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Topic: audio alerts?

Posted By: oskrypuch
Subject: audio alerts?
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2012 at 2:01pm

Are there any audio out alerts planned in the new IFD540?

* Orest

Replies:

Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2012 at 5:51pm

Yes, we have several. For example, the terrain and obstacle alerts associated with our Terrain Awareness system have aural alerts with them.

Did you have a specific alert(s) in mind?

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com

Posted By: brou0040
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2012 at 8:32pm

Is there a convenient way to bypass terrain alerts for a certain amount of time maybe 20 minutes? I'm thinking about flying through mountain passes when normal terrain warnings go crazy and I don't want to permanently disable the feature.

Posted By: oskrypuch
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2012 at 10:43pm

TIS-A traffic alerts, delivered from a Mode S transponder.

* Orest

Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2012 at 3:44pm

For the terrain alert bypass request - yes, that's very easy to do anytime in flight. In-fact, just this past week, I spent about 3.5 hours low leveling through the mountains of NY and VT and turned off the terrain alerts for that very reason. The pilot can turn them on or off as they see fit at any time. They do default to the ON position at each power up.

For the traffic alerts, I'll have to look at the system wiring but in general, we don't create new aurals on behalf of 3rd party gear. The reason for looking at the wiring is to see if the TIS-A traffic alerts (I presume that is from a Garmin 327 or 330 or something like that) has its own intrinsic audio out capability that is wired directly to your intercom/audio panel system. For the Avidyne traffic systems, the traffic sensor itself issues the aural alerts to the audio panel directly and it simultaneously issues the visual alerts to the IFD display.

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com

Posted By: oskrypuch
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2012 at 4:34pm

Yes, I expect you're on the mark there. My 330 is probably directly wiring to the audio.

Will find all this out soon, as my plane is getting a major avionics overhaul.

* Orest

Posted By: tony
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2013 at 1:31pm

Along with the terrain aural alerts will there be a minimums aural alert?

Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2013 at 2:31pm

Not quite. We do have the Minimums aural alert recorded and stored in the IFD540 unit but we are not going to call it for the initial release. The definition of minimums varies across aircraft type as you know and we deferred coming up with a mechanism to call the right one for the initial product release.

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com

Posted By: oskrypuch
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2013 at 3:53pm

Interesting. Will pre-wire to allow for it.

* Orest

Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2013 at 7:49pm

Hi Orest,

Is it fair to say that by "will pre-wire" you mean ensuring the IFD540 is wired to your audio panel? If so, that makes sense to me. If not, can you clarify?

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com

Posted By: oskrypuch
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2013 at 9:58am

Yes, precisely. Currently have a 430W in that functional position. With the big panel redo, the 430 will remain, but with a spacer below, to make the opening "530W-sized". Then when, you ship my IFD540 (I checked under the tree, still not there ;-) ), it will slip right in with a minimum of fuss.

There is an audio out for the 430, but I've learned that this is only active with the full TAWS package which I don't have, so it was never connected to the audio panel.

* Orest