Traffic Sensor Error
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Topic: Traffic Sensor Error
Posted By: Psellati
Subject: Traffic Sensor Error
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 1:23pm
| I just had Sarsota Avionics installed a 540 and I've been getting a traffic sensor error frequently and I've mentioned this to my avionics shop and they tell me it is a software problem. I asked them to verify this with Avidyne but it falls on deaf ears. Have you seen this and if so what is the cause? |
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Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 1:49pm
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What type of traffic sensor do you have? ------------- Steve Jacobson sjacobson@avidyne.com |
Posted By: Psellati
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 1:55pm
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MLB100 attached to a AXP 340. The MLB100 has the latest version of firmware and the 540 is running 10.1.1.0 |
Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 2:01pm
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Yes, that is real and we're still chasing it down. We see it every 124 seconds in our test airplane. Not many people are seeing it but a few are. The problem appears to be with the MLB100 at this point in the investigation. I stress that it's still early in the investigation and very active and definitely not falling on deaf ears within engineering. ------------- Steve Jacobson sjacobson@avidyne.com |
Posted By: Psellati
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 2:10pm
| Understood, thx for the information! |
Posted By: Bad1996
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 1:18am
| Two of us in north Georgia with 540's and NGT9000's get the error message too. All products installed by an Avidyne and L3 dealer. |
Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 8:40am
I don't think that is the same thing. We have no experience (or claims on) the interface with the NGT9000. The MLB100 intermittent traffic sensor fault message is real. It lasts 1-5 seconds, automatically clears and can happen a handful of times across a few hours of use. We're working on trapping the cause of that issue and will squash it. ------------- Steve Jacobson sjacobson@avidyne.com |
Bad1996 wrote:Posted By: Bad1996
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 9:20pm
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Well the message is real and it seems to clear fairly quick. Looks the same, tastes the same then it....never mind :-) I only have one short flight with the Lynx, very bumpy and waiting on an autopilot part so I was hand flying and didn't get a lot of detail. It does sound exactly the same though. anyhow, I hope it's a 540 issue and not the MLB and that the fix takes care of my issue too. The AVIDYNE dealer did say it would display the basic traffic info. |
Posted By: sikhpilotmd
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 7:34am
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Is it "datalink error "? If so, I get that all the time with AXP 340-MLB100-IFD 540 combos |
Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 7:39am
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No it's not. We would need your datalogs to see what you are experiencing. ------------- Steve Jacobson sjacobson@avidyne.com |