Alfapilot M16 User manual

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Content index
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................................5
2. GENERAL BUTTONS ................................................................................................................5
2.1 POWER BUTTON .......................................................................................................................................... 5
2.2 MENU BUTTON............................................................................................................................................ 5
2.3 BACK BUTTON ............................................................................................................................................. 5
2.4 LATERAL BUTTONS........................................................................................................................................ 5
3. MAIN SCREEN.........................................................................................................................6
3.1 ENABLE/DISABLE SHARE GPS......................................................................................................................... 6
4. SERI FLY APP...........................................................................................................................7
5. MAIN MENU...........................................................................................................................7
5.1 FLIGHT MODES ............................................................................................................................................ 7
5.2 FLIGHT BOOK............................................................................................................................................... 8
5.2.1 ADD/MERGE Track ............................................................................................................................................ 8
5.2.2 Import .............................................................................................................................................................. 8
5.2.3 Export ............................................................................................................................................................... 9
5.2.4 Show Info/Track ................................................................................................................................................ 9
5.2.5 IGC Play ............................................................................................................................................................ 9
5.2.6 Delete............................................................................................................................................................... 9
5.3 GNSS STATUS ......................................................................................................................................... 10
5.3.1 Status Bar ........................................................................................................................................................ 10
5.3.2 GNSS Fix Status ............................................................................................................................................... 10
5.3.3 In View ............................................................................................................................................................ 10
5.3.4 In Used ........................................................................................................................................................... 10
5.3.5 Accuracy .......................................................................................................................................................... 10
5.3.6 Satellites.......................................................................................................................................................... 10
6. GLOBAL SETTINGS ................................................................................................................11
6.1 PILOT DATA............................................................................................................................................... 11
6.2 GLIDER DATA............................................................................................................................................. 12
6.3 SYSTEM .................................................................................................................................................... 12
6.3.1 Export configuration ....................................................................................................................................... 13
6.3.2 Import Configuration ...................................................................................................................................... 13
6.3.3 Use External SD (Class 10)............................................................................................................................... 13
6.3.4 Update SeRi Fly APP ........................................................................................................................................ 13
6.3.5 TEST BETA VERSION SeRi Fly APP.................................................................................................................... 13
6.3.6 System Units ................................................................................................................................................... 13
6.3.7 Kalman Filter Settings ..................................................................................................................................... 14
6.3.8 Send Logs ........................................................................................................................................................ 14
6.4 AUDIO SETTINGS ........................................................................................................................................ 14
6.4.1 Vario Settings .................................................................................................................................................. 15
6.4.2 Alerts Settings ................................................................................................................................................. 19
6.4.3 Set Max Volume at Start SeRi FLY ................................................................................................................... 19
6.4.4 Mute Vario when not fly ................................................................................................................................. 19
6.5DISPLAY SETTINGS ...................................................................................................................................... 19
6.5.1 Minimum size Widget ..................................................................................................................................... 19
6.5.2 Number of screens in flight............................................................................................................................. 20
6.5.3 Orientation Screen .......................................................................................................................................... 20
6.5.4 Enable Two Refresh of Map per Second ......................................................................................................... 20
6.5.5 Automatic window change in competition ..................................................................................................... 20

