Navigation; Get Ready To Navigate; After Your Ight - Flytec Element Handbuch

fter your ight
Your Element will automatically detect your landing and then save the data
from your ight. It will switch itself o about 5 minutes after you landed.
Alternatively, you can switch o your Element immediately after landing by pressing
. Keep it switched on by instead pressing
You can also switch o your Element at any time. Note that this will stop recording if
you are in ight.
Press and hold the On/O key
Con rm «O ?» by pressing
acks
Your Element saves ight data as IGC track les, so uploading is fast and
easy. All online contest sites (such as OLC and XContest) use the IGC format.
Your Element works as a USB mass storage device, so when you connect it to your
computer it will appear as an external hard drive. Your track les are stored in a folder
named «tracks».
Make sure your Element is switched o .
Connect the device to your computer with the included USB cable.
Open the icon labelled «Element» on your computer.
Open the folder named «tracks».
Drag-and-drop the IGC track le to your desktop.
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2.1 Get ready to navigate

For an example ight, imagine you want to y over these locations:
Take-o : Niederhorn 1926m
Midpoint: HouseThermal 1460m
Landing: Interlaken 560m
Here is how to store these locations in your Element as waypoints.
Press and hold , then use the arrow keys
«>Waypoints». Press .
Select «Edit». Press .
Press to create a new waypoint.
Spell out «Niederhorn» using the arrow keys
to move back and forth. Use
characters. Holding down
on to the next page.
Select «N» and enter «46° 42.686'» for the latitude. Press
Select «E» and enter «07° 46.681'» for the longitude. Press
Enter «1926» for the Niederhorn waypoint altitude. Press
The waypoint named Niederhorn is now saved. Repeat this procedure to enter
the waypoints for HouseThermal and Interlaken.
Press to return to the Main Setup Menu.
N 46° 42.686' E 7° 46.681'
N 46° 42.983' E 7° 52.767'
N 46° 41.170' E 7° 51.517'
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to select the letters and
to toggle capital letters and special
will also delete a character. Press
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