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AG-NAV Training

AG-NAV Training. TraxNav System AG-NAV Inc. 21-1228 Gorham Street Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 8Z1, Canada Phone: 800-99-agnav 905-967-0909 Fax: 905-967-0808 Web: www.agnav.com.

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AG-NAV Training

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  1. AG-NAV Training TraxNav System AG-NAV Inc. 21-1228 Gorham Street Newmarket, Ontario, L3Y 8Z1, Canada Phone: 800-99-agnav 905-967-0909 Fax: 905-967-0808 Web: www.agnav.com

  2. Operating System:Menu DrivenTraxNav uses menus to guide the user to operate the system step by step. TraxNav Training

  3. Main Menu When you turn on TraxNav, the Main menu is shown. It allows access to all the functions of TraxNav. The red box cursor indicates which item is selected. “Navigate” is the default selected menu item. To select an item in the menu, press key or to move the red box cursor to the item. Then press . 3 TraxNav Training

  4. System Menu • There are more menus to provide you necessary utilities to operate TraxNav. These can be found in the System menu. • The System menu is located at the top of screen. This menu contains 2 items: “File” and “Help”. • To access the System menu from the Main menu, press . • To select an item, use keys and . The color of the selected item should change to white. • Then press . 4 TraxNav Training

  5. System Menu - Controls • When “File” or “Help” is selected, it opens a drop down menu. • To select an item in the drop down menu, use key or • to move the highlight bar to the desired item. • Then press . • To close the “File” or “Help” drop down menu, press key to return to the System Menu. 5 TraxNav Training

  6. System Menu - File • The “File” Menu contains: File Manager Navigate Configure GPS Test Training, and OS Prompt • As you can see, this menu is similar to the Main Menu so you can use either one. Actually the Main Menu is designed for your convenience. 6 TraxNav Training

  7. System Menu - Help • The “Help” Menu contains: About Update Restore Settings and Language • Each item will be explained later in this tutorial. 7 TraxNav Training

  8. Navigate Navigate is the core module or program of the TraxNav system. It contains tools that allow you to set up system parameters and provides accurate guidance for pilot to fly preplanned lines on a treated area. TraxNav Training

  9. Launch Navigate Module In the Main Menu, use key or to move the red box cursor to “Navigate”. Note to learn Navigate in this tutorial, you should select “Training”. Press . 9 TraxNav Training

  10. All functions in Training are the same as the functions in real time Navigate. You can use the keys on the keypad or keys on keyboard: KeypadKeyboard <F1> <F2> <F3> <F4> <Esc> <Enter> Training TraxNav Training

  11. When simulating a flight, the GPS position or aircraft icon can be controlled by the arrow keys on keyboard: Up: Speed up Down: Speed down Left: Turn left Right: Turn right The “s” key on keyboard is used as a trigger switch to drop a bait. The real trigger switch can be used as well. To drop a bait, press the “s” key twice. Training TraxNav Training

  12. Navigate Module • When the Navigate module is running, it presents 4 items shown at the top of screen: • Application • Edit • Settings • Help • Each item when selected will display a drop down menu. The selected item is highlighted in white. • To select an item, press key • or to select it and press . 12 TraxNav Training

  13. Application Menu • The Application Menu includes: • Pilot Information • Default Parameters • Background Map • New Area • Old Area • XWayPoints, and • Exit • To select an item, use key or to move the highlight bar to the desired item. • Then press . 13 TraxNav Training

  14. Application Menu • To close the drop down menu, press key . • To exit the Application Menu and return to the Main Menu, select “Exit”. 14 TraxNav Training

  15. Application: Pilot Information Before working on an area, it would be good to tell TraxNav about the Operator and Aircraft. This information is called Pilot Information. TraxNav Training

  16. Application – Pilot Information • Note that it’s not necessary to have the correct Pilot Information for TraxNav to operate properly. If you do not enter or change the Pilot Information, default general information is used. • To check and edit Pilot Information, press key or to move the highlight bar to the “Pilot Information” item. • Then press . 16 TraxNav Training

  17. Application – Pilot Information • The Pilot Information editor opens. • To edit any information, press key • or to move the red box cursor to the desired edit box. • Press to open a virtual keyboard. 17 TraxNav Training

