Setting the DATE in FlightDEK 180

[dahugo]

Guys, my RV-9A has been up for about 100 Hobbs hours now, and the FlightDEK 180 is awesome. I have just now begun downloading the flight data which of course saves to an excel spreadsheet--which is not the easiest format to view.

I uploaded the data to www.savvyanalyst.com (great site!) and found that while my local and UTC time looked OK, the dates all defaulted to 1-1-2000. I believe the 180 gets the time from my Garmin 430W. I checked the Garmin and its date/time is correct. I cannot figure out how to set a "date" in the 180--which is otherwise unimportant except for this flight data logging thing which I have begun studying.

Any help?

 

[Dynon]

How are you connected to the 430W? If via serial only, you definitely won't get the date because the Aviation format have time/date at all. If you're connected over ARINC via the HS34, we think (based on a quick look at the code) that date should make it into the datalog, but there could be a small there. Can you post your CSV data?

 

[Dynon]

NMEA GPS inputs definitely carry time and date into the system, by the way.

 

[dahugo]

Dynon Support,

Thanks for your reply. I have attached a CSV data file per your request.

 

[Dynon]

So time is getting through, but date isn't ever being set. Do you have an HS34?

 

[dahugo]

Yes i have the hs34.

 

[dahugo]

Dynon support. Yes i have the hs34. Why is that important? Do i have something misprogrammed?

 

[Dynon]

You don't have anything mis-programmed. Just looking for system configuration to inform our technical gurus. Sorry for the delay in response - a bunch of us have been at Sun n Fun the last week. Looking into an answer to this.

 

[Dynon]

Unfortunately, it looks like date information isn't carried over an ARINC connection, so, that field will be blank as you're seeing.

 

[dahugo]

You're all fired.