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New Features for All Products

October 27, 2006

 

After much hard work by the programmers and beta testers, Dynon is proud to release new firmware for all of our currently shipping products, including the EFIS-D100, EFIS-D10A, EMS-D120, EMS-D10, and FlightDEK-D180. With this free, in-field firmware update, Dynon continues to enhance our products' functionality while maintaining the stability and ease of use that you have come to expect from us.

Major Features

Here's what we've added in this release:

HSI with Glide Slope from SL30 Radio

An HSI overlay on the DG screen. If you have an SL30 radio, you can hook the serial output of that to your Dynon EFIS product and display the CDI, Glide Slope, VOR frequency and VOR ID as an EHSI display. This display will even show you bearing pointers to your active and standby VOR frequencies.

HSI with CDI from GPS

Another way to get an HSI display is by hooking up a GPS to your EFIS. This will allow the EFIS to display a CDI needle on the DG display for a virtual HSI. The screen will also show information from the GPS such as ground track, and distance to waypoint.

Winds Aloft with Cross Wind Info

With a GPS connection, the HSI screen will also show you real-time winds, including a relative wind arrow and an absolute display of wind direction and velocity. We also display the crosswind component of the wind vector so you can glance at an EFIS on final and see if you're comfortable with the crosswind.

Fuel at Waypoint, MPG, Range Data

On the EMS side of things, the GPS connection also gives us some exciting data. EMS products' fuel computer page will now show you fuel economy (MPG in English units), how much fuel you will have onboard when you reach your waypoint, and will constantly tell you what the ground range of your aircraft is in the current configuration. These tools should make efficient cross country flying much easier. If you need to get as far as possible, just pull back the power and lean out until the economy number peaks out.

Aircraft Trim & Flap Indication

You can now configure info items on EMS products to display trim and/or flap indicators by hooking up to the GP inputs.

Shock Cooling & Span Alarms

Alarms on EMS products can be configured to warn you if your CHTs are cooling too fast or your CHTs or EGTs have too much span between cylinders.

Installing

Some of these features require additional connections to your Dynon EFIS or EMS. Please see our updated installation guides for information on how to hook these products to your Dynon equipment, and please feel free to post on our forum with any questions.

This update also includes updated install guides and user manuals to reflect the large set of new features. We didn't get our manuals updated for the last software release, so if you were putting off doing the update until we had manuals, now you can have all the great features and the documentation to go with it.

If you didn't do the previous update, please read this page first, as it includes some information about button behavior changes that are also present in this software.

With all of that out of the way, to download the latest firmware for all of our products, please download the Dynon Product Support program below:

Download Dynon Product Support 2.4.16

This file includes updates for all of our products in one file and makes updating your Dynon products quick and easy.

PLEASE DO A BACKUP FIRST. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO BACK TO AN OLDER VERSION OF THE FIRMWARE IF YOU WISH TO DO SO.

If you have an EDC-D10A connected to your EFIS product, you MUST HAVE IT CONNECTED while performing this upgrade. This is important to proper post-upgrade operation. You must have the EDC connected to your D100 or D180 or the software will not let you proceed.

There's more to this firmware than just the HSI. Here's a list of the major features we've added to this firmware release:

  • Sync to GPS time on all products
  • Expanded AoA alarm options
  • N,E,S,W displays on the heading tape
  • Independent L/R tach pulse-per-rev settings on the EMS
  • Support a band of yellow on the EMS tach for restricted speeds
  • Tach and MAP displays can be swapped