to simply visualize distances on the map if you ignore the height values Distances are an absolute value and are always correctly scaled on your map LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 111 EXTERNAL PROGRAMS EXECUTION FROM LK8000 Starting from LK8000 1 22 users can define external programs that need to be run before and
88. h one representing a loss of height and a distance It is triggered by VisualGlide menu button inside Menu Display 1 The represented loss of height is in units of 100m or 300ft depending on the metrics you chose and it is calculated based on your current glide ratio This screenshot is showing a real usage of VG during flight you are about to leave terrain and mountain to cross a large lake How do you know how far is the next possible thermal point How large is the lake What will the height loss be approximately if you keep flying as in the past minutes The VisualGlide will let you know all of this information at a glance In the picture we can immediately read the distance to the top of the next mee GS i mountain after crossing the lake it is 118 1895 2s after the third circle On the second circle we read 7km and on the 4th circle not visible much in this shot 14km So each arc in this picture represents 3 5km Now we know that the top of Mottarone mountain is about 12km away We also know that with the current glide ratio of 36 see the big number of the left of map we shall approximately lose something more than 300m of height If the glide ratio changes those arcs are changed as well with their values in A minute later while we are on the oS ek downwind part of the mountain that we N are leaving our glide ratio falls down to 26 With this glide ratio we would loose 400m height to
89. hanging overlay s color You can change the default overlay colors from system config menu 11 11 Appearance By default overlays are painted BLACK Basic Glider position PRESE Alternate You can change this color to White Orange Cyan _ Magenta Blue Yellow etc K UDEDECES CS Boxed with ur EEEREN ArrivalAltitude Some colors will not be reversed by the Invert Text Teena yee ene ONS button some others will Waypoints Text style Values white Overlays color Black Turnpoints filter No landables Hide units OFF m GS Alt Dis V 229 34 0 In the picture Green overlays were chosen LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 79 The Snail Trail While you are flying a snail trail will display on the moving map your trace Below 3km zoom this trace is colored otherwise it is painted blue for better visibility Colors are showing lifts and sinks in the air e For Gliders netto vario either real or estimated is used for calculating lifts and sinks e For paragliders and delta the vario either real or calculated is otherwise used mac 5 xl Green yellow and red are showing lift Blue violet and black are showing sinks On a ridge it is thus easy to spot good points for turning Ins 47 TL Avg GS 494 2695 With a higher zoom level colors would simply melt on the little moving map screen so they are not used A blue line is more visible i Xs a n Ski 1
90. he Flymaster F1 device including battery information external battery 1 and 2 voltage and battery bank in use LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 56 FLARM Flarm is automatically detected and the barometric altitude will be automatically available Device type should be set to Generic and Use barometric altitude should be set ON e Ifthe connection is at 19200bps or higher speed Flarm will also send traffic information e fthe connection is at 4800 or 9600bps Flarm will NOT be sending out traffic information LK8000 has a special menu for Flarm which is accessible from Menu Config 3 3 o cere x 8 ILS ViREBOOT This menu is available clickable only when a Flarm is actually detected oome of these functions and submenus are available only when on ground and not during flight e REBOOT will cause immediate reset of Flarm It will restart automatically e NORMAL NMEA will force Flarm to use normal settings for NMEA data including traffic information If port speed is not below 19200bps Baud Rate menu If you see this menu then you are already connected to the Flarm unit You can choose a different communication speed 38400 is suggested for traffic information After selecting the port speed Flarm will start using that speed immediately and thus the LK8000 will give a warning about lost GPS connection Go inside system config menu and change baud rate accordingly
91. he NMEA stream together with GPS information Nowadays many instruments are integrating FLARM offering basic or advanced interfaces to the pilots Butterfly Avionics is offering beautiful displays for FLARM with extended functionalities and an incredibly good radar page at an affordable price for example When LK8000 is receiving traffic information on one serial port no matter if it is port A or port B it automatically enables traffic pages and makes use of the incoming data All FLARM devices offer at least a basic LED panel which was carefully designed to give the pilot all information at a glance after a sound alert is issued In a fraction of a second the pilot knows if the traffic is higher or lower and its relative position The pilot is supposed to look out then and keep the traffic under his eyes For a collision avoidance system nothing else is required Be aware of this if GPS HAS NO VALID FIX then your position cannot be broadcasted by the FLARM If you are flying on a ridge where television broadcasting antennas are transmitting their tons of watts in the air your GPS may loose position or your FLARM s transmission at a few milliwatts may be totally covered by those antenna s signal Careful An interesting side effect of traffic data is that many pilots are keen during cross country flights or during competitions to know more about nearby people Who s that glider What is the radio frequency to talk to the pilot up ther
92. he cockpit you cannot be accurate either Under all of these circumstances LK can be used with no problems It was made for these situations It was made for pilots airborne not only for pilots on ground Blind clicks Not enough You can change pages and information on LK without even looking at the screen You actually can change pages on LK even with your eyes closed by just listening to the sounds We have designed custom sounds with frequencies that your ears can easily perceive also in noisy environments And your brain will automatically identify these sounds to LK s pages During normal use you will soon be able to change pages and there are a lot of them without directly looking at the screen This will help you to maintain effective lookout LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 12 The welcome screen LK8000 does not offer screen buttons for most of its functions You don t need to be precise for selecting an invisible button since it is generally easy to locate its screen area While you are using LK pressing on the screen clicking can be done with short long or very long timings producing different results The most important and frequently used functions are available with short clicks After startup you are asked to click on Center Screen That s not a short click and requires at least half a second Then you are given the main LK8000 screen which is made of a Moving Map page and of a Botto
93. headings the compass indicates a turn toward south The word ANDS Acceleration North Deceleration South may help you to remember the acceleration error LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 103 How to get along with acceleration errors on compass readouts In two words ignore them After Step 1 accomplish step 2 without bothering to look at the compass Keep concentrated on the airspeed instead Assume that your compass is still reading OK and it is not really turning Acceleration is making the compass turn if you are heading East or West or nearby But as you can verify by yourself your aircraft is not really turning is it Once you are satisfied with Step 1 level your roll angle and go for Step 2 and once Step 2 is over ask for results on Step 3 Do not look at the compass after Step 1 or you will go crazy North and South vs East and West As you can understand from the previous explanation your compass won t suffer too much while you accelerate towards N or S This is making N and S direction easier to point to looking at the compass However any direction is OK as long as you know how to get along with wrong compass readings How does it work How does the TrueWind know that you are heading north for example if you don t have a digital compass That is another trick with some limits Let s assume you have chosen N E S W button trying to keep north on your compass We assume that if your
94. ic objects on the moving map if you choose so in config menu 13 13MapOverlays Screen Data AMETS CT C PASTE Glide terrain line Glide Bar indicator Variometer Bar Thermal Bar Uae ON AEU a ON Scaled Normally you will choose SCALED objects otherwise they will be very small at low zoom levels Then they will appear around you when they are transmitted by FLARM to LK with either a green or yellow icon REAL TRAFFIC GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES FLARM will not send to LK all information about current live traffic Since this information is sent together with normal position NMEA sentences the available bandwidth for transmission would be soon saturated For this reason we are not granted that all traffic is reported to an external device such as LK8000 at all costs This is a very important statement Whenever LK receives information about another Flarm device which is identified by its ID and or by a Flarmnet or Local name it updates its last time seen record and sets it to REAL traffic This traffic will remain REAL up to 15 seconds after last data reception REAL traffic appears with a green icon on the moving map After 15 seconds with no updated information this traffic becomes a GHOST its icon becomes YELLOW on the moving map and light yellow and italic on the textual list After 1 minute has passed since this traffic was updated by FLARM sending us a new position it becomes a ZOMBIE A ZOMBIE is NOT