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6.6 LIVE TRACK &TEAM. .................................................................................................................................. 20
6.6.1 Server Live Track 24 ........................................................................................................................................ 20
6.6.2 Server LocTome............................................................................................................................................... 20
6.6.3 Fly Team .......................................................................................................................................................... 21
6.7 MANAGERS [MAPS -WAYPOINTS -THERMALS -AIR SPACES]............................................................................ 21
6.7.1 Send or Receive............................................................................................................................................... 21
6.7.2 Manage WayPoints ......................................................................................................................................... 23
6.7.3 Manage Thermals ........................................................................................................................................... 24
6.7.4 Manage Air Spaces.......................................................................................................................................... 25
6.7.5 Map Manager.................................................................................................................................................. 26
6.7.6 Map Settings ................................................................................................................................................... 26
6.7.7 Download Maps .............................................................................................................................................. 26
6.8 FLIGHT VALUES .......................................................................................................................................... 27
6.8.1 Altitude limit for Air Spaces ............................................................................................................................ 27
6.8.2 Config Thermals Values................................................................................................................................... 28
6.8.3 Takeoff Detection............................................................................................................................................ 28
6.8.4 Landing Detection ........................................................................................................................................... 28
6.8.5 Order WayPoints by Distance in Flight XC ...................................................................................................... 28
6.8.6 Show Track Duration on Map - Minutes ......................................................................................................... 28
6.8.7 Select Type of Ellipsoid - Distance Calculations .............................................................................................. 29
6.9 ASIGNING KEYS .......................................................................................................................................... 29
6.10 ABOUT US .............................................................................................................................................. 29
7. FLIGHT MODES .....................................................................................................................29
7.1 BUTTONS IN FLIGHT MODE .......................................................................................................................... 29
7.2 FLIGHT SCREEN .......................................................................................................................................... 31
7.3 WIDGETS .................................................................................................................................................. 31
7.4 MENU OPTIONS -COMMON ELEMENTS......................................................................................................... 32
7.4.1 SetQNH............................................................................................................................................................ 32
7.4.2 Add WayPoint ................................................................................................................................................. 32
7.4.5 Back................................................................................................................................................................. 33
7.5 MENU OPTIONS -SPECIFIC ELEMENTS ........................................................................................................... 33
7.5.1 Route Management ....................................................................................................................................... 33
7.5.2 Task Management.......................................................................................................................................... 34
7.5.3 Add - Edit WayPoint ....................................................................................................................................... 35
7.6 MENU OPTIONS -EDIT SCREEN .................................................................................................................... 36
7.6.1 Add/Remove Widgets ..................................................................................................................................... 37
7.6.2 Basic Configuration of Widgets ....................................................................................................................... 37
7.6.3 Configuration and Specifics of Widgets .......................................................................................................... 38
8. FLIGHT MANAGER ................................................................................................................43
8.1 BUTTONS IN FLIGHT MANAGER .................................................................................................................... 43
8.2XC MODALITY ........................................................................................................................................... 44
8.3 ROUTE OR COMPETITION MODALITY ............................................................................................................. 45
9. WIDGETS LIST.......................................................................................................................45
9.1 SYSTEM .................................................................................................................................................... 45
9.2 XI+WIDGETS ............................................................................................................................................ 45
9.3 FLIGHT...................................................................................................................................................... 45
9.4 WEATHER CONDITIONS ............................................................................................................................... 46
9.5 NAVIGATION ............................................................................................................................................. 46
10. FOLDER STRUCTURE SERI FLY..............................................................................................48
11. USE TIPS .............................................................................................................................49

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12. SECURITY ADVICE ...............................................................................................................49
13. GLOSSARY ..........................................................................................................................50
14. CORRECT DISPOSAL OF THIS PRODUCT................................................................................50
15. EUROPEAN REGULATION CE ...............................................................................................51

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1. Introduction
Thank you for using Alfapilot device. This is a navigation device, which has a Android system by extending
its functionality, and allowing install third party applications. If you have any questions or comments about
using our device, you can visit our website www.alfapilot.com or contact by mail with the Support
Department (suppor[email protected])
2. General Buttons
The physical buttons can acquire different functions depending on the application (see sections 7.1 y 8.1),
for a general use their functions are:
2.1 Power Button
We will use it for the turn on/off the device, as well as toggle the mode Stand By.
To power on, press for 3 seconds this button.
To switch off press this button until it shows the dialog "Turn off" (4 seconds).
With a short while on press enters Stand By mode, and with another short press exits this mode.
By long press (around 10 seconds), we'll force the full shutdown.
2.2 Menu Button
Displays a menu if it exists on the screen in which we find ourselves.
2.3 Back Button
It allows to go back to a State or previous screen.
It allows to hide the keyboard on some screens.
2.4 Lateral Buttons
They serve to increase or decrease the volume of the system, it will display the volume bar.

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3. Main Screen
When you start the device screen is displayed (also known as Launcher), at this screen will have the
following:
3.1 Enable/Disable share GPS
This option allows you to activate the GPS to make it available in third-applications*, the GPS status icon
will change to search and indicate the number of satellites in use, also will activate the internall Vario. It has
a few settings (Menu button) that allow us to:
Use barometric altitude - Compensated, allows us to indicate that we want to use the (more
accurate) barometric altitude instead of the GPS altitude, this facilitates applications that
incorporate vario and glide ratio based on altitude calculations are also more precise.
Vario settings, see section 6.4.1.
Update Launcher, allows updating the system launcher.
Update system, allows updating the Android system (more information on our website).
About us, information about the developers.
* third-applications: GPS sharing allows us to provide GPS location to applications such as gaggle, xcsoar, xctrack, google earth, oruxmaps, etc. IT IS
NOT NECESSARY TO USE THIS FUNCTION WITH SeRi FLY.

