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On my last flight my Cambridge 302 made several different types of
sounds and I began to wonder what they all mean and what they were trying to tell me. Sink - This is pretty straight forward as a continuous tone which gets lower pitched as the sink gets greater. Howerver every once in a while it simply goes quiet. That is understandable as we spend a lot of time in sink and want some silence every once in a while. The question is, when/why does it grow quiet? Looking through the manual I found the following, "Speed-to-fly dead band width - If you are flying in cruise mode within the Speed-to-Fly dead-band width, the audio will be silent (except if you are climbing!). If you set dead band width to 20 knots, you will not hear cruise tones if you are flying within plus or minus ten knots of the correct speed-to-fly for the current lift or sink rate." Lift - This is a "beeping" tone which gets higher pitched as the lift gets greater. However there are two rates of beeping, I'll call them normal and agressive. The agressive tone is less often heard except on my last flight when the lift was particularly good. Are the two tones relative to the rate of change of the lift (integral) and not the amount of lift? If so, can the trigger point between the two tone types be changed? I don't see any details in the manual. Thanks for any ideas. - John |
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