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Old July 24th 12, 03:58 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Eric Greenwell[_4_]
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Default PowerFlarm display

On 7/23/2012 5:26 PM, Brad wrote:
I have the stand-alone unit and have been flying with it for a few
months now. I am curious about the display.

Is it supposed to show the flarm targets in color, or in black? The
manual shows lot's of colorful icons floating across the screen, all I
see are black triangles with numbers and arrows.

I'm sure the flarm information I am getting is correct, but spending a
few paychecks on this little unit and having a bad display is a little
annoying, if in fact it should be in color.


They are supposed to be green, but the current color selection is so
dark it looks black. I'm told that will be adjusted in the next update.

I've seen PCAS warnings in red, but haven't gotten Flarm warnings, so I
can't say what I'd see, but they are supposed to be red, also. I'm not
sure I've seen any orange "alerts", but I think that is the other color
used.

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