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96. ill be available as usual on the external card and you will be ready to takeoff with no problems SD CARD INSTALL Choose a fast SD CARD Do not choose a cheap and slow SD card Performance will be greatly degraded For example you may choose any of the Sandisk Ultra series Your device may or may not support SDHC cards so be careful to choose an SD that your device can really read and write Unzip the content of the 1 22 zip archive inside the main directory of the SD card If you have temporarily connected the SD card on your PC for installing LK you may see the external disk drive as E for example In this case after unzip you should see a directory called EALK8000 Inside that directory you find the executables the dll libraries and all of the needed subdirectories For a first time install you must always install a complete stable version with the complete LK8000 folder Upgrade versions which may be distributed with executables only are installed over the complete stable versions When you request the LK8000 software the full version and latest upgrade version will be clearly identified Caution with SD card and USB cables Be aware of the following many users experienced odd problems with their SD cards after they connected the PNA or PDA to the PC with a USB cable and changed files on the card It is strongly suggested not to use USB cable connection to the PC for changing files on the SD card e Always use an external
97. imate in this phase In any case this search is limited to 100KM Notice that if you are over 100km away from the nearest landing point you can t really expect a computer to be helpful in case of troubles You are the pilot BestAlternate is only a suggestion and it may fail drastically for many reasons such as an incorrect terrain data an incorrect QNH reading an incorrect waypoint list etc For each landing point LK8000 calculates the estimated altitude arrival taking into account e your current altitude e the landing point altitude SAFETY Arrival Height configured in system menu 6 Safety Factors e your glider Polar bugs and ballast e a glide at MacCready set to SafetyMC configured in system menu 6 Safety Factors otherwise at MC 0 It is suggested to set 0 5 as a safety factor there e current wind e terrain obstacles Even if we already use a SAFETY arrival height and a safety glide at an higher MC we still can t accept an arrival 1m over safety That is 2m away from being unreachable So we raise this value to 100m So we select only those landing points that have an Arrival Height 100m over Safety altitude This is an additional safety margin called OverSafety We sort this list from the best the highest arrival altitude available to the worst ALL of them passing point 1 2 and 3 All of them are good and all of them are considered Reachables For each reachable landing point in this list we calc
98. in Current Thermal altitude Gain TC 30 Thermal average lift in last 30 seconds TC Avg Current Thermal average since the beginning of circling Th All all thermal average so far also called daily thermal average This value is also reset by a Task Restart You may normally leave the thermal when TC 30 is lower than TC Avg You may set MC value to either Th All or TC Avg which will become TL Avg after leaving the thermal and starting back in cruise mode LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Info Page 1 3 Task 1 3 I QE PET Dis Ta Reg E E Avg 31 4 90 20 2 OO NxtArr Brg E Cru E 20 786 256 33 160 TSkArr TskDis TskCov TskRegE 818 31 4 20 2 TSskArrhted TSKETE TskSp ManMECc 818 16 12 0 0 TL Avg GS Alt Dis ReqE 1 0 96 1937 31 4 20 25 First 8 values are the same as in Cruise mode The next 8 values are different TskArr Arrival altitude to complete the whole task TskDis Remaining distance to complete the task TskCov Task distance covered so far TskReqE Requested efficiency to complete the task TskArrMCO Arrival altitude to complete the task at MC 0 TskETE Estimated Time Enroute to complete the task task time to go TskSp Achieved task speed LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Info Page 1 4 Custom 1 4 Custom 40 21 36 Reg E Radial T eamCode T eamDis 20 1 347 YN3G Teamed QFE alt Odom 6411 12 9 TC Gain TC 30
99. is explaining how to configure them You know now that topology labels are at the bottom of things to be printed on screen after landables and waypoints only if there is space left on the screen This is important to understand how to configure them properly LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 47 CONFIGURING LKMAPS FOR YOUR DEVICE Once you have chosen LKMAPS in Config 1 menu they are visible on your screen The chosen LKM topology file may be small or big in size and holding few or a lot of information about your territory A highly populated area may have hundreds of small towns while a desert are may have none Same for Streets etc By default LK8000 will make the best possible usage of your topology with no need to configure anything There are some cases however where some tuning is necessary expecially if you are using a slow device Some devices such as smartphones have a very fast CPU but a very slow graphic processor or its usage is not fully supported or optimized by LK8000 Some other devices simply have a slow CPU Remember LK is running on hundreds of very different devices ranging from 10 year old PDAs to the latest 1Ghz Chinese 800x480 smart Car Navigator Configure topology menu Config menu 4 Terrain Display has two configuration options for this purpose 4 Terrain Display Terrain display ON Topology display ON oo Terrain contrast Terrain brightness Terrain colors SAUE
100. it is printed RED indicating you will arrive too early and your start will not be valid The time difference is calculated using your MC value corrected for the wind towards the cylinder Of course once the pilot crosses the start cylinder in the correct direction with a valid time gate open a TASK START is assumed and overlays will disappear Later on this again LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 116 Time Gates sounds and messages 10 minutes before a gate is opening the message 10 MINUTES TO GO appear on screen and the HI TONE sound is played 5 minutes before a gate is opening the message 5 MINUTES TO GO appear on screen and HI TONE sound is played 1 minute before start only 3 HI TONES sound is played with no messages on screen This is because the pilot might be busy looking on the moving map for his position and the status message would hide for some seconds the map Gate OPEN When a gate becomes open a long HORN tone is played and a message GATE IS OPEN appears on the screen y ti i a d z START 11 45 229 7 Albenga B countdown qam Ot Oa 8 40 0 0 ivio i iy V kh YalbremboNe 01 2 26 JA Ses Mord dl iw M NAVAL AS e e A AE GS Alt Dis Req E Ok 229 5 8m START i ns GATE OPEN VM PS f DE wd TL Avg GS Alt Dis Reg E Ow 2 29n 5 z 8 GATE OPEN appears now also under the START time on the right
101. ite accurate or very wrong sometimes Especially if you are using a car navigator GPS the reported altitude can be very wrong during thermalling If you have no Baro Altitude available or you haven t selected it inside config menu 5 then this GPS altitude is going to be used internally for all calculations QNH altitude can use either GPS or Baro altitude Normally you should use as main infobox the QNH altitude because it will always tell you what is being used internally QFE Altitude QFE Automatic QFE This altitude value is using GPS or Baro altitude and it is constantly reset to O on ground before taking off After takeoff it is no more reset automatically even if on ground Changing QFE does not affect QNH calculations QFE is not used for calculations it is only a reference for the pilot Alt Altitude QNH This is the height above mean sea level reported by the GPS or by the Baro sensor if pressure altitude is available and it selected to be used It is the altitude used internally for all calculations GPS altitude and Baro altitude infoboxes are available too One of those two values is used for the QNH altitude Use THIS altitude as MAIN reference since this is the one being used by LK8000 et Battery Battery On PDA and PNA systems this gives the percent battery capacity available If ending with a C it means that the battery is under charge if ending with a D it means that battery is discharging LK8000 v1 22 USER MAN
102. k on Cancel to hide the menu Clicking on Screen Views from main menu will pop up this submenu Zoom In and Out are changing map scale like with the shortcuts of virtual keys mentioned earlier Let s look at Set Map PAN mode and IBOX mode vecchia LAT L E E i Ae E adam n Pil i adernao L E simm ee T gra P T um m ann ELATI i fae Ce LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 27 Screen Views Set Map Change position of the glider and screen orientation during flight A general screen orientation button is inside MENU DISPLAY 3 3 Map Orient where you will be able to choose among all choices that are also available inside System configuration n Im 1 LE i ga CT Y m H i a Here you can quickly toggle between North Up and Track Up with North while circling At the same time you can reposition the aircraft on the screen to better suit your navigation The Center Default button will reset aircraft to the position configured inside System menu 11 Appearance PA i rio 5 Be elbrembo Cori T al Ba d I ee ii Mai d V DL F ee ee A F a AREN S ug r Rr un a ir ur Mil quem Pui 22 NAM Em y n T F PE J E IL Avg 35 Keg E Ww GS Alt 230 SS 0 220290 Examples of repositioning the aircraft usi
