Colibri data recorder date error

I tried to post a recent flight to the OLC only to have it rejected due an improper date being associated with the flight. It showed as 1999 as the year and from what I have read and been told this has something to do with the Colibri GPS engine not being able to register the date from the GPS satellites.

Has anyone had a similar occurrence and if so what was the fix? Has anyone shipped the Colibri to LX for repair and at what cost?

Cheers,
Mike

On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 04:00:51 -0700, mmaskell412 wrote:

I tried to post a recent flight to the OLC only to have it rejected due
an improper date being associated with the flight. It showed as 1999 as
the year and from what I have read and been told this has something to
do with the Colibri GPS engine not being able to register the date from
the GPS satellites.

Has anyone had a similar occurrence and if so what was the fix? Has
anyone shipped the Colibri to LX for repair and at what cost?

Some older loggers, PNAs etc got thrown by the GPS epoch rollover earlier
this year - its only the second time the date has rolled over since the
GPS service started. You need to talk to LX about a fix.


--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

At 12:46 06 August 2019, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 04:00:51 -0700, mmaskell412 wrote:

I tried to post a recent flight to the OLC only to have it rejected due
an improper date being associated with the flight. It showed as 1999
as
the year and from what I have read and been told this has something to
do with the Colibri GPS engine not being able to register the date from
the GPS satellites.

Has anyone had a similar occurrence and if so what was the fix? Has
anyone shipped the Colibri to LX for repair and at what cost?

Some older loggers, PNAs etc got thrown by the GPS epoch rollover earlier

this year - its only the second time the date has rolled over since the
GPS service started. You need to talk to LX about a fix.

Quite right!

But it is LX Navigation (www.lxnavigation.com) you need,
not LXV (http://www.lxnav.com/), different companies.

The problem is (usually) that the sustainer battery on the GPS Engine has
expired, and forgetten what the current GPS Epoch is, so it goes bach to
Epoch 0, 6th Jan 1999.

On Tue, 06 Aug 2019 15:10:45 +0000, Tim Newport-Peace wrote:

The problem is (usually) that the sustainer battery on the GPS Engine
has expired, and forgetten what the current GPS Epoch is, so it goes
bach to Epoch 0, 6th Jan 1999.

Has anybody written a utility program that can reset the epoch counter?

I'm thinking about WinCE-based PNAs here, specifically the Medion S.3747
which I'm running LK8000 on: it doesn't seem totally unreasonable that
such a program might exist for hand-held systems running the formerly
ubiquitous WinCE.


--
Martin | martin at
Gregorie | gregorie dot org

If you're just using it for OLC, there are free apps that run on tablets
or smart phones that are good enough.

If you need a certified logger, the cost of repair may well make a new
logger look attractive, having much more memory and being easier to use.

-Dave


On 8/6/19 5:00 AM, wrote:
I tried to post a recent flight to the OLC only to have it rejected due an improper date being associated with the flight. It showed as 1999 as the year and from what I have read and been told this has something to do with the Colibri GPS engine not being able to register the date from the GPS satellites.

Has anyone had a similar occurrence and if so what was the fix? Has anyone shipped the Colibri to LX for repair and at what cost?

Cheers,
Mike

On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 12:43:51 PM UTC-4, kinsell wrote:
If you're just using it for OLC, there are free apps that run on tablets
or smart phones that are good enough.

If you need a certified logger, the cost of repair may well make a new
logger look attractive, having much more memory and being easier to use.

-Dave


On 8/6/19 5:00 AM, wrote:
I tried to post a recent flight to the OLC only to have it rejected due an improper date being associated with the flight. It showed as 1999 as the year and from what I have read and been told this has something to do with the Colibri GPS engine not being able to register the date from the GPS satellites.

Has anyone had a similar occurrence and if so what was the fix? Has anyone shipped the Colibri to LX for repair and at what cost?

Cheers,
Mike


Since a good number of SN10b loggers are still being fed GPS data via ancient Volksloggers (they found a fossilized Pterodactyl with a Volkslogger velcro'ed to his ankle!), Dave Nadler implemented a correction program in one of his last updates, so a software solution is possible. Works great and is OLC compliant.
Thanks for your ongoing support, YO!

Uli
'AS'

If you are reaching out for repair the Colibri is sold by LXNavigation and not by LXNav who sell the functionally similar Nano line of flight recorders.

I would contact one of the sellers of LXNavigation equipment to see what that might know.

- John OHM