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eub...@gmail.com
Jul 31, 2018, 10:56:46 PM7/31/18
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Proving I have too much time on my hands I re-formatted the Avare manual. I inserted the section on entering a flight plan from the help file. The PDF has links to various topics and a return link at every topic. I does not include the latest release 7.9.0.
John W SBA
Aug 1, 2018, 12:41:32 AM8/1/18
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> I re-formatted the Avare manual. I inserted the section on
> entering a flight plan from the help file.
Wow, thanks! :D
> entering a flight plan from the help file.
If you have an easily editable version, might you post that too so that
others could participate? It would be great to have an online
collaboration on updating it going forward, if you have any ideas.
> has links to various topics and a return link at every topic.
> does not include the latest release 7.9.0.
changes too. Good news is, Avare keeps improving. Less good is that
the static documentation has never really kept up. Unless we can find
someone to do revisions for every update, or a way to form a
collaborative team to spread the workload, this Forum may be our only
way of having current documentation beyond the in-app Help.
Anyway, thanks for the work and for sharing it here. :)
Happy Flying -j
eub...@gmail.com
Aug 1, 2018, 4:37:12 PM8/1/18
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This file was created with Microsoft Word 2003. You will need Adobe Acrobat to turn it into a PDF. Acrobat will keep the linked bookmarks. I was about to explain how to do bookmarks and inter-document hyper-links but while it is not hard to do it is a bit harder to explain. The links make the document more user friendly. As I was doing the edit I realize how much is left out of this manual. For instance, the help file has a decent explanation of how to do flight planning. I could not find any text document for the Help file. If anyone has a text copy of the help file it would be good place to start.
eub...@gmail.com
Aug 1, 2018, 4:38:27 PM8/1/18
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I just posted the Doc.
John W SBA
Aug 1, 2018, 8:09:58 PM8/1/18
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> about to explain how to do bookmarks and inter-document hyper-links
The Dev Team members are well-versed in that of course. The original
in-app Help file was done in html with topic links, but I don't know
whether the current one retained them nor if the app can use them. We
used to have a copy of the most recent Help file on the website with the
html functional, but it was a lot of work and difficult to coordinate
with our amazing fast-moving all-volunteer Dev Team.
> If anyone has a text copy of the help file it
> would be good place to start.
additional material or tweaks), please do. You could post your updates
here in html and pdf so that everyone could use them, and someone on the
Dev Team might also integrate your work into the in-app Help file I got
this file from.
Thanks for what you've done already. :)
Happy Flying -j
barr...@gmail.com
Sep 13, 2020, 2:53:12 PM9/13/20
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Thank you for typing the manual. I have a question on page 11. I am testing AVARE using Stratux on my workbench. I am not flying for this test. I know ADSB is working because I can view aviation traffic on my Samsung tablet. 1090 & 978 are connected (two antenna). What I am trying to retrieve is ADSB weather. "Preferences/Weather/Use ADSB Weather" is checked. "AIRMET/SIGMET TYPE" = ALL. "DOWNLOAD WEATHER/TFRS" has a down arrow. I press GET and the system says "Downloading/ Extracting TFRS.zip" but then it terminates and says "DOWNLOAD FAILED: TFRS, code unable to connect to server". The same thing happens with METARS, NEXRAD, and STADIUMS.
I suspect it fails because I do not enough altitude for 978 to retrieve FIS-B from a tower. Is that correct? The traffic I am seeing is coming from 1090 but 1090 does not offer FIS-B. Correct?
Jeffrey Ross
Sep 13, 2020, 3:38:16 PM9/13/20
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Barry,
Forgive me I know I'm giving way too much information but hopefully it can provide some information to you and others what data you can expect.
What you are looking for is ADS-B IN and the in portion of ADS-B consists of three ground based services TIS-B (Traffic Information Service-Broadcast), FIS-B (Flight Information System-Broadcast), and ADS-R (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Rebroadcast), plus a fourth source of data for your ADS-B in unit listening for other airborne traffic (aircraft to aircraft).
TIS-B - is the FAA broadcasting the position of non-ADS-B equipped aircraft to ADS-B out equipped aircraft, the transmission can be on UAT(978MHz) or 1090ES (1090MHz) depending upon your receiver and is commonly referred to as your traffic "hockey puck"
FIS-B - is the WX(METAR, TAF, Winds, Nexrad), NOTAMs, Pireps, etc (there is a whole list in the AIM, Avare doesn't support them all yet) that the FAA transmits, this is transmitted on UAT.
