At 20:55 12 August 2008, Douglas Logan wrote:
I have inherited an EW Avionics D type recorder with the glider I am now
flying. But over the last few months even though I have taken it flying
with me quite a few times and it seems to work OK. I have used the EW
uploader to save the traces so I know the cable connection works, but I
have never actually been able to read the resulting data from a computer

I understand (and I find this rather disappointing) you have to buy
additional software over and above what you first paid to make full use
of
the recorder itself.

There is however a simple MS-DOS programme that you can use instead. But
every time I try to connect up I get the message ‘put it in PRT mode by
pressing the PRT key’.

Does anyone have any idea what is going wrong or have I missed something
here


It's been a while since I had a 'D' but I don't think the DOS program
works on anything later than Windows '98.

This may or may not work:
Right click on your .ewt flight file, open with Notepad. Then File
Save as xxx.igc It's the .igc that's important. Use this site:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/
to convert the FAI/IGC track file to a Google Earth KML and view the
result in Google Earth.

good luck,

Edward