  18. Application – Pilot Information • When all information is correct, press to move the red box to the “OK” button to accept changes, or “Cancel” button to cancel changes. • Then press . • If you select OK, the Pilot Information will be saved for future use. This information is tagged to each flight data file for data processing. 18 TraxNav Training

  19. Application: Default Parameters When you fly an area, TraxNav needs to know how to generate grid lines and target points, how to trigger a bait drop. These data are defined in the Default Parameters or area files. If any parameter is not defined in area files, the default value will be used. You should check Default Parameters before making the first flight. TraxNav Training 19

  20. Application – Default Parameters • To edit Default Parameters: • Move the highlight bar to “Default Parameters”. • Press . 20 TraxNav Training

  21. Application – Default Parameters • In the editor of Default Parameters, to edit a parameter, use keys and to move the red box cursor to the parameter to be edited. • The description and range of value of the selected parameter is shown. • Use keys and to change the value of parameter. • Press to accept the value and move the red box to the next parameter. TraxNav Training

  22. Application – Default Parameters • When finish all editing, press to move the red box to “OK”. • Press to save the changes. • Or press to cancel all changes. TraxNav Training

  23. Application – Default Parameters • The Default Parameters include: • Unit: Metric or U.S. measurement system. • Swath Width: Spacing between grid lines. • Line Offset: Define first line offset. “Yes” means the first line will be half swath from area boundary. “No” means the first line will be on the area boundary. • Line Heading: Grid line heading. 23 TraxNav Training

  24. Application – Default Parameters • Target Spacing: Spacing between target points on a grid line. Note that target points are always generated on grid lines. • Target Offset: Minimum distance from target points to area boundary. Use this parameter to avoid target points too close to area boundary. • Target Radius: Radius of circle around a selected target point. This also defines the allowable drop zone around a target point. • Max XTrack: Sensitivity of XTrack bar on lightbar. This is used when you don’t set the lights on the lightbar manually. 24 TraxNav Training

  25. Application: Background Map TraxNav can read a map from a file and display it on screen as map background. TraxNav Training

  26. Application – Background Map • To select a map file: • Move the highlight bar to “Background Map”. • Press . 26 TraxNav Training

  27. Application – Open Map File • The “Load Background Map” window opens. • Use key or to select the file that has map background. • The map background can be in a shape file *.shp, project file *.prj or area file *.no1. 27 TraxNav Training

  28. Application – Background Map Press key to move the red box to the “No background map” option. If you have no background map or do not want to show background map during flight, use key to put a black dot into the square button. If you want to show map background and already selected the map file, the square button should be blank. 28 TraxNav Training

  29. Application – Background Map Press key to move the red box to the OK button. Press to continue with your background map selection. TraxNav will return to the Application Menu. 29 TraxNav Training

  30. Application: New Area For an urgent mission, if you don’t have a preplanned area, you can use TraxNav to make a new area for your mission. You can use this feature to map an area for future flights as well. TraxNav Training

  31. Application – New Area • To create a new area, select “Application”. • Then select “New Area”. • Note that to move the cursor to highlight an item in a menu, always use key or • then press to select the item. 31 TraxNav Training

  32. Application – New Area • Before you make a new area, TraxNav must know information about the flight and area. • Parameters like what type of unit measurement you want to use, swath width, triggering and more should be defined. • Take some time to check if the data on the “Application Parameters” page is correct. 32 TraxNav Training

  33. Application – New Area • If you need to edit any parameters, use key or to move the red box cursor to the desired parameter. • Use keys and to change the value. • Then press to accept and move the cursor to the next parameter. 33 TraxNav Training

  34. Application – New Area • The parameters used to define how a new area is generated are “Make area by” and “Option”. • The selections for these parameters will be described when we go to each method to make a new area. 34 TraxNav Training

  35. Application – New AreaAB LinesThe first and simplest method to generate a new area is to fly an AB line. TraxNav will make a rectangular area on the left or right of the AB line. The “Lines” and “Swath Width” parameters are used to calculate the width of the area. TraxNav Training