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4. SeRi FLY APP
This is the application that we have developed for the flight in paragliding, it has different flight modes,
multiple options, being these totally configurable by the user, to adapt the application to your needs, both
in functions, assistants, and in the configuration of the data fields can be resized, moved, etc.
All this will be described in the following sections.
5. Main Menu
When you start the application, the Main Menu screen is displayed, in this screen you can choose the flight
modes, access the flight book, enter the settings of the application and see the status of the GNSS and
other sensors.
In the lower part it shows the information of the developers as well as the current version, also if we touch
on this zone it shows a dialogue with the "List of Changes" of the different versions.
We also have information on the status and percentage of the battery, this information is the most reliable
and may differ from the battery percentage indicated by the system, because it is based on the voltage and
temperature of the battery.
To exit the application from the Main Menu screen, by pressing the Menu Button, it shows the "Exit"
option.
5.1 Flight Modes
Through these buttons we will initiate the different flight modalities, we have XC Flight, Routes and
Competition. The characteristics of each modalities are described in section 7.

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5.2 Flight Book
In the flight book we will find a list of the flights we have made, ordered by date, and indicating the type of
flight we have made (flight mode), also shows us several options:
5.2.1 ADD/MERGE Track
With the Add Track option we can select an IGC file and add it to our flight book, choosing the modality in
which it was made, as well as if we have a task or route stored for that flight.
Merge Tracks, in some cases the recording of a flight can be interrupted momentarily due to a bug, in these
cases the recording will be stored in two separate track files, through this option we can merge them.
5.2.2 Import
It allows us to recover a flight book file previously exported (Backup), when clicking on this option it will
show us a dialog to select the file.
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5.2.3 Export
Clicking on this option will start the export of the flight book, it will be stored in the folder
"SeRiFLY\FLYBOOK" with the extension ".ser". It is interesting to export our flight book periodically, as a
Backup copy. Once exported we can also copy these files to our PC for greater security.
5.2.4 Show Info/Track
It will open a new screen in which we will be able to see the information of the flight, as well as its Track. It
will also allow us to send our IGC flight file directly to a Leonardo server, XContest or send by... (Gmail,
Drive...)
5.2.5 IGC Play
It allows us to directly reproduce the flight, in the same modality in which it was recorded. When the IGC is
played we can press the physical "Menu" button and select IGC Play. This allows us to see 2 options:
1. Play Speed, we can accelerate from 1X up to 25X times the normal speed.
2. Foward // Rewind, It allows us to advance or go back the reproduction of the flight, the left
being the beginning of the flight and the right the end of the flight.
5.2.6 Delete
It will show us a dialog to confirm if we want to eliminate the flight from our flight book. When accepting,
the data will be deleted from the flight book, but the IGC file will continue to remain in the "Tracks" folder.

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5.3 GNSS STATUS
It will show us a screen to visualize the GNSS status, as well as satellites seen, in use, etc. The information of
the Pressure and Humidity sensors will also be shown.
5.3.1 Status Bar
It shows information and icons related to the status of sensors, battery charge, numbers of satellites in use,
etc.
5.3.2 GNSS Fix Status
The current state can be No Fix (without positioning), 2D Fix (Positioned without altitudes), 3D Fix
(Positioned with altitudes).
5.3.3 In View
It is the total number of satellites that the GNSS module is scanning or using.
5.3.4 In Used
It is the number of satellites currently used to obtain the positioning.
5.3.5 Accuracy
It indicates the current accuracy of our position, the value H is the Horizontal precision and the value V is
the Vertical precision, both expressed in meters.
5.3.6 Satellites
They are separated into two blocks, GPS satellite network (USA) and satellite network GLONASS (Russian) &
GALIELO (European). It will show us information of each satellite, in the lower part we see its identifier, G
for GPS, R for GLONASS, and E for GALIELO, in the upper part it indicates the SNR of each satellite (Signal
strength).
Next we indicate the meaning of the SNR values:
Less than 22: it is a low signal and this satellite will hardly be used for positioning.
22 a 29: is an acceptable signal, and will be used for positioning.
30 a 35: it is a good signal, and will be used for positioning.
36 o más: it is an excellent signal, and will be used for positioning.
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