User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Important Safety Instructions
- Getting Started
- Receiver
- Receiver Menus
- Locating Basics
- Advanced Locating
- Transmitter
- Appendix A: System Specifications
- Appendix B: Receiver Screen Symbols
- Appendix C: Projected Depth Versus Actual Depth and the Fore/Aft Offset
- Appendix D: Calculating Depth Based on Distance Between FLP and RLP
- Appendix E: Reference Tables
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Flags and Pins
While recording a DataLog, at the Locate screen, toggle right to set a Flag or Pin. Match flags and pins later
with entries in your drilling log book to add important detail to your Log-While-Drilling report.
Flags
Select a Flag when crossing any item of interest along the bore path, like a sidewalk, marked utility line, or
river bank. The receiver internally assigns a sequential flag number starting at 1. Enter the approximate
distance along the current rod; the receiver will calculate the total horizontal distance of the flag based on the
total number of rods already logged.
Pins
Select a Pin to mark the location of a nearby land feature point (station mark, survey flag, fire hydrant, light
post) that can help locate the bore path later. Setting a pin requires three pieces of data:
1. An identifying number. Use any number, like a survey station mark.
2. The approximate distance along the current rod (if halfway along a 10 ft. rod, enter 5 ft.).
3. The distance of the drill head to the right or left of the feature (perpendicular). In the preceding
image, because the drill head is to the right of the fire hydrant "feature", the pin is recorded as to the
right.
Diagnostics
This menu lets you check the performance of your Falcon F5 receiver.
1. Level check
2. System self-test
3. Signal self-test
4. Exit
Diagnostics Menus