
The FLY TO page gives the same information as the
GRAPHIC page but in alphanumeric format and with greater
resolution. The name of the turnpoint you are flying towards is
shown. The final leg is warned by a FIN LEG appearing next to
the wind component information. Most of the time the
GRAPHIC page will be sufficient to make decisions and get a
snapshot of the navigational and final glide situation to without
spending excessive time looking in the cockpit.
The FLY TO page also shows the results of the last three drift
wind calculations with the GPS altitude at which the calculation
was finished. In a thermal, you can by momentarily switching
from climb to cruise on the B50, stop and restart a wind
calculation. You can then see wind vs altitude history on this
page. The Sn and Sl numbers in the bottom left are the glide
slope altitude to the Next and Last turnpoints respectively.
The GRAPHIC page is the heart of the B2000, displaying the name of current turnpoint and
distance to go in the top left corner, the vector wind (direction and speed) in the top right and
altitude above or below glideslope for the finish line in the lower right, no matter how many
turnpoints still remain to go around. Immediately above the altitude slope is the number of minutes
'in hand', calculated from the estimated finish time and the time to run on the STATISTICS page.
Useful to decide when to switch to the next leg on an AAT type task. There is a number with an R
or L under the distance to next turnpoint which is the cross track error. If pair flying this makes it
easy to report your position relative to the track line and next turnpoint to your colleague. The large
arrow points to the next turnpoint, the arrow with the feather is the current wind direction and the
short line is the wind shear direction (difference between last two wind calculations). The two short
horizontal lines ( one solid, one broken) to the right of the glider symbol in the centre of the screen
represent the glideslope to the next turnpoint and the finish. When they move below the symbol
you are above glideslope. The vertical scale is set in the PC SETUP procedure.
In CRUISE mode:
To the right side of the screen are three pointers.
The left one is the realtime wind component as measured from
the difference between groundspeed (as measured by the GPS)
and True Air Speed in the direction you are tracking(that is, the
wind component you are actually experiencing in the direction
you are going), the rightmost, rectangular bar type, is the wind
component in the direction of the next turnpoint or finish line
being used by the B2000 in its glide calculation. This can be
manually set by pressing the CURSOR then CHANGE VALUE
button and changing the hw/tw number. The pointer moves as
well. The value is set automatically by the B2000 from the last
vector wind calculation unless you change it and toggles using
the CURSOR button between automatic and pilot set value.
The remaining rightmost pointer, a triangular type, is the wind
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