skyBlip Go

Everything a skyBlip Go does.

One line each, grouped by the page that explains it. Every name opens the paragraph behind it.

Radar and traffic

Heading up
You in the middle, nose up, and the sky turning around you: traffic to the upper right is off the right of the nose.
Rings of 1, 2, 4 or 8 NM
Or 2, 4, 8 and 16 km, picked in the unit it is read in.
A minute of track
A line from each aircraft to where it will be in a minute, and your own two minutes ahead.
Every aircraft, however far
PLOT ALL stands traffic past the ring on a band around it, on its bearing.
Every aircraft counted
The figure in the corner is everything heard, placed or not.
Traffic advisory
Inside 3 km and 300 m, a quarter of the glass flashes towards the traffic, with sound, vibration and lamp.
Five shapes
Above, level or below, near or far in altitude, climbing or sinking, read without a legend.
Nearby, nearest first
Callsign or address, ground distance and relative altitude, one row per aircraft.

Instruments

Six-pack
Ground speed, horizon, altimeter, turn and slip, track and vertical speed off the GNSS.
Battery on the glass
The state of charge over the middle dial.
G-meter
Normal, lateral and fore-and-aft load, with this flight's peaks.

Controls and menus

Two contacts
The pad walks the pages, the button acts, and nothing needs timing.
Settings on the device
Type, callsign, units, range, plot, alarm and volume, without a phone.
Callsign field
A registration typed with two contacts, and cleared with one press.
Diagnostics by name
Status, satellites, radio log, raw counters, capture and self test.

Power and battery

Says what it waits for
No fix, and how far the receiver has got.
Off is the wordmark
E-paper holds it with no power, and a blank glass is kept for storage.
A flat cell says so
The cutoff writes FLAT BATTERY before the rails drop.
A day on one cell
A shutdown in order, and a radio that speaks once every ten seconds on the ground.
A gauge that holds still
Two curves, charging or not, and never moved by a transmit burst.

Phone and firmware

By name, no pairing
FLARM NMEA to three apps at once, over the profiles they look for.
Asked on the glass
Two presses allow, one refuses, and silence is a refusal.
Firmware from a web page
A signed image over Bluetooth, and a device that goes back when the new one does not take.
Why no pairing
The boundary is the signed image and the thumb on the device, not the link.

The radio second

Four dwells a second
Aligned on GPS to the microsecond, both 868 channels and the ground uplink.
Two systems in one dwell
ADS-L and FLARM-generation frames told apart after one sync.
A burst nobody moves
About 5 ms, at an instant drawn from the address and the second.

Every screen

The radar, both ways
The same skies with PLOT ALL and PLOT TO SCALE, one toggle apart.
Every screen
Every page, menu and prompt, as the firmware draws it.
Why the screen behaves
Partial refresh, a black wipe per page, and the full waveform twice a session.

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