103. know which page you have just selected without even looking at the screen This is what we call blind clicking LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 14 ALZATE miN ao 11 13 07 14 3410 i LJ m 3 0 g sauf Ec GS Alt Dis Req E 229 340 FA Moving Map 2 1 APTS 1 1 Dist Dir gi ALBREMBO 0 0 172 e 10 2 127 34 0 81 36 6 123 54 9 889 61 5 599 CALCINATE 64 8 81 BOSCOMANT 107 3 105 GS Alt Dis Ou 2 pis 3 4 Oken Nearest pages I 4 1 TRF 1 1 Dist dd980b 0 1 1927 2 2 59 V3 D 3167 0 2 1509 1 7 630 TC Gain TC 30 TC Avg Th All Climb L 1 4 k Qr 0 x Qr 0 E 6r 1 Ds e Traffic pages if connected to a FLARM 11 13 13 Dis E Avg To 34 0 81 oO NxtArr Brg E 20 1007 279 Alt Trk GS 0 Um Th All E ManMC 0 0 Alt Dis Rea E 229 34 0 x 1 1 Cruise Alzate 3 1 COMN 1 1 Dist Dir rEff ALBREMBO 0 0 172 ALZATE 34 0 819 GS Alt Dis Req E 229 34 0 amnia LAS Common pages LK8000 screen mode rotation ocreen modes are changed by short clicking the center key on the Bottom Bar LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 15 You will notice that all modes share the same Bottom Bar with few exceptions ibox mode and pan mode are described later Short clicks on the Bottom Bar are thus left key used by navboxes next chapter center key to change screen mod
104. locking the glide Since we are not in a H glide range nothing special on the map sizate 24619 TET Oia Dis Req E Om 1829 50 4 40 2 If a destination IS WITHIN GLIDE RANGE and one or more obstacles are detected arrival altitude is painted RED as well as required glide ratio in map overlays Now at 1929m QNH we are theoretically within glide range with 23m altitude arrival However mountains are a big obstacle LD and Arrival altitude are r md RA A ja 2X painted RED to give a warning that in Meee Gorenovag 9 mas wm Spite of the positive values there are i s Wi ae m r L i j F 1 c HR a Pastupohy lo wi od problems to proceed The bearing line 4 t v d h as two red crosses i The first red cross is marking the very first obstacle we shall meet 44 meters are missing to pass the obstacle That esca 44 number is telling us that it is probably ETUR a s im cd os a steep mountain otherwise it could be HAY a I5 nel A EM a lower number or no number at all 0 0 0 n 1929 50 4 37 2 at only across The second red cross is marking the second obstacle we shall meet The number is telling us that in order to make it to the destination we need about 1250m That s a lot for a 50km glide but the mountains are pretty high there We are assuming a Safety MC to the obstacle since we have set MC 0 0 but that s a landable point and SafetyMC is always applied o e ate LK8000 v1 22 USER
105. lot will wait for the next gate in 5 minutes in this case x If there are no more gates available and the current open gate is the last one then instead of next start time the CLOSE time is shown This is the maximum available time to cross the start The countdown timer is still counting the time passed since the gate was open T 21 12 05 SIART 21 00 j CLOSE 21 15 p 12 05 A Valbrembo Start 4 4 i 18 5 NW op 229 There are no alerts and warnings e about the close time When the time MEN is over the waypoint name changes Alt LIS seq to CLOSED and on the right part of 229m 34 0 screen GATES CLOSED and NO TSK START appears When the gates are closed the only way to restart or to change a task is to disable or change the time gates page from configuration so be careful LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 118 Forcing a TASK RESTART If you decide not to start in the current open gate you necessarily need to do a Task Restart Until you restart the task the gate remains OPEN for the LK8000 and countdown is showing the time passed since the gate was open not the time to go for the next gate In fact the Start waypoint name is still showing the current open gate not the next one if available Also in case you crossed the start cylinder and a valid start was detected and you want to restart well of course you need a task res
106. lues are correctly shown inside Config System menu If the current and new configuration differs in minor simple things then there will be no problems Here the problem is that the profile you are loading is loaded OVER the old configuration currently in memory It does NOT reset values that are not saved inside new profile over old ones Bottom line whenever possible load your profiles only from startup e Profiles menu in config 3 3 is NOT accessible during flight e tis not advisable to change modify edit profiles with a text editor If you are changing settings inside ENGINEERING menu which is never a good thing then you Remember that while saving a profile you are also saving settings inside ENGINEERING menu are aware of possible consequences LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 977 TrueWind Calculation v1 TrueWind lets you know wind speed and direction during a straight glide Normally the wind is calculated and automatically set only during thermalling While thermalling LK will still calculate and set the wind as before as TrueWind is a user triggered optional function By set the wind we mean adopt the calculated wind and let it be used by the software appearing as the current wind You can however just look at the TrueWind calculated values and not set them for real usage Normally to calculate the wind direction and intensity during straight flight we need to know ground speed ground cou
107. ly to reach him correctly and enter that thermal too To Bearing difference to the target position RelAlt Altitude of the target relative to YOU not the contrary Positive if target is higher negative is target is lower than you Arr Arrival altitude at the target position estimated using your current MC wind ballast etc Positive If you are expected to arrive higher than him or negative if lower The SIGHT cross with the plane icon is representing your REAL altitude relative to the target once you get there It is very important to understand this concept You may be higher than a target now but when you get there you may be lower than him LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 66 _ LK8000 i E x Basically you can use the Sight to keep under 4 3 Sight dd980b control your glide toward a target You must Dist keep the cross centered and you will be happy 0 to get there at the maximum possible speed elAS 103 The glider will disappear from the Sight if it is at your back Var3 1 3 RegE Arr 1 37 A tutoring mode is announced as well in future version to let you know hos your pupil is doing behind you You won t need to ask him all the a time by radio TC Gain TC 30 TC Avg Th All SoC limb 2 eu 3 1 ms 1 a 6 0 Ons The glider in the Sight will be yellow or red colored if Ghost of Zombie as usual StarFighter TRAFFIC PAGE 4 2 gt LKg000 En x 4 2 Target dd980b E
108. m Finish Type Cylinder Sector Radius 400m 17 Infobox circling 1 Thermal Gain or Average thermal strength Home distance Next ETE Task distance Task Alt Arrival Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage o 0050 HN 19 Infobox Aux 1 Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage Altitude QNH Speed ground Next Waypoint Wind Speed MacCready Setting CON o1 BB GN 22 System Use GPS time On Autoback Light On Auto SoundVolume On Courtesy of Sergio Silva 13 Map Overlays Screen Data Full Map Overlay MacGready Value Enabled Glide Terrain line Shade Glide Bar indicator Next Turnpoint Variometer Bar Vario Rainbow Thermal Bar Off Track Line Off FLARM on map Off 16 Infobox cruise 1 Speed Dolphin Home distance Next ETE Task Distance Task Alt Arrival Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage CON 01 B NO 18 Infobox Final Glide Speed Dolphin Home distance Next ETE Task Distance Task Alt Arrival Ext Batt Bank Ext Batt 1 Voltage Ext Batt 2 Voltage CONOO BOND 20 Logger Time step cruise 1s Time step circling 1s Short File name Off Autologger On 23 Paragliders Delta Specials Circ zoom Value Standard Cruize zoom 5 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 122 Infobox Values The following is a list of new infoboxes available
109. m Bar LK8000 This is the welcome screen LK is already running LK8000 to proceed you must click on the center of the Tactical Flight Computer screen It is a medium click E e press with your finger and keep pressed LK8000 v1 21j Simulator e count ONE and release Click on center screen to begin That s it you just discovered the average click on the LK 25 WPs 1600 1M free LK8000 v1 21j Jul 25 2010 build 4668 Evolved from XCSoar 5 2 4 by Paolo Ventafridda venta bware it TL Avg GS Alt Dis Req E 0 229 34 0 AE The basic idea in LK is that you always have important information concerning your flight available with no clicks or with a couple of blind clicks A blind click does not require you to be precise as we stated before and can be made without directly looking at the screen Warning messages at startup If LK8000 detects some possible problems at startup it will display them and ask for a confirmation in order to proceed This will happen right in the welcome screen page Warning For example if you have set no safety altitude for landings you will be reminded Onn EEE EEE S In case you misconfigured the software critical parameters are checked at startup so you won t discover problems when you are airborne LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 13 Screen modes in LK8000 and Bottom Bar LK8000 pages have different zones you can click on and generally