ADS-R - is the FAA rebroadcasting UAT traffic on 1090 or vice versa in the event your aircraft can only listen on one frequency. In order for ADS-R to work your transponder must be programmed to alert the ground stations that you can only listen on the one frequency.
In terms of receiving data, what you are seeing is your ADS-B unit receiving traffic position reports from other airborne traffic, every ADS-B out equipped aircraft (UAT or 1090) will transmit once per second various flight related data, unlike the old traditional radar environment the transponder does not need to be "interrogated" to make the once per second transmission.
In order to receive TIS-B, FIS-B, or ADS-R data you must be within range of a ground transmitter, and because of how their antennas are designed the vast majority of their signal is broadcast upwards in a wide cone shape, this leaves a very weak signal for aircraft of the ground and depending upon the terrain the range on the ground maybe only be a couple of miles or less from the transmitter. The cone shaped radiated signal pattern is why the FAA says that most ADS-B in coverage starts at about 3000ft (?) AGL for most areas of the country.
The error you are getting about unable to reach the server is when you try to download data you are trying to reach the Avare servers on the internet to obtain data, you are not connected to the internet which is why you are getting the error, ADS-B in data relies on the above to obtain data.
Lastly my very unscientific observation running a receiver at home shows that most aircraft, or at least in the NY area are using 1090ES transponders and not using UAT, I'm guessing when it came time to adding a UAT transmitter to an aging transponder with a tube the cost difference to upgrade to a 1090ES unit vs installing a UAT unit wasn't that much more and you got a new solid state unit.
Jeff
Forgive me I know I'm giving way too much information but hopefully it can provide some information to you and others what data you can expect.
What you are looking for is ADS-B IN and the in portion of ADS-B consists of three ground based services TIS-B (Traffic Information Service-Broadcast), FIS-B (Flight Information System-Broadcast), and ADS-R (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Rebroadcast), plus a fourth source of data for your ADS-B in unit listening for other airborne traffic (aircraft to aircraft).
TIS-B - is the FAA broadcasting the position of non-ADS-B equipped aircraft to ADS-B out equipped aircraft, the transmission can be on UAT(978MHz) or 1090ES (1090MHz) depending upon your receiver and is commonly referred to as your traffic "hockey puck"
FIS-B - is the WX(METAR, TAF, Winds, Nexrad), NOTAMs, Pireps, etc (there is a whole list in the AIM, Avare doesn't support them all yet) that the FAA transmits, this is transmitted on UAT.
ADS-R - is the FAA rebroadcasting UAT traffic on 1090 or vice versa in the event your aircraft can only listen on one frequency. In order for ADS-R to work your transponder must be programmed to alert the ground stations that you can only listen on the one frequency.
In terms of receiving data, what you are seeing is your ADS-B unit receiving traffic position reports from other airborne traffic, every ADS-B out equipped aircraft (UAT or 1090) will transmit once per second various flight related data, unlike the old traditional radar environment the transponder does not need to be "interrogated" to make the once per second transmission.
In order to receive TIS-B, FIS-B, or ADS-R data you must be within range of a ground transmitter, and because of how their antennas are designed the vast majority of their signal is broadcast upwards in a wide cone shape, this leaves a very weak signal for aircraft of the ground and depending upon the terrain the range on the ground maybe only be a couple of miles or less from the transmitter. The cone shaped radiated signal pattern is why the FAA says that most ADS-B in coverage starts at about 3000ft (?) AGL for most areas of the country.
The error you are getting about unable to reach the server is when you try to download data you are trying to reach the Avare servers on the internet to obtain data, you are not connected to the internet which is why you are getting the error, ADS-B in data relies on the above to obtain data.
Lastly my very unscientific observation running a receiver at home shows that most aircraft, or at least in the NY area are using 1090ES transponders and not using UAT, I'm guessing when it came time to adding a UAT transmitter to an aging transponder with a tube the cost difference to upgrade to a 1090ES unit vs installing a UAT unit wasn't that much more and you got a new solid state unit.
Jeff
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barr...@gmail.com
Sep 14, 2020, 8:53:07 AM9/14/20
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That was an incredible explanation, very helpful. I took the liberty of creating a WORD document from your message. I embedded images from Stratux along with a couple of questions into the document. Thank you for taking the time.
Sam Hoskins
Oct 10, 2022, 5:47:34 PM10/10/22
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What is the statue of this project.?
Peter A. Gustafson
Oct 11, 2022, 9:25:01 AM10/11/22
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The manual? Or the word doc.
Our home page (which also acts as an offline manual of sorts) is hosted on github. I'm happy to merge any changes (or post changes myself if you send me the word doc).
To edit, go here:
https://github.com/avare-docs/avare-docs.github.io
Pete
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