LX Navigation LX Traffic Monitor

LX Navigation Traffic Monitor is a displaying unit with a bright, transflective technology display, which offers the pilot multiple navigation pages. It is a final glide calculator and navigation system with an internal battery, audio warnings and voice messages.

The unit is capable of providing APT (airport), TP (turnpoint), and RTE (Route) navigation on three dedicated navigational pages. It also has a page showing detailed information regarding nearest objects with additional options. Navigation pages feature Navboxes, and Airspace, airports and turnpoint information is shown graphically.

The Traffic Monitor is designed to be installed into a standard 57mm or 80mm aviation instrument hole, depending on which size you have.

As an integral part, it has a 3.5″ sunshine readable transflective LCD display (on the 80mm version) and a 2.5″ screen (on the 57mm version) to show all user–defined data during flight.

For accessing all system options, two push–rotary knobs and two push buttons are used. A voice module is also built–in for audio warnings.

It also boasts 16 GB of internal memory, used for storing flights, aircraft info, databases etc.

• 3.5″ 320x240 transflective technology sunlight readable display or a 2.5″ display
• Capable of connecting to either an LX CAN device or any Flarm protocol device
• 3.5mm audio jack for connecting to either speakers or intercoms
• Voice module as an integrated part of the system
• External SD Card interface, for firmware updates and TP/RTE/APT/Airspace transfers
• The built–in rechargeable battery which provides 3 to 5 hours of autonomy in emergencies
• Support for Metric, Imperial and UK units
• 2 independent navigational pages – TP (Turnpoint), APT (airport)
• TP and APT navigation with airspace information and warnings
• 2Flight information with Barograph
• Voice alerts
• User warnings

The unit has the capability to be updated to any later FW version free of charge.

• LX Traffic monitor 57 or LX Traffic monitor 80
• CAN cable or 1:1 FLARM cable (CAN or FLARM version)

LX Navigation is one of the oldest glider navigation brands. Its founders started experimenting with glider computers way back in the 70's and the company has been working on improving your flight performance ever since.

Throughout the last 40 years or so it has been working on instruments that most pilots will have used at some time. In fact, our equipment can be found in almost any gliding club!

Our equipment has always been ground–breaking.

Our motto? – Be the first. Be the best. Be different.

Because Traffic Monitor was and still is being designed for complete situational awareness of the pilot in clustered situations, all in desire to stop mid–air collisions.

The Traffic Monitor is a displaying unit capable of working with both Flarm and LX (CAN) devices, showing everything ranging from ground object to Flarm and ADS–B objects. It is a unit, which requires an input device, such as a Flarm device, but offers a lot more than just Flarm warnings. It offers complete situational awareness, innovative displaying of approaching objects, object classification, audio warnings, a Voice module, basic Route and Waypoint navigation, Airspace navigation with moving map and more.

It comes in both 80mm and 57mm sizes.

Switching the unit on: To turn the unit on, press and hold the left (zoom) push/rotary knob for 3 seconds.

Switching the unit off: On the ground (the flight recorder is not running), disconnecting the main power supply will turn it off. LX Traffic Monitor will start to count down 3 seconds before it will turn off. You can also turn the unit off by going to the Setup page and scrolling down to Shut down. After selecting the shutdown option, you will be asked to confirm. After the confirmation, the unit will perform a 3 second countdown and then turn off.

In flight mode (LX Traffic Monitor detects IAS and flight recorder is running) it will not switch off until the flight has ended, unless the Shutdown option in Setup menu is used. Otherwise, the flight will end 10 min after landing or manually by the user.

To manually end the flight, refer to the instructions found in the statistic page section.

Input push buttons and push–rotary knobs: The LX Traffic Monitor has two push buttons and two push/rotary knobs for operation.

The left push/rotary knob, labelled with a magnifying glass, is used for the following operations:
• Turning the device on, when being held for three seconds
• Cancel or Exit, when pressed in most menus
• Zoom level change by turning on navigation pages
• Changing numeric values by tenfold when turning
• Additional info, when pressed while using navigation pages

The right push/rotary knob, labelled with ‘NAVBOX’ icon, is used for the following operations:
• Scrolling between primary pages by turning
• Changing numeric values by one when turning
• Enter or confirm, when pressed in most menus
• Enter submenu, when pressed in primary pages
• Change/edit NavBox, when being held for two seconds in any page that contains a NavBox line

The left button, labelled with ‘BOX’, is used for the following operations:
• Show/Hide and slide between different NavBox lines, when pressed in any page containing a NavBox line
• Change/edit NavBox, when being held for two seconds

The right button, labelled with ‘VOL’ is used for the following operations:
• Open MC submenu, when on any primary page
• Scroll between options in MC submenu, when pressed

The primary pages represent a row of pages in the graphical user interface, which allow the user to access different information screens and flight parameters.