110. nabled and disabled any time SW YT EET ON Fixed y Let s start with an empty map with all overlays off You only notice the purple airspace areas and the destination to waypoint has a black bearing line Wind is displayed if available in the bottom left here it is indicated as MacCready Value Enabled 0 0 Vario enabled Rainbow painted with no values in the picture and thus no colors Track line ON The track line works only in trackup mode not in North up It is showing the heading direction of your aircraft as a thin black link In the picture it is pointing to N Orig Dis Pi BERT LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 74 D 2 n ju a I A Se eel er j t gt Ta z teram e Se A o er a TL Avg GS Dis r 0 229 12 9 Dis 12 9 Screen Data Full Overlay Adding a clock and three values on the left oo means infinity too high to display and it is the average glide ratio Then we have the vario 0 0 ms And below ground speed Paragliders Delta Altitude Vario Ground Speed LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL Added Glide Bar Indicator the red bar on the left Screen Data Half Overlay Adding destination waypoint name and distance on top left bearing difference on top center Requested Glide Ratio and Arrival altitude on the right under MC 0 0 Paragliders Delta MC Average Efficiency Arrival Altitu
111. nd topology oystem config menu 1 lets you configure maps NET DEMO LKM waypoints and airspaces I iciBi 3 DEMO 500 DEM LK8000 1 22 has its own maps for terrain an WEM cma DEMO cup ds topology called LKMAPS Waypoints 2 MENNEEEENEE PMeser te m DEMO txt Old XCSoar maps are still valid and can be used Nearer without need to change anything However old eed WAYNOTES Di XCSoar topology TPL files are no more configurable and thus no more usable Wpt outside terrain lt is strongly suggested to use only LKMAPS with LK8000 LKMAPS are much better because e Terrain data is derived from a December 2009 SRIM distribution SRTM is the Shuttle Radar Topology Mission by NASA and it is provided for free for non commercial usage Currently there is a limit am working on terrain is available only below latitudes of 60N and above 57S This means that currently Finland North Norway north Sweden are not available for terrain elevation for example This problem will be solved as soon as possible e Topology data is integrated with new data for cities and roads You can configure what to see at which zoom level using a new topology control inside configuration menu Currently Europe has an enhanced topology that really makes a big difference Rest of the world has only some more cities and town visible This issue will soon be addressed 22 45 48 GEESTE 0 0 T 22 31 44 A UBBERGEN On 6 0 EUM A oar L
112. ned to takeoff even if already existing Thus PGs should not assign a Home Waypoint since it is updated automatically TAKEOFF is never saved to history file and should not be used as a waypoint name To manually assign a HOME choose a waypoint and in its details pages go to the last one where you can find Set as Home If you are on simulator the position on map is instantly updated Just in case it happens if for any reason TAKEOFF is reset it will appear very far away from you Default position for a wrong takeoff location is at Santa Claus home at the North Pole LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 71 Waypoint selection with the smart alpha filter The new alpha filter in the waypoint selection page is powerful and smart NT INN Select Waypoint Name Brunico Dist 55 28 Bruneck Bf Direction I Bruneck Stau Type Bruneck Sw Brunegghorn Select Brunnen Bf Brustoloni M o DUE Text lt Liigi Select Waypoint MI Name Val Canobbin VAL Distance Val Cavallin Val Chiavenn Val Codera Val D Ayas Val D Ossola Val dei Ratt Direction i T D 2 Val di Cogne Val di Fassa LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL Bruneck EbXST T i i When you have a lot of waypoints the list can be very long Click on the Name field 150km 288 161km 332 149km 69 Enter the initials or a part of the desired waypoint s name If selection is u
113. nfig menu buttons for Radio Range will do it silently as well FLARMNET What is FLARMNET Each FLARM unit has a unique internal number serial which is transmitted together with GPS position during operations This number looks like dd1234 and has no meaning to pilots However being unique this number can be associated to glider s Ids pilots airports etc and make it really useful FLARMNET is a free public database of FLARM devices managed by Butterfly Avionics and kindly distributed to people It is basically a text file encoded This file contains a lot of FLARM identifiers with corresponding glider type club or pilot s name radio frequency commonly used etc Any pilot can contribute to the FLARMNET database simply browsing on the http www Flarmnet org To add a FLARM unit to the list click on Register now button It is not about registering a user but a glider It s a bit confusing but try it and in a few minutes you will be done No password needed very simple LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 61 Using FLARMNET database on LK8000 Flarmnet database can be downloaded from http www Flarmnet org for free anytime Choose the Winpilot format and save the data as text file Then rename the file to Flarmnet fin or data fin and put it inside LK8000 Configuration folder LK8000 is searching for either Flarmnet fln or data fln inside Configuration no difference The database will be load
114. ng UP DOWN Left and Right buttons LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 28 What s NORTH SMART North Smart is identical to North Up with one difference the glider position on the map is moving up and down automatically depending on the direction to make more space on the moving map ahead LK will cleverly move the aircraft without reaching top and bottom map limits There will always be space also for territory at your back e North Smart is available in landscape screens only not in portrait screens e When North Smart is selected Screen View menu Set Map is disabled If you are keen on using North UP orientation then you should all the way try also North Smart LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 20 Screen View PAN mode oelecting PAN from Screen Views buttons will bring you to the PAN menu During PAN mode the moving map is not automatically updating Only the aircraft is moving on it The map is placed in NORTH UP orientation You can drag with your finger on it to move the map to a particular location There are NO overlays in pan mode You exit PAN mode clicking on Pan Off button Nearest Waypoint will pop up waypoint s details of anything closer to the center cross It is ideal to select a waypoint near a location you have been dragging to Full Screen will leave you with a plain moving map with no overlay and buttons still draggable To exit full screen pan mod
115. on for the pilot is on the screen and everything is automatic except for task restarting which can be accomplished with a single key press Messages and audio tones with very high frequency are issued so the pilot at any time can understand what s going on if he is on the correct part of cylinder for a start and so on After a valid task start Time Gate overlays disappear automatically of course 14 07 26 START 14 30 138 E MR ITI dy 22 lt 34 on T 20 akm 181 9 TIRMOIREPLAY TEE SEE ig Th AI aec limb 318 4024 42 3 42 5 70s The waypoint name is changed to Start 1 2 for example indicating that you are running gate 1 of 2 available The distance is also given with more decimals when near the cylinder and it is painted RED when we are on the wrong side of the start This overlay distance is relative to the cylinder where your task will start NOT TO THE WAYPOINT START time on the right is always indicating the corresponding time gate indicated by the waypoint name In the example at 14 30 gate number 1 will open and there are 2 gates in total countdown is displayed and the countdown timer running underneath In the example 22 minutes and 34 seconds to go Under the countdown clock there is a time difference estimated against the countdown 18 37 If positive it means you will arrive AFTER the start correctly Best would be to arrive 00 01 from open start time If negative
116. on menu Virtual Keys should NOT be set ON in l STANDARD mode because they LEFT UP Virtual Key RIGHT UP require longer click to achieve an KEY UP KEY action Zoom standard mode requires a short Virtual K click while in active mode with virtual Irtual Key keys you will need to ENTER press count one release which is not a quick operation when Virtual Key you want to change several times the DOWN zoom level With no Virtual Keys and ActiveMap LEFT KEY CENTER KEY RIGHT KEY AIRCRAFT ON you cannot zoom on the map KEY LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 23 Custom Keys We have already described the Bottom Bar s keys They are the left center right and aircraft icon key A short click on them will change the navboxes change screen modes and call the menu These four keys and in the future also the LEFT UP and RIGHT UP keys can be customized to perform different action when a longer click is used on them RIGHT UP will be A longer click is described custom key in next as version Available only in Moving Map mode click count one release d So the difference is that in order to get a custom key response you simply need to click longer To trigger a custom key simply click longer on them Please notice that the future LEFT UP and RIGHT UP custom keys will only be available in the moving map page Bottom Bar custom keys will always be available when
117. onds and max deviation will be 15 degrees as an average Be precise and follow your compass until you are heading to one of the principal directions 2 CHANGE YOUR SPEED Now that you are heading constantly stabilize your speed to the TrueWind IAS that you have chosen in the configuration When your speed is correct keep it and count up to 10 seconds depending on the period of time you have configured Don t worry if your speed is not exactly the chosen one because LK8000 will be calculating your average speed during this period of time Just do your best LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 100 PRESS BUTTONS AND GET THE WIND You are done You have been heading constantly toward a principal compass direction and you have been keeping the chosen indicated air for enough seconds Allright Call Menu and press TrueWind button oelect the value you have been reading on your analog compass there are only three buttons Pm um You will be instantly given Wind speed and direction from and the Quality factor You are asked if you want to use these values Tr j peu IE 7 9 nats 5 13 39 Mn MO rice aH gt i a 4 alte d L E no BRA 21kmh from 328 etu 0 i 7 E E T Accept ang save a 9 op 13 3 6 12 n Nasco 3504 20 HGPS HBAR 1209 Press Yes and the wind will be updated and used by the software Press No and it will be ignored You can re
