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Old August 30th 12, 02:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default PowerFLarm expected range

I scanned the manuals but didn't really see what I was looking for (no real shocker there). Perhaps someone else has better answers to a couple of questions.

1. If you have selected the 1 mile range screen is the 1 mile range from the center of the circle to the outer circle or is it 1 mile from the center to the inner circle?

2. If I was on the 1 mile range screen (can't remember now what screen I was on last weekend) and the range to the target I'm looking at is somewhere over 2 miles does the screen revert back to the Butterly page? Perhaps this was the issue... I just needed to go to the 6 mile range screen and perhaps I would have been able to see the other Flarm at a farther distance?

3. Any idea how often the FlarmNet file is updated? I loaded my info about this time last week and when I look at the FlarmNet file the last line in the file begins with 10DEF. It's been this way since I started looking to see if my update might be included. Looking at the file each line should start with an incrementally larger hex value. If this is correct then I wonder when it might get updated.

Thanks...