stevengrasley
I love flying!
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2012
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I upgraded to V12.0 about a week ago. A pop up biz trip had me flying for the first time with the new software in a solid IMC day before I had flown it at all. (Yeah...I know...I know...) BTW, lots of weather, pretty cold but above freezing, smooth ride pretty much.
Anyway, around the 2 hour mark I got a traffic alert and it turned out it was alerting myself. I saw this problem way back when I first built my RV-7A during my initial 40 hours when I was not running my transponder because it had not yet been checked for operation. But in this case I was on IFR flight plan and had no questions from ATC so everything seemed to be working just fine. So I just ignored the traffic alert for the rest of the flight. Landed after 3.6 hours for fuel.
Took off again in much less difficult weather for another 1 hour leg and still had the traffic alert. What I found odd was that the yellow traffic alert ball would sail past on the PFD sort of like it was circling me...it would go in one direction and then I could see it in the other direction too. No discernible pattern.
After about 15 minutes the yellow alert ball on the map display went away, the lower right hand corner of the map indicated TIS OK for quite a while then it switched to ADSB OK. The rest of the flight went normal and all traffic displayed quite nicely as I approached into KCLT.
Not sure if there is a problem or not.
BTW...early in the hard IMC flight I got a brief MESSAGE. All I heard was the pretty voice "MESSAGE" and then i pressed the button and I think I saw ADSB OFFLINE which seemed odd. The message remained for maybe a minute. During that minute and during the rest of the flight I could see ADSB radar that was getting regular updates, other traffic and every target with N-number output was displayed. All seemed pretty normal.
So...is there a problem? What the heck might it be?
Anyway, around the 2 hour mark I got a traffic alert and it turned out it was alerting myself. I saw this problem way back when I first built my RV-7A during my initial 40 hours when I was not running my transponder because it had not yet been checked for operation. But in this case I was on IFR flight plan and had no questions from ATC so everything seemed to be working just fine. So I just ignored the traffic alert for the rest of the flight. Landed after 3.6 hours for fuel.
Took off again in much less difficult weather for another 1 hour leg and still had the traffic alert. What I found odd was that the yellow traffic alert ball would sail past on the PFD sort of like it was circling me...it would go in one direction and then I could see it in the other direction too. No discernible pattern.
After about 15 minutes the yellow alert ball on the map display went away, the lower right hand corner of the map indicated TIS OK for quite a while then it switched to ADSB OK. The rest of the flight went normal and all traffic displayed quite nicely as I approached into KCLT.
Not sure if there is a problem or not.
BTW...early in the hard IMC flight I got a brief MESSAGE. All I heard was the pretty voice "MESSAGE" and then i pressed the button and I think I saw ADSB OFFLINE which seemed odd. The message remained for maybe a minute. During that minute and during the rest of the flight I could see ADSB radar that was getting regular updates, other traffic and every target with N-number output was displayed. All seemed pretty normal.
So...is there a problem? What the heck might it be?