118. only in LK8000 and those that have changed from XCSoar 5 2 4 When you select an infobox from System Config menu 16 17 18 19 there s an Help button for each one with a complete description Code Name Description gt gt S MEINEN Aaa REG gem IAS orelAS Airspeed IAS Indicated Airspeed reported by a supported external intelligent vario If no sensor is available it is estimated using current wind and air density at current altitude In this case it is entitled elAS NENNEN ee et TAS or eTAS Airspeed TAS True Airspeed reported by a supported external intelligent vario If no sensor is available it is estimated using current wind and air density at current altitude In this case it is entitled eTAS o aAGL Altern AGL Altitude above ground level with units inverted if you are using meters than it will be in feet if you are using feet than it will be in meters o Altern QNH QNH altitude with units inverted if you are using meters than it will be in feet If you are using feet than it will be in meters HBAR Altitude BARO This is the barometric altitude obtained from a GPS equipped with pressure sensor or a supported external intelligent vario If you have selected Use Baro Altitude in system config menu 5 then this altitude is also shown as QNH altitude and used internally for all calculations NNNM HGPS Altitude GPS This is the altitude reported from the GPS Depending on your GPS device it can be qu
119. p to 3 characters LK8000 is assuming that they are the initials otherwise you would probably get too many results back T T T T T T T T T The Name button label is now VAL meaning that all names starting with VAL are listed c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 72 LEO IE dit text Text TIU If you select VALL then LK8000 will select all waypoints containing VALL in any part of their names not only at the beginning Select Waypoint Name Distance Direction Type Cavallo T 229km 78 so the button label is now VALL Cima Savallo T 55km 909 l Uppercase or lowercase do not make any Pian Cavallo T 1 difference during the search Piancavallo T Val Cavallin T Valle Lucoma T Valle Maggia T Valle SGiaco T Valle Varron T At any time you can combine Name lookup with Distance direction and type in any order LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 73 Moving Map Overlays PRET ON IENE In Config Menu 13 Map Overlays you can choose Basic Si eereicg Full overlay what to paint on the moving map ETSI AZIIT Enabled Glide terrain line Additional information can be added depending on your S a Screen size and resolution all information or only part of UESML E Disabled i may be painted in order to not clutter the screen too WFiselusicimscia Disabled much Thermal Bar ices ON You have full control on these overlays and they can be e
120. painted on the moving map It appears on the 4 1 traffic page in italic characters light red colored After 3 minutes that no information has been received concerning this traffic the ZOMBIE is removed from the list NOTE if you have selected a TARGET and it is a zombie it will NOT be removed from the list being locked See later about targets LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 63 GLOBAL TRAFFIC LIMIT Up to 50 simultaneous traffic IDs can be managed by LK8000 If new traffic appears and there are already 50 items in the traffic list e the oldest zombie is removed to make place to new traffic e f no zombies are in the list then the oldest ghost is removed e f no zombies and no ghosts are in the list then the new traffic will NOT be managed It will be discarded and its information will not appear on map or on the 4 1 page MOVING MAP TRAFFIC LIMIT Up to 10 traffic information items can be painted on the map Over the 10th traffic item no icons are displayed To get more information about rounding traffic use the 4 1 page SPECIAL TRAFFIC PAGES When traffic is available there s a new screen mode available too You can reach these pages just like switching to nearest commons etc Traffic will be the fourth mode There are 3 traffic subpages available now LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 64 TRAFFIC LIST PAGE 4 1 MIRE 1 1 Dist Var ddd8b0 0 2 114 0 7 549 dd98
121. peat the procedure if you think something went wrong LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 101 TrueWind messages and Auto Retry If you did not keep heading and or speed for enough time constantly you will be told what the problem is Don t give up Keep flying straight holding speed and direction TrueWind will automatically retry to calculate the wind in the next 20 seconds As soon as there is enough data to calculate the wind the message will automagically appear on screen Ls BELLO F KGE 5 g am pr iio a a Ha favo s INACCURATE HEADING OR TOO If you could not make it in the next 20 seconds too then no error message is given Better luck next time If there is a very strong wind that is making your ground direction very different from your compass reading you will be told as well TrueWind Quality Result A Quality of TrueWind is reported each time based on how much you could satisfy the TrueWind period For example if you set 10 seconds TrueWind Period which is the default wind will be calculated even if you could keep constant speed and track for only 7 seconds with a Quality of 7096 Quality is considering ground speed quality and heading quality at the same time for your information So if you could keep speed for 7 seconds and heading for 9 quality will be 80 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 102 Accelerations and
122. r Delta Type Para EN A DHV1 Para EN B DHV 12 Para EN C DHV2 Para EN D DHV23 or Para Competition Delta USHPA 2 3 4 V rough air 60 Kh 9 Units Aircaft Wind Speed Metric Distance Metric Lift M S Altitude Meters Task Speed Metric Lat Lon DDMMSS LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL 4 Terrain Display Terrain display Off Topology display On 6 Safety Factors Safety alt mode Landables Safety MC 0 5 ms BestAlternate Warn Off Safety Lock Off 8 Devices Brauniger Compeo Flymaster F1 Digifly are supported by LK8000 Device A Name Flymaster F1 Flytec Compeo Digifly Device A is used for the external devices if you don t have external device use Generic for the internal GPS Port COM7 Baud 57600 Device B Name Generic use device B for the internal GPS if you don t have internal GPS put the same of Device A Port COM7 Baud 57600 Geoid Altitude On Serial Mode Normal or Polling if you have problems with Normal mode 10 Interface Menu Timeout 16s Virtual Keys Off Iphone Gestures Normal Map Locking Off Active Map Off c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 121 11 Appearance Glider Position 50 Landables Icons Alternate Landables Style Boxed with units Landables value Arrival Altitude Inverse b w colors On Waypoints text style Values White Hide Units Off 14 Task Auto Advance Auto Start Type Cylinder Start Radius 400m Sector Type Cylinder Sector Radius 400
123. rom OUTSIDE Enter the cylinder to start the race e IN Exit from INSIDE Exit the cylinder to start LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 114 Example 1 your race starts at 13 00 only 1 gate no close time Tsk Time gates 1 Tsk start time 13 00 Gates interval 480m unlimited Start Out or In depending on what they tell you to do Example 2 race with 1 gate at 13 00 and a close time at 15 00 All pilots must start before 15 00 Tsk Time gates 1 Tsk start time 13 00 Gates interval 60m Example 3 race with 4 gates starting at 13 00 Second gate is at 13 20 then 13 40 14 00 Tsk Time gates 4 Tsk start time 13 00 Gates interval 20m Note that the last gate is at 14 00 and lasts 20m So the close time is at 14 20 No close time If there are time gates but no close time and a pilot decides to start later when all gates are now closed LK will complain that the gates are closed and no start can be made This is not good This particular situation applies normally when pilots want to make the race just for participating and not for winning In this case configure a higher number of time gates so that you won t run out of gates Time Gates menu shortcut It is possible to create a shortcut using Custom Keys to access this menu See Custom Keys LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 115 Time Gates map overlays When running time gates the map overlays are different All informati
124. rse track air speed and air course heading This information is used to calculate the vector differences and results in wind direction and speed Problem is LK8000 is running on PDA and PNA that in most of cases do not have Air speed information and do not have a digital compass to tell your real heading If you have an air speed sensor such as a pitot reporting IAS or TAS it will be used to make more accurate calculations TrueWind will not benefit from a digital compass at this time o0 how does it work how is it possible to calculate the wind without knowing IAS or TAS and heading With a simple trick We shall let the software know in advance what will be the air speed and assume heading by ground course That s it Paragliders and delta pilots may also need a bottle of Wild Turkey It is important that wind calculation does not require any action by the pilot before requesting for the result LK8000 is always looking at what you are doing and ready to compute the wind on demand remembering your last minute of flight second by second TrueWind has proven to be very accurate both in simulations and in real flights It is tolerant to inaccurate piloting and even in turbulence can calculate valuable information Results during a real test flight with turbulence were matching the wind calculated by a Zander with digital compass with only minor differences Wiz O077knh 237 Hil 2644n MSL At the same time since TrueWind