The user will go through the following pages, in their respective order, if he swipes to the right:

Usable only when a Flarm and/or ADS–B device is connected. If the Flarm device is not connected, red cross will appear. The device is capable of showing all traffic processed by the Flarm (Flarm objects, ADS–B and Transponder).

In order to use this page to its maximum extent, the user should first import turnpoint, airspace, and airfield files. For more information on this subject, please refer to Setup/Transfer/Load Turnpoints.

In order to use this page to its maximum extent, the user should first import airports, airspace, and airfield files. For more information on this subject, please refer to Setup/Transfer/Load airports.

Appears when the Flarm device sends a warning to its displays. The page itself shows all relevant info to the pilot with symbols, graphics and numbers.

Info page shows the following info:
• current GPS status
• date
• latitude
• longitude
• UTC time
• Voltage of external battery
• Voltage of internal battery
• Flarm status
• Flarm ID

Pressing the right ‘VOL’ button will open the VOL submenu, where we can see the Flarm, GPS and battery status indicators, and the following values can be set:
• Volume
• Brightness

Flight statistics page appear instead of logbook page only when the unit is in flight mode. It shows us our barograph, with time on the x–axis and altitude on the y–axis.

The maximal altitude, flight duration and take–off time are shown. When not in flight mode, Logbook is shown.

Pressing the right ‘VOL’ button will open the VOL submenu, where we can see the Flarm, GPS and battery status indicators, and the following values can be set:
• Volume
• Brightness

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Under setup, the pilot can set all parameters of the unit. The menus are divided into two subsections, User and System. User settings are concerning the pilot’s personal preferences, while System settings are concerned to the device setup. The menus are following:
• User:
• Voice
• Pages
• Graphic
• Transfer
• System
• Units
• NMEA
• Network
• Localization
• Service
• Shutdown
• Exit

Gives us the option to set volume for Voice commands and which voice commands we wish to hear. Mixer and Volume for voice warnings can be set, as well as selection of warnings, which should be used by the voice module

The pilot can select which main pages are active. Page is active when box is checked. There are eight main pages available:
• Flarm
• TP page (turnpoint)
• APT page (airport)
• RTE/TSK page (route/task)
• GPS Info

The Graphic setup is where you can set custom colors for Airspace, Map and Task, as well as set font sizes for map objects. By selecting Theme you can either select “Black panel” for black background or “White Panel” for white background.

In the Airspace menu you following submenus to edit:
• Controlled Zone
• Prohibited
• Restricted
• Danger
• Terminal area
• Airway
• Glider
• Military
• Other
• Class A, B
• Class C
• Class D
• Class E
• Class F

Under each submenu you can find Outline and Fill row. Some have only Outline. By selecting each row you enter the menu with scroll bar for selecting the color. As described in point 1.4 Basic use & gestures.

Once you have adjusted the color you want to use, press back on the top left corner of display and the settings will be saved and you will return to submenu.

The same logic applies to set color for Fill.

We offer two different color themes, a ‘White panel’ and ‘Black panel’ theme. Pilots can choose to their taste and visibility. Please note that after choosing a theme, the device will turn itself off.

The transfer page is used for transferring turnpoint and task files (.cup), airport files (.af), airspace files (.cub) and FlarmNET files.

It is also used for selecting active files and deleting old files.

‘Load’ is used to upload a file from the microSD card to internal memory.

‘Select’ is used to select between multiple files from internal storage.

Warnings

Warnings are used to inform the pilot that some flight-related data is outside set margins. When a warning state is detected by LX Traffic Monitor, the pilot will get a red warning message box with a description of what is outside margins.

The pilot can enable (box is checked) audio warnings and Flarm warnings.
• Audio: if disabled, voice warning will not be generated – only visual warning message box
• Altitude warning: warning when flying over selected altitude

Store the LX Traffic Monitor in a dry environment, with a temperature below 25°C.

When you store the LX Traffic Monitor for a long period, it is recommended that the battery charge be kept to at least 50%. Regularly check the battery status and charge if needed.

The internal battery will charge every time the unit is connected to the external power source.