Brauniger Competino, Manual

Page 1: ...COMPETINO Manual Vers 1 16 Grey marked texts show the differences of this version compared to the last one Br uniger GmbH Dr Karl Slevogt Str 5 D 82362 Weilheim 49 881 64750 info brauniger com www bra...

Page 2: ...6 8 Waypoints and Co ordinates 17 6 8 1 Waypoints Alter Delete or Add 18 6 8 2 Deletion of Waypoints 19 6 8 3 Insertion of Waypoints 19 6 8 4 Current Coordinate Indicator 19 6 8 5 Distance to Waypoin...

Page 3: ...lation of the digital signature can take up to one or two minutes Please wait until this process is finished Press the ESC o key again to turn off the unit 2 2 Keypad Keyboard Funct below Funct ab lin...

Page 4: ...aypoints are plotted with a cross and name The map scale is displayed as well Information lines Function of F1 Function of F2 Digital Variometer Altitude Scale Track of the actual flight Restricted ar...

Page 5: ...values You can thus obtain the desired graph quickly Even past flights can be graphed as long as they are still in the memory During flight touching the ESC key briefly will toggle between the differ...

Page 6: ...rdinates Routes List of the routes with the possibility to edit see Chapter 6 11 Create change delete routes Restricted Areas List of the restricted areas with the possibility to edit see Chapter 6 17...

Page 7: ...odulation Pitch Acoustic Averager 4 2 1200 Hz 700 Hz Mod 5 Pi 3 8 Battery type Alkaline cells or NiMH Accumulator 2 8 0 Alkaline cells Audio threshold Fine tuning of climbing tone max 20 cm sec 4 2 2...

Page 8: ...ring Direction to chosen destination Track Flight direction course Temp Internal temperature Alt 2 Reference height if desired can be set at 0 Alt 3 Cumulated gained height QNH hPa Air pressure in hec...

Page 9: ...r can occur in both directions The connection occurs with 57 600 baud 1 startbit 8 databit 1 stopbit no parity Xon Xoff The following can be read via this RS232 interface Serial number and pilot name...

Page 10: ...you store all the related files in one separate subdirectory After the installation a number of files are created Double click on the file flasher exe to start the program In Setup the serial port COM...

Page 11: ...omepage www brauniger com 4 Air pressure functions 4 1 Altimeter and Air pressure The COMPETINO has 3 altitude displays Alt1 should be always the altitude above sea level QNH Alt2 in the User Selectab...

Page 12: ...lter can be adjusted here as well Filter1 It may be used as a turbulence filter and can be adjusted from 0 1 sec to 1 sec Settings 1 to 10 default is 1 4 3 Digital Vario The digital vario has a scale...

Page 13: ...ing The vario value is re calculated every 0 2 seconds Rapid vario changes may result in wide variations in tone frequency The ear registers it as a fast piano effect In order to change this a dampeni...

Page 14: ...surements above 1km h it is also well suited in determining the wind strength at take off In the Basic Settings Speed Correction vane it is possible to calibrate the displayed speed from 70 to 150 def...

Page 15: ...re you should always look for the best possible visibility around you with the antenna under the COMPETINO label pointing upwards When the unit is securely mounted to a flight deck etc it should not h...

Page 16: ...once every second Speed over ground is derived from the distance between these positions Only from the difference between airspeed and groundspeed can one make conclusions about the wind s influence...

Page 17: ...y important to know wind direction and strength before an out landing The Wind Strength can be selected within the User Defined Fields It is necessary to fly one or two complete circles as steadily as...

Page 18: ...ints After briefly pressing the Enter key the display shows the list of logged waypoints WPs All WPs are arranged in alphabetical order If this list contains more than 6 visible WPs a down arrow at th...

Page 19: ...Provided the COMPETINO is receiving GPS signals the actual position is displayed by pressing the Enter key in the unit s information field After 20 seconds the previous display will automatically rea...

Page 20: ...ll have available to use if necessary in order to compensate for unexpected sink Under no circumstances should the pilot go ahead and fly towards goal if the Alt a BG Height shows zero or negative num...

Page 21: ...d with the program Flychart 4 50 or others from your PC to the Competino A route is a string of waypoints of course the WPs have to already be in the COMPETINO s memory Again if a WP is used in a rout...

Page 22: ...ess The display asks copy to Competition route confirm with Yes Please note start cylinder cylinder radii and start time have to be set separately Within this procedure all radii are reset to the defa...

Page 23: ...0 If only one fix start time is given the number of gates has to be set to 1 the interval then does not care There is also a count down timer linked with the Start Cylinder This lets the pilot know ex...

Page 24: ...means that their cylinders must be entered The alarm remains active when entering a called up waypoint cylinder along the route even if a waypoint not belonging to the route has been selected With th...

Page 25: ...ulation graphically A Crosshair now is showing the path into the goal The pilots position is marked by a glider symbol The horizontal scale of the crosshair indicates the deviation from the course int...

Page 26: ...rst 20 CTRs are free of charge for more please contact Brauniger to get a license number which has to be entered in Main Setup Menu Optional SW Packages These airspace s appear in the Map mode as poly...

Page 27: ...he Esc key briefly If manual recording is chosen recording begins 1 minute after the instrument is switched on and continues until the Esc key is pressed for 3 seconds The unit prompts Do really switc...

Page 28: ...ing can be slightly higher than the ambient air temperature especially when in direct sunlight 8 2 Time and Date Time date and year does not need to be adjusted as it is automatically set by the GPS r...

Page 29: ...the Goto function can be called up to select a waypoint If the direction arrow in the middle of the compass points upwards the pilot is moving towards his goal and the distance to the WP becomes smal...

Page 30: ...e it is definitely destroyed The proper procedure is as follows Take out all batteries Open the instrument case at once If the landing is in salt water rinse the circuit board and all areas affected w...