125. ry turnpoints are displayed up to 13km zoom and landable waypoints are displayed up to 23km zoom Over this zoom level no waypoints are painted at all Map label decluttering can be partially enabled or totally disabled depending on two configuration options inside system config menu 3 Map Display It works independently on turnpoints and landables Trail mee Long Long Orientation Auto ee OFF OEF uc cig OFF OFF O Trail width Circling zoom ON Declutter waypoints Medium Declutter landings So let s look at some examples for Decluttering waypoints We have many waypoints available since we mapped all of our mountain tops J Declutter waypoints There are four decluttering levels available we shall Disabled test some of them LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 83 Declutter waypoints Disabled With no decluttering the map is just unreadable You should never disable decluttering if you have many waypoints pp E shat a a i TREZ ALE A BAL zn il FT e ee o biis a Alt Dis Req E 229 Re Declutter waypoints Low Waypoint labels are painted only if not overwriting another label and leaving enough space to make them both readable Zooming in as in the second picture at 5Km will result in displaying more details k z a kiki a Pit T eT LaPBhcl us A o cua E jm Ras XP EF AUT AT TA ee E b 7 A i ZA DCN
126. s of course One program at startup and one at shutdown For example at startup you rotate the screen to landscape at shutdown you rotate it back to portrait mode What are the 00 30 etc numbers in the name This is important You rename your software to these names only including the numbers shown above PRELOAD 00 EXE will be executed first if existing It will not be awaited for termination Very important 00 means NO WAIT The software is run in the background and LK is going on without waiting for a single second PRELOAD 05 EXE will be executed after 00 if existing LK will wait for 5 five seconds before proceeding LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 112 This may be necessary for some screen rotation software in order to let the screen rotate before LK is detecting the screen geometry PRELOAD 30 and PRELOAD 60 EXE will wait 30 and 60 seconds before proceeding PRELOAD 99 EXE will wait UNTIL YOU EXIT THE PROGRAM YOU HAVE RUN Be careful here Some software such as BlueSoleil on the Hp314 is running in the background and cannot be awaited nor you can exit it It is ok to use a shell as CECMD EXE as PRELOAD 99 because you will be able to do whatever you like and only when you exit the commander then LK will really startup You can have PRELOAD 05 EXE for screen rotation and PRELOAD 99 EXE for CECMD LK will execute them in the order 00 05 20 60 99 ENDLOAD is just like PRELOAD but it
127. s case the incoming NMEA stream from GPS on Port 1 will be sent out as is on Port 2 If you couple Port 2 to a Bluetooth virtual COM then you will be broadcasting the NMEA stream to external devices such as a secondary PNA PDA Do not connect two devices that are providing baro altitude at the same time Bluetooth Devices some Bluetooth devices will give problems on disconnection Always close LK8000 BEFORE shutting down the external Bluetooth GPS Some Bluetooth devices will not be able to connect again after disconnection no matter if COM ports are restarted by LK8000 It is a problem of the BT stack layer in the operating system and the only solution is to exit LK8000 disable and re enable BT and then restart Always check what your Bluetooth stack is doing upon disconnection so you know what to expect during the flight We are aware that if your external BT GPS is an SPP SLAVE mode device you will have problems if BT is disconnected If your external BT GPS is an SPP MASTER then it will recover automatically LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 53 New Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 Intermediate Driver GPS Currently the Intermediate layer from Microsoft is NOT supported PNA devices with internal GPS Bluetooth If you are using a PNA device that has an internal GPS and also Bluetooth or RS232 you may choose to use the external Bluetooth GPS or vario or both such as a Flarm on PORT 1 and leave the in
128. se during restart no data is received no data is processed and no data is recorded Attention please if a valid GPS fix is found NO AUTOMATIC reset is performed If you are using external equipment that needs a port reset such as a Bluetooth device then you should perform a general Comm Port reset manually using CONFIG 3 3 button Reset Comms In this case ALL comm ports will be reset LER BLE Ww alae E Gomme D ao ial Tap p ee iy tons A port reset usually takes 2 or 3 seconds not more LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 52 Baro Altitude and Air Sensors If one external device providing baro altitude or any other special air sensor such as vario IAS TAS nettovario fails to work a message will appear on screen telling you the problem If you configured Use baro altitude and no baro is anymore available LK8000 will FALLBACK using GPS altitude As soon as real baro altitude is back it will be used automatically and a new message will be telling you GPS waitin J aos tiger 96 USING AVAILABLE BARO ALTITUDE 7 BARO ALTITUDE iUm AVAILABLE USING GPS ALTITUDE HGPS HBAR QFE gr FL HGPS HBAR QFE 229 254 254 29 ity 269 The FALLBACK mechanism grants you that if you have two GPS devices connected and at least one of them is working you will be able to proceed without any problem And baro GPS altitude is always managed at best A special usage device is NMEA OUT in thi
129. such as COM1 COM2 etc You may configure PORT 1 with COM2 and PORT2 with COM1 for example Do not confuse LK s ports with computer COMs Each port can be configured to use a dedicated device type such as an LX a Compeo a Zander a Digifly etc FLARM DSX traffic advisors are automatically detected and do not need to be configured They are considered Generic devices e PORT 1 is normally the primary GPS input If available GPS position and speed is taken from this port e PORT 2 Is normally an additional GPS input or vario air pressure instrument If you are using only one port set both ports with exactly the same parameters LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 51 Fallback mechanism Whenever for some seconds no GPS fix is available from PORT 1 the GPS fix available from PORT 2 will be used This is called FALLBACK Of course if no valid fix is available from PORT 2 either then there is no fallback When Fallback happens a message is given on screen for a couple of seconds You don t need to perform any action fallback is an automatic operation gi ciue HBAR 269 254 If after a fallback the primary NMEA source port becomes again available it will be used automatically Automatic and Manual Comm Port Restart If no GPS fix is available on either port then every 30 seconds LK will close and restart communications This has no effect on the logger and on any calculation except that of cour
130. t Unfortunately it is not available in waypoint lookup selection yet Touchscreen Gestures for Nearest Pages 1 PRESS Go to the next sub page in the current page 3 RELEASE short click CHANGE MODE ey Jj short click medium click MENU move up one line medium click to ENTER confirm selection move down one line Short elrch MENU Jamel ci 2 nux HODE short click CHANGE MODE medium click MENU LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 40 Nearest Page 2 2 Landables 2 2 LNDB 1 PASTURO 3 VALBREMBO 5 117 BRIVIO 7 8 1559 GORLE 20 889 LAPONCLA P 169 CORTENOVA 22 1 104 oris 3 979 CLUSONE 27 269 ROVETTA 16 25 TL Avg G5 Alt Dis Req E 1 9 128 2850 34 2 13 9 e Landables are showing both Airports and Outlanding points e Outlanding are written in ITALIC and painted light yellow as well e They are light red if unreachable no matter if airports or outlandings LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda Nearest Page 2 3 Turnpoints By default we list Turnpoints that are not landables That s because we already have two pages dedicated to SORNADELL 1 9 559 16 1190 landables BLELLO 3 1 46 194 tis h ib h Bie deiauit behav CASTELLOR 3 TEM itis however possible to change this aetault behaviour I CANTI 8 139 FUIPIANO 45 158 CANCERVO 29 Sree 4 97
131. tHonme 256585765 HomeWaypoint set to lt Yalbrembo gt wpnum 1 a k 4 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 11 Using the LK8000 touchscreen LK s Turbulence Proof User Interface LK is primarily using the TouchScreen for all operations Hardware keys and joggers are supported as well but the whole human interface concept is based on TouchScreen usage with no need for any external hardware buttons On most existing software the TouchScreen interface is accomplished by creating soft buttons i e painted buttons to press LK still has these soft buttons but only for exception usage As a rule there are no soft buttons to press ooft buttons in fact require a precise user action on a restricted part of the screen While this is easy to accomplish on the ground with a stylus during flight it won t be so easy nor in many cases possible at all While you are flying your body is subjected to all kinds of accelerations and your hand will not be precise in clicking On 3 and 4 inch screen devices it becomes a real problem to click on a little square area that you can hardly see under the direct sunlight while lying 50cm far away in the cockpit If you are wearing gloves your touch cannot be accurate If you are circling inside a tight thermal you cannot be accurate in touch If there is some turbulence you cannot be accurate If you cannot keep your eyes on the screen because you are busy looking outside of t
