flyWithCE - DownLoader

DownLoader

DownLoader is program for downloading recorded flights from IGC certified flight recorders. It is written for Palm PC (OS version 2.01 and 2.11) and Pocket PC devices (OS version 3.00) and is running on MIPS, SH3 or ARM microprocessors. Following flight recorders are currently supported:

LX Navigation / Filser

Colibri, LX20, DX50, LX5000, LX7000, LX7000pro

SDI Variometer

PosiGraph

Pocket PC with DownLoader program is perfect replacement for quite big and usually very expensive notebooks, which displays are usually poorly visible under direct sunlight. After download you can check flights with Analyze. At home you can transfer flights from Pocket PC to your desktop computer where you have other flight analysis software.

Download trough LX1600 instrument

If you are using one of the supported flight recorders and LX1600 instrument, you can communicate with flight recorder through LX1600 instrument. You do not need any additional cables or adapters, because communication cable is supplied with LX1600 instrument.

DownLoader cable

First you need serial cable, which you should buy with new Pocket PC. Then you also need adapter to connect serial cable to PC cable (shipped with the instrument) or instrument.

Adapter	Picture	Device	Comment
NULL adapter		DX50, LX5000	You can connect Pocket PC serial cable to PC connection cable (supplied with instrument) using NULL adapter. This is NULL modem adapter with male DB9 connectors on each side.
LX adapter		LX20, Colibri, Posigraph	This adapter connects directly to flight recorder.

You can easily download flights from LX20, Colibri and Posigraph using LX adapter. It has three connectors:

RJ male on cable - connected to flight recorder

RJ female - connected to cockpit power supply

DB9 male - connected to Pocket PC via serial cable

Click on the picture on the right to see the bigger picture.

NULL modem adapter or LX adapter can be also purchased together with DownLoader registration key.

Short help

Setup

In setup windows you can change the communication speed. Default setting is 19200 bits per second. If you will change the communication speed than you have to make sure that you have the same speed selected in the instrument.

Select check box when you are connecting to flight recorder trough LX1600 instrument.

If you select the option Download flight log at connect, than program will download flight log at connect time. Because this takes time I would recommend that you disable this option and rather use Flight log option on Flights tab.

If you are flying the club planes, than you will have to change pilot information (declared in flight recorder) before every flight. By entering default pilot name and selecting this option, program will help you update the pilot declaration on the Flight info tab.

Flight info

In flight info view you can review and change several information, which is stored inside your flight recorder. This is usually information about the pilot, the flight recorder and the plane. You can edit data with double click in lines, which start with the dot.

The color of dot represents:
Green	value is the same as in instrument
Red	value is not the same - press Upload button for update
Blue	value is not the same as default - press Default button for update

Default value is set in Setup dialog window (select File - Setup menu option).

Waypoints

In this view you can upload or download waypoint database.

Waypoint file that you can upload must be prepared in DA4 format. In the same format are waypoints downloaded.

Flights

This is the place where all recorded flights are listed. You first select the flight and then push download button. Flights are then transferred to \My Documents\Flights directory.

In Settings window you can disable flight log download at connection. To download flight log you have to press Flight Log button.

Download / Upload dialog

Additional information is displayed in the Download / Upload dialog. If connection or download is not successful please follow the instructions displayed in the dialog window.