Basics

The avionics submenu of MipFly One allows for the fine-tuning of different algorithms running in the background either on the OS part of the system or on the real-time hardware. In the following paragraph, the functioning of these algorithms and the influence of each configurable parameters will be explained.

Fig. 1 Avionics menu

Glide

The glide value is the theoretical glide used for task data approximation. Generally, it should be lower than the theoretical maximum glide of your wing. Best way to determine it is to observe the instant glide you get while flying. Wind is taken into consideration for the determination of the arrival height at a certain point. If you are constantly arriving at WP with a hier altitude you should consider increasing this value. If you are arriving with a lower altitude you should consider decreasing it.

Trim Speed

The trim speed is the average speed used during a task or during a casual flight (if only waypoint navigation is employed). Wind speed and trim speed is taken into account when different task parameters are computed.

Set num. samples

The set num. samples menu lets you input the number of pressure samples that the standard firmware uses to compute vertical speed and altitude. 201 samples are fetched every second, so a setting of 201 will represent an average of 1 second, 401 an average of 2 seconds etc. Please note that this value has no influence on the real-time (instant) variometer based on acceleration. Although this feature takes advantage of the dual pressure sensors employed by MipFly One, this algorithm is certainly slower than the instant vario and is only used in conjunction with other sensors.

Please note that OK has to be pressed in order for the data to be saved and sent to the real-time hardware.

Set vario average

This is the value, in seconds, used for the average climb/sink. It can be used to determine the actual climb in a thermal or sink in a translation and compare it with the rest of the day. The recommended value is about the time needed to make 2 thermal turns.

Wind

The wind algorithm is based on a circular regression (circle fit to a set of data points) algorithm applied to the XY speeds determined from the course and ground speed. To drop out data that can result is an erroneous determination two conditions have to be met:

• a certain course change was performed in the measurement window (also called data spread)
• The RMS error of the circle fit is less than a predetermined value

Wind num. readings

Wind num average

Wind data spread

Wind RMS error

Glide num. average

This menu is used to set the number of values used to compute the average glide. Please note that one sample is taken every 200 ms, so that there are a total of 5 samples in one second.

Thermaling detect

This menu is used to set and enable automatic switch to Thermal assistant from other pages. If enable, when climb and turn are detected it switch. Instead when glider doens't turn and climb it swtich to previous page

Detect ON - Detect OFF

Saturation

Decay

Activate Threshold

Deactivate Threshold