132. tart This might be a tactical choice for some pilots a SSS ce The Restart Task button is in MENU NAV 2 3 Notice that this button cannot be selected if there is no real task running of course Restarting the task will automatically advance to next time gate if available The next gate is the one still not open Read this twice Restart task a Restart task T 12 00 ntdown t U o T owe A d D y if ery o PN a v TL Avg GS Alt pS Req E Q 2 2 Qn 5 a 8 m JEN EKT ana Ys m f LIB P cing S GS Alt Dis Req E 229 5 8 After Task Restart we are waiting for Start 2 of 3 This time gate will be open at 12 00 Countdown is running 13 minutes left START 12 00 countdown 10 56 minutes are needed estimated to arrive to the start cylinder which is 3845 meters away gt Since the gate will still be closed at that time those 10 56 minutes are painted RED GS Alt pS Req E Ok 229 5 8 Zu LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 119 Shortcut for a TASK RESTART An alternate Restart Task is available in place of UTM recall long click on compass icon upper right map This means UTM is NOT available when starting The shortcut is used for Task Restart which will require in any case a confirmation just to be sure The normal UTM recall is back ONLY after passing the first waypoint AFTER the START SO suppose you have a start cylind
133. ternal GPS on Port 2 so that if for any reason the external port is failing you will be using the internal GPS automatically thanks to the FALLBACK mechanism Smart message notifications When LK8000 is switching to another port for getting a valid GPS fix you will be notified with a message If you have two GPS sources it may happen that sometimes one of them is missing the fix for some seconds and then it is recovering In this case you will notice several messages telling you what s happening This is of course normal since the Fallback engine is working fine However it may become annoying So after some messages you will be told GOING SILENT on com reporting and no more messages of this kind will be printed IN CASE you manually reset com ports from the config menu button messages will be printed again for another bunch of times and then LK will go silent as usual LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 54 External Devices Condor Simulator oet the config system menu Device A and B name to Condor This will allow LK8000 to correctly parse incoming data from Condor setting automatically wind bearing and speed barometric altitude etc By the way Barometric and GPS altitude in Condor are equal This means your virtual GPS has no errors You can in any case set Use baro altitude in system config menu 5 Very important in the device config menu set Geoid Altitude OFF to get correct readings of GPS
134. thermal average ManMC or AutMC is your current McCready value and its setting manual or automatic LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 33 Touchscreen Gestures for InfoPages As we said there are five InfoPages To change info page we use gestures Just like an IPHONE you change to next or previous by switching pages as in a book It is easier to try it than to explain 1 PRESS 3 RELEASE Go fo fhe next page in the current screen mode short click CHANGE MODE E I short click medium click MENU 3 RELEASE i PRESS Go to the previous page in the current screen mode short click CHANGE MODE short click medium click MENU You may have noticed that actually it works reversed compared to an IPHONE This is the default If you want to invert next and previous go inside config system menu 10 Interface and change IPHONE gestures Now that you know how to do it you can change to the next Info Page LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 34 Info Page 1 2 Thermal 1 2 Thermal Alzate 10 22 10 T Brg NxbArT 257 800 GS Vario 110 0 5 TC Gain TC 30 TC Avg 474 40 1 1 2 41 3 Wind 19 8 TC Gain TC 30 TC Avg Th All Climb_ 474 0 1 41 2 1 3 86 New values we haven t seen yet are Vario the variometer lift value from an external variometer or calculated by the GPS or barometric altitude difference from the last fix TC Ga
135. thing over 15 will be considered an error and NOT used e Comments are truncated at 150 characters e Waypoint names are truncated to 30 characters although they are printed differently depending on device screen resolution normally around 10 chars LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 69 COMPEGPS Waypoint files e LK8000 1 22 can load only WGS84 LAT LON WAYPOINTS FROM COMPEGPS You cannot use WPT file with UTM coordinates in current version e All COMPEGPS waypoints are loaded and saved as simple TURNPOINTS not AIRPORTS or LANDING points This should be no problem for paragliders since they are not using the BestAlternate functions e Normally you should load COMPEGPS as file 2 e Saving waypoints will force LK to remove all w lines in the original file Keep a copy of original e Altitude in COMPE has a strange like the format itself format with a precision of 1 1000000 of meter that s right 1 million of meter During load and save operation it will be normal to have rounding errors in this range Changing Waypoint files and Home Waypoint Home waypoint is remembered as a waypoint in a fixed numbered position If you change waypoint FILES then Home may be lost unless e You are loading a Winpilot file with H field set in flags Example 2521 50 04 17N 018 37 42E 285M ATH Rybnik This is my airport with H for home set e You are loading a SeeYou file with LKHOME codename field set Example
136. ude in use either GPS or Baro if available Distance to destination Required efficiency to destination M I b J ALT2 Altitudes HGPS HBAR QFE AItAGL FL 229 82 7 e Height GPS e Height Baro e QFE e Altitude Above Ground Level if terrain map is configured e Flight Level Sal E a or B Ers SITAS statistics Th All Odomet FlyTm All thermals average or daily thermal average Odometer counting distance like in a car Fly Time how much time you have been airborne Distance Home Radial Home LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 18 TSK4 task information TskDis TskArr Task Distance left Task Arrival Altitude Task Estimated Time Enroute the time left to complete the task Task distance covered Start Altitude of your task start good to remind you of the 1000m FAI rule b A ams ATN5 Alternates Valbrem cce Atn1 E cx E Requested efficiency and Arrival Altitude for e BestAlternate e Alternate e Alternate2 BestAlternate has an explanation in a separate chapter in this manual Alternates can be chosen by selecting a waypoint and using the Set as Alternate1 or Set as Alternate2 buttons You can thus keep under your eyes two manually selected alternate destinations and one automatically selected best alternate destination On some screen devices there is no space to display Arrival altitude of Alternate 2 as in the picture above
137. ulate the required LD wind was taken into account at point 2 remember We filter out all reachable points that require an L D higher than 70 of the LD of the glider glider L D 30 Example for a glider that has best LD 40 this safety margin is 28 We call this margin SafeLD We now choose the BestAlternate from this list 0oo0on If Home Waypoint is in this list with a Safe LD we choose HOME If no home we look for a Safe LD Preferred see later for Preferred If no home and no preferred we choose the best SafeLD Airport available If no airport either with a safeLD then we look for a good outlanding with SafeLD of course If nothing with a SafeLD was found then we get the best Reachable suggested at point 4 If still no luck we shall use a Reachable without the OverSafety those 100m extra arrival margin And finally if everything so far has failed and we don t even have anything close to be selected even if unreachable then we keep the old BestAlternate But it will show since not reachable at all That s all for the selection criteria Now how do you set a preferred Go inside the Waypoints subfolder in the LK8000 directory and edit the WAYNOTES TXT file LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 92 Think in advance You have been sinking for the last minutes and probably lost too much altitude There was a gateway to the bestalternate until 2 minutes ago but now it se
138. usdttOlloss e asesddis cre ado mahal a td a abdo 90 Troe W mO TA a Pee IC cU 90 LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 128 MWe Vy WAG HS RTT TR 99 Using TrueWind during TVG sata cancteneibedesaaicen tavsedadabaaeanctecesielaisaicss Maveiadalagess seewsieluiacess Muveeiedaisders tees 100 CHANGE YOUR HEADING crierai ssoaqsauns evotesuw acs aa NE S EEEE Rani 100 CHANGE YOUR SPL D eee N 100 PRESS BUTTONS AND GET THE WIND l tie cenesccesoestmasatu ceno enian rnin aan 101 TrueWind messages and Auto Ci sce cet ett eattes ce saselwrictianscenasebedannnenesesaseacteadnene T E Ee a E naeia 102 Tae Vy n CAHIR E a E N A E TE E E 102 Accelerations and compass errors very important ssseeeeeessssssseeeersssssssscererssssssscereesssssssseeeressss 103 hy isis SOIC RR RT ETE 103 How to get along with acceleration errors on compass readouts eseeeeeesssseseeeeeenn 104 Nor aI Soudi vs East and WV eS ae core occ snecmeice nese sennsnecem ete viUa vv as acera xu Durdomsn d EO EE Eus Ded Um 104 FLOW COG S10 WOIE e E edat E aod sedie is edam Ra c DE dM iu edic M M CE UD 104 TrueWind with an Air Speed Indicator connected eeeeessssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee nnne 104 Auc Wan and Condor NO AOR 2r ogee dass chess EAEE EEE A 105 Tree W ind with a Delta or a Paras detiene ch tereke t bote stu rSa rra teanen re En RE E SOC R ENEAN 105 Basic Settings Barometric altitu
