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The strobes are on my fuselage. There's no way to tape them without severely impacting their visibility.

I did, but the issue always occurs regardless of settings. As you should know, the display is hard-coded to never reduce brightness below a certain minimum relative to ambient light to prevent it from being too dim to be readable. The problem is that the ambient light sensor is reading...

I do use an external knob but at the lowest setting the screen just uses the minimum brightness it thinks is allowable for the ambient light. The problem goes away if I increase the brightness with the knob but then it's way too bright.

I notice when flying at night, with the screen at a dim setting, that it constantly changes brightness 1-2 times per second. It's really distracting. I am open-cockpit and I believe it is getting confused by my strobes, but whatever the cause is, I'd like a solution. There is no situation where...

Traffic that is not squawking altitude do not show up at all and I've seen that even in my local area which is within a Mode C veil. I would guess that's the biggest source of invisible traffic.

I was responding to Steve's comment about our eyeballs being used to keep us safe from drones. They do not and cannot.

You will never see drones with your eyeballs; even other airplanes can be difficult to spot. ADS-B / TIS show me so much traffic that I cannot see even when i know where it is.

There are airspaces in the U.S. with AGL floors. The class E floor is typically 700' AGL near cities, protected wildlife reserves are obviously 2000' AGL floor and definitely should not be violated, and there are MOAs with AGL floors in some places too.

The point is to maintain legal clearance over ground. For airplanes and gyroplanes that is usually 1000+ feet AGL in congested areas and 500 feet in rural areas, to oversimplify a bit. It's not about hitting obstacles but about not being high enough over them to be legal. I would love an AGL...

Thanks Murray, I will try that.

I agree, I would love for them to fix it so it works like in your first picture, and honestly I think this might be a bug and not intentional. The white line is still needed with the smaller size but in addition the colored background should not go above it.

It turns out I had to turn off "fuel fill auto-detect" (or whatever it was called) in aircraft setup; it had nothing to do with fuel flow. Now the warning no longer appears.

I do not have fuel flow. I'll look through the setup menu.

I recently hooked up and calibrated my fuel level sensor to the SkyView system. Fuel level works correctly but every time I turn on the display I get the attached error. I just click Cancel and everything is fine. How can I prevent this error message?

Is your antenna loose? Mine was; I had to replace it. On the outside of your aircraft, gently tug on the ADS-B in antenna and see if it slides around. It should be solid but mine just slid out.

Is it possible it's a loose connector or a loose pin? Try "installing" the unit all over again and see if it helps.

I actually did not know that about the arrow length. Makes sense. I agree with your suggestion then, a little same-colored (orange) pip moving along the arrow at the aircraft's expected current position makes sense.

Perhaps you can keep the icons at the last reported position but project the directional arrows outward so the arrow tip represents the aircraft's estimated current position? That way the reported position is clearly differentiated from its estimated position.

That would be very bad because it would be guessing. It displays the directional vectors of the traffic which are what you use to help avoid traffic, but it should never guess current position because that would be misleading.

Airports generally have a compass rose on the ground somewhere so that makes it easy. And what Dynon was describing is the fact that runway numbers are only rounded to the nearest 10 degrees; the runway isn't necessarily exactly at that heading.