User guide

SV-MAP-270 Navigation Mapping Software
SkyView Pilot’s User Guide - Revision Q 7-29
 Relative altitude in hundreds of feet is displayed above the symbol as a signed integer.
So, the target in Figure 91 is +08, or 800 feet higher than our aircraft. This area is blank if
the altitude of a target is not known.
 An up or down arrow to the right of the traffic symbol indicating whether the aircraft is
climbing or descending, if available from the traffic source. No arrow is shown when an
aircraft is maintaining altitude, or if climb/descend information is not available. Traffic
from TIS traffic sources such as the SV-XPNDR-26X will not show a vertical speed
component unless it is greater than +/-500 fpm
 If available from the traffic device, an orange vector arrow that starts at the target and
points in the aircraft’s direction of travel. This length of the vector represents where the
aircraft is expected to be in one minute based on its current trajectory.
o The data received by a TIS device (such as the SV-XPNDR-26X) does not include
the speed of aircraft since it is not sent by the ground-based TIS equipment.
SkyView therefore assumes that all TIS targets are travelling at 150 knots.
o TIS additionally only provides the direction that individual traffic targets are
moving in to the nearest 45° increment (0 °, 45°, 90°, etc.). This limitation may be
noticed as a seemingly abrupt change in aircraft direction on the display as the
traffic direction “snaps” from one 45° increment to the next when the TIS device
updates an aircraft’s direction.
Traffic displayed on the Map Page can be configured to include just Traffic
Advisories (TA), all targets, or no targets. See the SkyView System Installation Guide
for information on how to configure how traffic is displayed.
Traffic Advisory (TA) Targets
Figure 92 - Traffic Advisory (TA) Symbol
Figure 93 - TA Symbol (off-screen)
These are targets that have a high chance of ending up near the aircraft. They will often be
lower priority targets that then become higher priority targets as they approach. SkyView
considers a target a threat if the device providing traffic reports that it is a threat. The TIS
system considers a target to be a threat if it is calculated to be within 1/4 mile of your aircraft at
its closest approach within 30 seconds (20 seconds if the target is not reporting altitude). Other
traffic devices may have different criteria for reporting traffic as threats. Refer to their
documentation for more information.
If a target is a Traffic Advisory but cannot be displayed on the screen because its location is
beyond the edge of the map at its current zoom level, it will appear at the edge of the Map
Page, half shaded as seen in Figure 93 above (the darkly shaded area of the Traffic Advisory