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Topic: Traffic Sensor Error
Posted By: Psellati
Subject: Traffic Sensor Error
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 1:23pm
I just had Sarsota Avionics installed a 540 and I've been getting a traffic sensor error frequently and I've mentioned this to my avionics shop and they tell me it is a software problem. I asked them to verify this with Avidyne but it falls on deaf ears. Have you seen this and if so what is the cause?



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Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 1:49pm
What type of traffic sensor do you have?

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com


Posted By: Psellati
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 1:55pm
MLB100 attached to a AXP 340.
The MLB100 has the latest version of firmware and the 540 is running 10.1.1.0


Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 2:01pm
Yes, that is real and we're still chasing it down. We see it every 124 seconds in our test airplane. Not many people are seeing it but a few are. The problem appears to be with the MLB100 at this point in the investigation. I stress that it's still early in the investigation and very active and definitely not falling on deaf ears within engineering.

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com


Posted By: Psellati
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2016 at 2:10pm
Understood, thx for the information!


Posted By: Bad1996
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 1:18am
Two of us in north Georgia with 540's and NGT9000's get the error message too. All products installed by an Avidyne and L3 dealer.


Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 8:40am
Originally posted by Bad1996 Bad1996 wrote:

Two of us in north Georgia with 540's and NGT9000's get the error message too. All products installed by an Avidyne and L3 dealer.

I don't think that is the same thing.  We have no experience (or claims on) the interface with the NGT9000.    

The MLB100 intermittent traffic sensor fault message is real.  It lasts 1-5 seconds, automatically clears and can happen a handful of times across a few hours of use.  We're working on trapping the cause of that issue and will squash it.


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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com


Posted By: Bad1996
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2016 at 9:20pm
Well the message is real and it seems to clear fairly quick. Looks the same, tastes the same then it....never mind :-)
I only have one short flight with the Lynx, very bumpy and waiting on an autopilot part so I was hand flying and didn't get a lot of detail. It does sound exactly the same though.
anyhow, I hope it's a 540 issue and not the MLB and that the fix takes care of my issue too.
The AVIDYNE dealer did say it would display the basic traffic info.


Posted By: sikhpilotmd
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 7:34am
Is it "datalink error "?
If so, I get that all the time with AXP 340-MLB100-IFD 540 combos


Posted By: AviJake
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 7:39am
No it's not. We would need your datalogs to see what you are experiencing.

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Steve Jacobson
sjacobson@avidyne.com



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