Operation Manual

Speed to fly bar symbol is indicating which speed you have to fly according to current
MacCready setting, sink rate and speed. One arrow means 10units of speed faster or slower.
Up red arrows mean fly slower and down blue arrows mean fly faster.
Red diamond symbol shows average vertical speed.
Blue arrow symbol shows current MacCready value.
Green T symbol represents last thermal average value.
White bar, which is not shown on picture above, displays arc between minimum and
maximum vertical speed value in last 20 seconds.
New feature of V5 is also flarm warning. V5 is able to display flarm clock, which indicates
direction and distance of threat. It can trace multiple threats.
Most inovative feature of V5 vario system is an upgrade. Firmware for sensorbox
and vario indicator can be easily upgraded by customer with SD card. See
Chapter 9 for more details.
5.1.12.2.2 USB-D Vario indicator
A vario indicator consists of:
• Mechanical needle, which can indicate vertical speed, speed to fly value, netto vertical
speed, or Relative vertical speed.
• Speed to fly ball will tell us if we have to fly faster or slower. If the ball moves up you
have to slow down and if ball moves down you have to speed up.
Gps status
Vario range
Upper numeric
display
Lower numeric
display
Battery
indicator
Mechanical
needle
Speed to fly
indicator