Dynon Avionics SkyView Pilots Users Guide User Manual

Page 59

Advertising
background image

PFD Operation

SkyView Pilot’s User Guide - Revision S

4-21

Traffic is displayed as reported by the device sending it to SkyView. The precision
and accuracy of the location of traffic targets may vary from device to device, and
this may impact how accurately the position is represented on the SkyView display.
For example: TIS traffic updates, such as those received by the SV-XPNDR-26X, may
be anywhere from 2-12 seconds old due to radar latency and other technical
factors. Be sure to understand the traffic-detection capabilities of your traffic
device thoroughly so you understand how to best interpret the position of the
traffic displayed on SkyView.

Traffic targets are displayed using the same symbols that are used on the Map Page display of
traffic. See the traffic section in the SV-MAP-270 Navigation Mapping Software section for
complete descriptions of the types of targets that may be shown. Unlike the Map Page display,
however, relative altitude is not provided numerically on Synthetic Vision. Instead, relative
altitude is depicted by having the traffic symbols appear either above or below the zero pitch
line, just like they would be if you were looking at traffic out the window. For example, in the
figure above, all of the traffic targets being displayed are above our current altitude. Similarly,
traffic targets that are shown to the left or right of the center of the attitude indicator are not
directly ahead of you.

Traffic displayed on the PFD page can be configured to include just Traffic
Advisories (TA), all targets, or no targets. See the SkyView System Installation Guide
for information on how to configure how traffic is displayed.

Note that traffic is not visually scaled for distance. In other words, targets always appear the
same size on the Synthetic Vision depiction, no matter how far away they are. However, yellow
Traffic Advisory Targets (threats) are displayed larger than the diamond shaped Proximity
Advisory Targets and Non-Threat Targets to accentuate their increased importance.

Figure 46 - Traffic Advisory on

Synthetic Vision

Figure 47 - Proximity Advisory on

Synthetic Vision

Figure 48 - Non Threat on Synthetic

Vision

Additionally, yellow Traffic Advisory targets contain a number within them that represents how
far away they are (in miles, nautical miles, or kilometers, depending on your system setup) from
your aircraft. The yellow Traffic Advisory target in Figure 49, for example, is 3 miles away, to the
left, above, and descending.

Figure 49 - Traffic Alert

Advertising