Operation Manual

LX90xx system Version 4.0 February 2014
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6.1.12.3 Vario indicator V5*
V5 Vario indicator is having mechanical needle and colour screen with 320x240 pixels
resolution on which user selectable data are displayed.
Each V5 vario indicator is identified by a serial number, which is also displayed on hardware
menu. Therefore literally unlimited number of vario indicators can be connected to RS485
bus and each of them can be setup separately.
Description of vario indicator is shown on next picture.
Mechanical needle displays vario, netto, relative or speed to fly value. It can be setup
separately for climb mode or cruising mode. Printed scale can be chosen in range from -5 to
5 or from -10 to 10. Within software range can be set to 2.5, 5, 10m/s or 5, 10, 20kts or
500, 1000, 2000fpm.
Upper number and Lower number can be configured as average vario, time, flight time,
task remaining time, netto value, outside temperature, thermal average, indicated airspeed,
true airspeed, current altitude, distance to goal, arrival altitude, Last 60 minutes speed,
altitude in feet, flight levels, voltage or average netto. It can be setup separately for climb
mode or cruising mode.
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 can show average vertical speed or current g-load.
Blue arrow symbol shows current MacCready value.
Mechanical needle
Average
Mechanical needle
vario symbol
Thermal average
GPS status
Range
Upper number
Climb/cruise symbol
Speed to fly symbol
Battery
B
Needle type
MacCready symbol
Speed to fly symbol
Lower number
B