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Old April 25th 13, 07:52 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Evan Ludeman[_4_]
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Default (USA) FlarmNet usage

On Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:29:11 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:49:25 AM UTC-4, Evan Ludeman wrote:

On Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:05:37 AM UTC-4, Paul Remde wrote:








The great news is the the next version of PowerFLARM firmware should support








the ability to upgrade the Butterfly displays by plugging a USB Flash Drive








or microSD memory card with the firmware upgrade file on it into the








PowerFLARM Brick or Portable.








It works and it's here (in beta) now.








http://www.powerflarm.aero/index.php...ge-and-support








I don't use or care much about flarmnet, but I do recommend the 2.79 beta because it appears to have better pcas sensitivity and reliability and it allows one to easily update the display to 3.1, which improves readability significantly.








Sure wish they'd chuck those silly, useless pcas circles on the butterfly displays in favor of digital range information (like Zaon). I've suggested this, without reply. If you agree, or have a better idea, I'd encourage you to make your opinion known.








Evan Ludeman / T8




Where are the display firmware updates? I found the FlarmNet file for the

Americas (I registered a while back) but I don't see any updates for the

display. Will the default level of firmware cope with FlarmNet?



Matt


See "Displays" at bottom of page I linked to above for the 2.79 beta.

-T8