Recording flight data on laptop

[George(Guest)]

Could you Dynon Guys PLEASE :'(   write a little utility program that can record data.

It would reduce data to average values over a short period of time. The current 64 data points per second it too much data. It would be nice to have an average data point, time period user selectable, say anywhere between 1 to 30 seconds.

Next on my wish list, this little utility would also do a simple plot of data. Not critical but a real nice thing to have. I know a lot of other folks would love to have this Flight Data recorder ability.

I have been able to record the ASCII data stream from my Dynon EFIS-D10, but there is too much data at the  64 hits/seconds rate. I am recording this with the windows standard HyperTerminal; Than I cut and pasting the data to an excel spreadsheet and plot it.

This would really help collect data during flight test. An alternative would be a user selectable feature to slow the rate data is going out for "flight data recorder mode."

Thanks George    

 

[dynonsupport]

George,
We don't have any plans to change the speed of our data format. This data is used for displaying an EFIS on an EMS, and we can't slow it down for that reason, and adding options to the software causes a support problem, as well as being technically difficult since the microcontrollers generate this data in real time. We just haven't had enough interest in data logging to make it worth our while to write PC software.

While the data is coming out pretty quick, it's only about 14MB per hour. Finding or writing a program to cut this data down shouldn't be difficult at all.

It is possible to write a macro for Excel that will open and import every X line into Execl. Check out this Microsoft article that could help you get started:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/120596/EN-US/