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EchoMap 3.0
User’s Guide
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EchoMap v3.0 This Manual is for users of EchoMap, on an Echo Flight Flight Cheetah Multi- Function-Display or a Windows® laptop. An electronic version of this manual will be installed to /Echomap/Docs/EchoMapGuide.pdf 1/22/2002 Version 3.0 2
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EchoMap v3.0 Please read the following information • Echo Flight provides weather and messaging only in the Continental U.S. and surrounding offshore areas • Echo Flight continues to develop new technologies to provide pilots with new and exciting ways to gather information in the cockpit. For a full understanding of how the system should be used, please refer to the Echo Flight, Inc. Services and Systems Agreement. • This product is meant to augment, not replace pilot voice communic
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EchoMap v3.0 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ...............................................................................7 1.1 System Requirements ..........................................................7 1.2 Data-Link and GPS...............................................................7 2. Flight Display Indicators ..........................................................8 2.1 Heading Indicator..................................................................9 2.2 Obstacle Aler
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EchoMap v3.0 4.1.1 Airport Facility Page........................................................24 4.1.2 Airport Frequency Page..................................................25 4.1.3 Airport Map Page............................................................25 4.1.4 Airport Metar Weather Page...........................................26 4.1.5 Airport Plates Page.........................................................26 4.2 VOR Info Page ................................................
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EchoMap v3.0 7.4.6 How to read Graphical Wind Speed and Direction .........48 7.4.7 How to read Graphical Temperature Dew-point Spreads49 7.4.8 How to View Weather Overlays ......................................49 7.5 Text Metar Reports.............................................................50 8. In Flight Email..........................................................................51 8.1 How to Send Email .............................................................51 8.2 Receivin
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EchoMap v3.0 1. INTRODUCTION 1. INTRODUCTION This Manual is for users of the EchoMap software running on a either an Echo Flight Flight Cheetah Multi-Function-Display or a Windows laptop/tablet computer. Reading this manual will introduce you to the powerful features and functions of EchoMap. You should install software on your home computer to practice in demo mode. See section 4.2.1. 1.1 System Requirements If you are not using the software on a Flight Cheetah flight computer, i
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EchoMap v3.0 2. FLIGHT DISPLAY INDICATORS 2. FLIGHT DISPLAY INDICATORS EchoMap has been optimized for maximum flexibility, capability and ease of use in flight. Please take a few moments to review its functions to get the most of its capabilities. The flight display screen consists of six separate sections: 1. Heading information, upper left panel. 2. Obstacle Alert, second down on left. 3. Direct to location, third down on left. 4. Position information, lower center left panel. 5.
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EchoMap v3.0 2.1 Heading Indicator The first section of the flight display is the heading indicator in the upper left corner of the screen. The top yellow number is the magnetic heading to your waypoint. The lower white number is your actual current track. The visual aircraft indicator shows the number of degrees off course, in this case 6 degrees to the left of the correct heading represented by the yellow triangle below the magnetic heading. The tick marks show how many degrees
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EchoMap v3.0 2.4 Position Indicators Directly below the direct to indicator is the navigation box. This box displays current navigational information during flight. The first two lines are Distance to the Waypoint and Ground Speed. The third line displays the Estimated Time Enroute (ETE) to the target waypoint. ETE is computed on your actual track and closure rate, (not just distance divided by ground speed), to give you an extremely accurate time. For this reason, the ETE indic
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EchoMap v3.0 2.5.1 Satellite Indicator Colors The ORBCOMM status indicator shows whether you have established a link with the satellites and whether you are transmitting or receiving. Color ORBCOMM Satellite Indications (upper left) No signal is being received on the serial port or the satellite transceiver has failed its initial check and verification. Red Remedy: Confirm that the satellite transceiver is receiving power and is connected securely to the computer’s serial port usi
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EchoMap v3.0 Send queue empty and waiting. Green 2.5.2 Satellite Indicator Examples You have no connection with the Satellite transceiver. All indicators are red. You have a connection with the satellite transceiver, but no lock with either GPS or ORBCOMM satellites. You have made one WX request, which is waiting for a connection to send. If this persists, check your antenna or verify antennas have a clear sky view. Poor lock on with ORBCOMM Sat A3, all noise (red bar).
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EchoMap v3.0 2.6 Moving Map Panel The sixth and largest section of the EchoMap display is the moving map that shows your aircraft’s current position in relation to airports, airspaces, Navaids, weather and a wide range of other data. To maximize situational awareness of presented data, colors are chosen for optimum legibility and menus are logically grouped for ease of use. The map range is displayed in the upper-right corner of the moving map. It indicates the
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EchoMap v3.0 3. GPS MOVING MAP 3. GPS MOVING MAP Echomap has an extremely flexible GPS moving map. It has been optimized for maximum capability in flight with minimum heads down time. Please take a few moments to review its functions to get the most of its capabilities. Most features in EchoMap are accessed through five top level menus that correspond to the NAV, INFO, MSG, WX and D-> keys on a Flight Cheetah MFD, or the F1-F5 keys on a regular keyboard. If you have install
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EchoMap v3.0 Map - The map menu lets you customize the display options for the moving map, including which layers of navaid data are displayed on the map as well as filtering options. Routes - The routes menu lets you create user defined routes and waypoints. GPS Settings - The mode menu lets you select whether the display is in demo mode, GPS mode or playback. The default normally selects GPS mode. System - The System menu provides access to system configuration and diagnostics
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EchoMap v3.0 3.4 Navaid Overlays The Up arrow and Down arrow allows you to scroll through different customized layers of navigational data such as airspace, highways and airways. To read more on how to customize your own layers please refer to 3.10 3.5 Terrain Contour The terrain contour background map displays terrain in solid shades of color. The color mapping is based on the elevation coloring of standard sectional charts, but slightly adjusted for improved on- screen visibili
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EchoMap v3.0 positioned below the heading indicator. If there is no GPS altitude available, this area will display as a red and white slashed bar that says NO ALT or NO GPS. Terrain and tower alert conditions are always calculated, even when terrain and towers are not being displayed on the map. 3.6.1 Terrain Alert Indicator Echomap will display a terrain alert icon if there is terrain within 8 minutes ( based on your current GPS ground speed ) and 500 ft of your current altitude.
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EchoMap v3.0 The terrain alert overlay shows only terrain that is within 1500 feet of your current GPS altitude. The terrain alert overlay is color- coded so that areas within 500 feet of your altitude display red, 500-1000 feet are in yellow and 1000 feet-1500 feet green. Anything in excess of 1500 feet clearance is not displayed. 3.7 Display The Terrain Alert Overlay Press the Nav button, select Terrain. In the Terrain menu select Map: ON and Mode: Alert. Next press Enter
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EchoMap v3.0 Press the Nav button, select Terrain. In the Terrain menu select Map: ON and Mode: Both. Next press Enter to remove the menu. You can toggle this function on and off your moving map display by pressing Nav Enter Enter. The image below shows both the terrain contour map and alert overlay at the same time. If NexRAD radar and terrain overlay are both set on, the map will alternate between the dotted radar images and the solid colors of the terrain alert. Note - GPS al
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EchoMap v3.0 compass and aircraft position on the screen. In addition you have the option to display your course line for your route of flight as well as runway extensions and 45 degree lines of entry. To open the Map Display Settings menu, press the Nav button, select Map, then select Display Settings and press Enter. 3.9.1 Change Your Map Compass Display The Pos setting lets you use the Left and Right arrow keys to cycle through the moving map display modes of Top, North, Center an
