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Suppress traffic warnings below a certain height


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nmcgovern
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Hi folks,

Having now added a PA system to the aircraft, I'm seeing some great results with SkyDemon producing aural alerts for traffic. The one main issue I have is when joining the circuit, it just won't shut up. Today, I also had it warning about traffic at the hold when I took off. This can be very distracting and has had me shouting at SD to shut up, followed by trying to yank out the audio cable.

Would there be a way of adding a filter so that (say), it doesn't display any traffic warnings below a set value? I'd probably set mine at 1500ft AGL for example.

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The next release of SkyDemon does now ignore aircraft that we think are on the ground, while you are flying. There are two ways in which we judge an aircraft to be on the ground:

1. Its ADS-B packet tells us that it is on the ground (we check this with its reported speed, too)
or
2. For protocols that are not ADS-B based, we need its speed to be below 10 knots AND its reported GPS altitude to be below terrain elevation plus 200 feet.

SkyDemon already omits to give traffic information updates when you are on the ground yourself.

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Tim Dawson - 10/20/2020 8:06:33 AM
The next release of SkyDemon does now ignore aircraft that we think are on the ground, while you are flying. There are two ways in which we judge an aircraft to be on the ground:

1. Its ADS-B packet tells us that it is on the ground (we check this with its reported speed, too)
or
2. For protocols that are not ADS-B based, we need its speed to be below 10 knots AND its reported GPS altitude to be below terrain elevation plus 200 feet.

SkyDemon already omits to give traffic information updates when you are on the ground yourself.

Thank you Tim, I look forward to testing it!

(Assuming I'm ever allowed to fly again by the Welsh government Sad )

Edited 10/20/2020 11:02:04 AM by grahamb
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Sir Tim - thanks!

Would be good for a “cherry on the top” to have

1) the ability to switch this on and off (to keep naysayers happy)

2) I still find it distracting on final approach as well.
Here I think they best option would be to prompt the user via a dialog to confirm if they’re joining for approach. This could serve several purposes
A) bring up approach charts, VFR geo-ref plates etc, show joining / circuit pattern. SD does this all today but sometimes you don’t want these features at the time they appear
B) use the same dialog to then adjust the traffic audio. There’s been some really good suggestions on algorithmically how to do this. Eg if you normally warn on traffic +\- 2000ft then reduce this whilst within 3nm of AD
GO

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nmcgovern - 8/30/2020 4:33:47 PM
grahamb - 8/30/2020 4:48:35 PM
PaulSS - 8/31/2020 5:25:54 PM
grahamb - 8/31/2020 6:08:12 PM
PaulSS - 9/2/2020 1:07:53 PM
Tim Dawson - 9/7/2020 9:54:07 AM
grahamb - 9/7/2020 11:24:00 AM
             I would love that option!
Fliegerpeer - 9/10/2020 2:14:17 PM
PaulSS - 9/7/2020 12:48:39 PM
PaulSS - 9/11/2020 1:57:48 PM
pilot-byom - 9/12/2020 9:29:12 AM
TimT - 10/4/2020 4:25:07 PM
Tim Dawson - 10/5/2020 8:36:45 AM
pilot-byom - 10/5/2020 10:09:08 AM
grahamb - 10/5/2020 11:30:37 AM
pauls - 10/8/2020 11:18:07 AM
pilot-byom - 10/8/2020 11:26:50 AM
pauls - 10/8/2020 11:35:45 AM
pauls - 10/9/2020 9:07:39 AM
                         Nah, I think this is the right thread.
TimT - 10/9/2020 9:15:46 AM
                             Thanks @TimT I meant @TimD :-)
pauls - 10/9/2020 9:23:13 AM
Tim Dawson - 10/9/2020 9:23:59 AM
pauls - 10/9/2020 9:39:29 AM
TimT - 10/9/2020 9:44:43 AM
grahamb - 10/9/2020 10:43:33 AM
pauls - 10/9/2020 10:50:19 AM
Tim Dawson - 10/9/2020 1:40:35 PM
pauls - 10/9/2020 3:17:22 PM
grahamb - 10/9/2020 3:45:59 PM
pauls - 10/9/2020 4:12:34 PM
PaulSS - 10/11/2020 5:27:22 PM
Tim Dawson - 10/12/2020 8:23:24 AM
PaulSS - 10/14/2020 5:10:19 PM
marioair - 10/16/2020 4:01:11 PM
TimT - 10/16/2020 4:20:13 PM
pauls - 10/16/2020 4:56:36 PM
pilot-byom - 10/17/2020 12:27:30 PM
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