  36. Application – New Area : AB Line • Before making the AB line, you should check the following parameters: • “Lines”: Define how many lines will be created on the area. We just use 30 lines for training. You should always enter more than enough lines you may need for the treated area. • Select “Make area by” “AB Line” • If area is on the left of AB line, select “Left”. If area is on the right of AB line, select “Right”. • Finally select “OK” to continue. 36 TraxNav Training

  37. Application – New Area : AB Line • TraxNav enters the New Area mode. Now fly to the treated area. • TraxNav is waiting for you to enter point A. Note the “Pnt A” indicator at the top left corner of the screen. 37 TraxNav Training

  38. Application – New Area : AB Line • The controls are displayed at the bottom of the screen. This is called the Control Menu. Each key on the key pad is assigned a function above it. When you press a key, TraxNav will do the assigned function. • There are several different Control Menus depending on the flight mode. The key is used to switch between the Control Menus. • Convention: When we ask you to press a function key, for example <ZOOMIN+>, it is understood that we ask you to press the key on the keypad to do that function. As in the example, you should press key to do <ZOOMIN+>. 38 TraxNav Training

  39. Application – New Area : AB Line • Make sure that the function <NEXTPNT> is shown in the Control Menu. If it is not there, press until it appears. • Now when you get to point A on the area, press <NEXTPNT> to mark point A. • On the screen, point A is marked as a circle and the distance from point A to aircraft is shown at the top right corner of the screen. 39 TraxNav Training

  40. Application – New Area : AB Line • When you reach the end of area, press <NEXTPNT> to enter point B. • When point B is entered, TraxNav will generate the new area with target points, and enter the Grid mode. • The number of lines generated on the area is defined by the parameter “Lines” during Application Parameter setup. 40 TraxNav Training

  41. Application – New Area : AB Line • Navigation data is calculated based on the guide line represented by a red line extending from top to bottom of map window. This guide line is also called the locked line. • Note that “COR1” is a special waypoint which is used in the waypoint mode to guide you to fly to the area. • The area is ready for you to start your application. 41 TraxNav Training

  42. Application – New AreaMarkThis area generation method allows you to enter points or vertices to define an area. What you need to do is flying around the treated area and entering a point along the boundary of area. TraxNav Training

  43. Application – New Area : Mark • To use this method, select “Make area by” “Mark”. • Select “OK” and press to continue. 43 TraxNav Training

  44. Application – New Area : Mark • Now fly to the area and press <NEXTPNT> to mark the first point of area. 44 TraxNav Training

  45. Application – New Area : Mark • On the screen, a circle is plotted around each point of area. • Also the distance from the last point to aircraft is displayed at the top right corner of the screen. 45 TraxNav Training

  46. Application – New Area : Mark • Fly around the area. When you are at a corner of area, press the <NEXTPNT> key to mark the area boundary. • The distance shown on screen is the distance from the last entered point to the aircraft. 46 TraxNav Training

  47. Application – New Area : Mark • When the boundary of area is complete, press the <ENDAREA> key to finish area generation. • Note that you don’t have to close the area, i.e. the first and last points are not necessarily the same. 47 TraxNav Training

  48. Application – New Area : Mark • After completing the area generation, the area is shown with grid lines and target points. • As default, the line heading will be the heading from point 1 to point 2 (AB line) of area. You can change the line heading by selecting <NEWGRID> and create a new AB line. • TraxNav enters the Grid mode and provides you with guidance to fly the area starting from line 1. 48 TraxNav Training

  49. Application – New Area: Guidance • All guidance and navigation information are calculated based on the guide line or locked line. • The locked line is plotted red, extending from top to bottom of screen. • There are 2 bars at the top of the screen. The first (upper) bar normally indicates the Cross Track (XTrack) error. • The second (lower) bar can show XTrack error or Angle of Intercept (AOI). 49 TraxNav Training

  50. Application – New Area : Trigger Drops • Let’s start the mission with line 1. • Follow the guidance to keep the aircraft on the locked line. • At any time, the target point or drop point is marked with a circle. • The radius of circle is defined by the Trigger Radius in the Area Parameters. 50 TraxNav Training

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