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Old April 25th 06, 10:30 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Cambridge 302 Sounds and Meanings?

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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