139. use safety altitude e Tsk values and Turnpoints are all calculated with current MC and optionally safety altitude e Wind is used for all calculations e NO total energy aka speed compensation is used So you normally have some more margins if you are flying at a high speed However LK8000 considers total energy an extra safety margin deliberately No optimistic estimations calculations will use safety altitude and values will be confused Create a dedicated turnpoint for If you are running a task it is better not to use an existing Landing point as a turnpoint because it LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 88 Obstacles and Red Crosses on the moving map If you have configured Glide Terrain as either Line or Shade inside Config Menu 13 Map Overlays then obstacles are painted on the moving map Obstacle calculation works only during flight and not on ground In SIM mode it is working also on ground If a destination cannot be reached being out of current glide range there is no need to paint obstacles because you simply cannot glide that far Arrival altitude is negative and you know that you need to climb In this screenshot we are 50km away from an airport TORR n eS nts yo i niai 1829 QNH 40 LD request to get there r L y Ba Tr NE LDA j IP E d r With a DG300 77m are missing for a kd Kcu p x i ee EN Way c glide with no obstacles The Alps are mum i A wx Pastub s Aera A OCs b
140. ut we use a low zoom detail level because we shall be looking at the topology from thousands of feet meters above Choose EUR for Europe NAM for North America etc See the preview pictures read the file descriptions with T XT and download what you like from the DIR folders Place your DEM and LKM files inside the Maps subfolder of LK8000 ATTENTION some Windows Vista computers will create problems downloading LKM maps because they are really zip files You should save these files as LKM not as Zip folders Try using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer Check your OS installation to solve the ZIP download problem or consult the Postfrontal com forum for a solution AUTOMATIC DECLUTTERING OF LABELS LK8000 has a new decluttering engine starting from version 1 22 Decluttering is necessary to reduce the number of labels printed on the screen There must be some space around each label in order to let another label be printed No label can be written on top or on part of another label The screen must always be as clean as possible on LK8000 A lot of efforts have been spent on this issue to improve overall results printing topology Labels are printed on the screen with this order 1 Landables Always appearing Controlled by Config menu 3 Declutter landings 2 Waypoints Controlled by Config menu 3 Declutter waypoints You can reduce them to let more space for the next step topology labels 3 Topology Next chapter
141. value for a TrueWind period some seconds really during flight before asking for the TrueWind calculated When you press the TrueWind button you will be able to see which airspeed has been selected and it will also be possible to change it on the fly TrueWind Period The Period box lets you choose the amount of time in seconds you will be holding speed and heading during straight flight before asking for the wind to be calculated A value between 8 and 15 is normally OK Suggested value is 10 There is a tolerance to this time period assuming that you couldn t keep track and speed constant enough At least 70 of that TrueWind period must be satisfied nevertheless LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 99 Using TrueWind during flight Now while you are flying straight in order to get TrueWind you need to follow 3 simple steps i CHANGE YOUR HEADING Change direction and looking at your analog compass keep heading to either 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 270 300 330 degrees Ine PR DIE These values are indicated on your aeronautical compass as N 3 6 E 12 15 S 21 24 W 30 33 In practice you have to keep a constant heading and you should choose the best value you can keep under control on your aeronautical analog magnetic compass Choose the direction which better suits your current route You will have to deviate direction of course but that s necessary only for a few sec
142. was calculated after having just HBEnc 0 6n v2 left a thermal the circling calculated wind was practically identical to 244 40192m 42 Ty owing ALEST 048 9 2637 l 1701 18 0 2217 Later analysis on Naviter s SeeYou PC has shown matching results ZANDER SR G 0 O It does work However you should carefully read the following pages in order to understand how to configure and use TrueWind for best possible results LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 98 TrueWind Configuration Configuration is done inside Config System menu 5 Glide computer gt Glide Computer Basic Auto wind ACA 100kh TrueWind period 10s Auto Mc mode L D Average period ides Circle at cente Auto Force Final Glide Use baro altitude ON o TrueWind IAS The IAS box should be set to a reasonable glide speed you can keep with no problems going straight By default this speed is 120kmh or 64knots You can change this value but our advice is that you don t choose a slow speed because of difficulty to maintain it constant during turbulence It is normally easier to keep a constant speed if your aircraft is flying fast You are choosing the indicated air speed you shall read on your glider s speed indicator anemometer at any altitude PARAGLIDERS should choose the Basic Speed Hands Up speed of their wing Check the basic speed for your wing at www para2000 org You must stabilize your air speed to this
143. ways remembered the next time you restart the software Waypoints Waypoints is the place where you can put your See You CUP files or WinPilot DAT or CompeGPS or all of them There is also an editable file called WAYNOTES TXT that has an example inside Old XCSoar Airfields txt file is now called WAYNOTES TXT and it is used by the LK S BestAlternate function as explained later in the manual LK will take your SeeYou Mobile CUP files with absolutely no problems Using CUP files instead of old DAT format is suggested but not necessary CUP format has more information available that s all Since LK can manage two waypoint files at the same time you can have different formats for different usages No limitations System This directory is very important and you should never modify any file inside it There is a subdirectory called _CEUtilities where some tools are available for emergencies You can try those tools which are by third parties On PNA devices you will need to copy those tools where the DLL files are located otherwise they won t work properly or at all And there s a Sounds directory where you can customize some sounds if needed Generally the System directory is also used for installing automatically missing libraries missing fonts and the necessary stuff inside the device s memory when needed EXECUTABLE FILES In the main LK8000 folder you will find the executables for different platforms Of course
144. which is also inside the Polar subdirectory LK8000 Polar file explanation You can create your own polar file which is based on WinPilot format LK has an optional additional field appended for Wing Area Without wing area you can t change wing loading in Basic Settings Since the wing area of your glider is an easy to find and a fixed parameter we strongly suggest that you add this additional parameter to the default WinPilot polar file Wing area is in square meters Before explaining the format of a polar line be sure to understand the following a polar defines the sink rate of a glider at 3 different speeds in order to provide later an interpolation for your current speed and determine the estimated sink rate Whoever made the polar has determined these values using a glider with a certain weight this weight was normally without ballast and includes also the pilot s weight It is easy to understand you jump on your glider and you fly away measuring sink rates The weight matters a lot It is also called Dry All Up Weight Dry AUW so you should not change the weight field unless you are actually creating from scratch your polar measuring also sink rates You can change the real gross weight of your glider you glider parachute whatever ballast apart simply changing in Basic Settings the wing loading In that case the polar is shifted correctly and these sink rates are still valuable If you don t understand what we ar
145. you should use either PPC2003 PPC2003 PNA or PC versions Pay attention to the fact that there are some libraries dll that are needed by some OS versions Do not rename or remove these libraries aygshell dll and note prj dll unless stated otherwise on the support forum opecifically if you are running Windows CE 6 x and maps are not drawn they are not visible like they are not painted at all then you should rename imgdecmp dll CE6 to imgdecmp dll that is take the CE6 suffix off so that the library is usable by the software Do NOT rename executables You can copy them but always leave the original name also FLY or SIM version The SIMulator version is like the FLY version but with no communication active with external GPS It is perfect for testing the software indoors You can make the aircraft fly on the map by clicking and moving it in the desired direction and then releasing it To change altitude you need to enter IBOX mode click on the altitude Infobox and use the UP DOWN keys to increase or decrease the altitude LK8000 v1 22 USER MANUAL c 2010 by Paolo Ventafridda 10 RUNTIME LOG After executing LK8000 a file called RUNTIME LOG will appear inside the LK8000 main directory This file is a log of LK activity and should be used for debugging purposes Since this file is never deleted by LK8000 it will grow up in size time to time you should rename it to something like RUNTIME LOG 1 and then RUNTIME LOG 2

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