Jimhusky Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 I just completed the upgrade of the Dynon SV-D1000 to Software Release 6.2. On the first try the unit returned a message ".DUC FILE NOT FOR THIS SYSTEM." After Dave Armando, Director of Maintenance, Flight Design, sent me one additional file, it took less than 45 minutes to complete the entire upgrade process. I will test fly my CTLSi using the new release this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Same experience I had in my 2010 CTLS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duane Jefts Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Only takes a few minutes to put 6.2 in. I noticed a number of changes in screen choices and the ability to access the menu on the ground and in flight. Lone Mountain must have loaded the 6.1 program directly from dynon and that is why it would not make the changes with Fight Design's 6.2. With the unlock program from Dave it worked fine. The Dynon instruction book and installation manual no longer apply in some areas due to Flight Design's changes. I'm trying to get used to the new screen layout choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Don't forget to update your POH (AOI). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC Bill Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 Curious, does the v6.2 from FD include the ability to SWAP views between screens? In other words PRESS a KEY and what appears on the pilot's screen switches to the right side screen and visa versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Technically an owner can not change the POH. FD should send out letters and changes to the affected owners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 It is a part of the SI, and provided by FD. It is not a change but an addition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted March 7, 2014 Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 Yes, the one button screen swap as well as screen rearrangement are a part of the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Ok, so I install the new software and for some reason I get a red X on my oil pressure indicator. A call to FD USA and Dave Armando give me some things to check to verify it is not the sender - it isn't. I don't hear back for a while. When I do hear back I find out there is only one person that can help in Germany and his wife just had a baby. He won't be back until Apr. 1st. OK, a good excuse. (Although I don't understand why only one person can handle this.) So, April 1 comes and goes and I don't hear anything. April 2nd I send Dave an e-mail, no answer. Today I call and am told Dave is at Sun and Fun and won't be back until Monday - maybe. In the meantime my plane is not airworthy. Customer Service?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Doug, It is just crap luck back to back. No matter how you cut it, when dealing with a small company, they will have limited resources. I am betting the red X is a bad sensor definition. I know skyview is a linux based system, and I have seen the sensor definition file syntax. Are you able to download the sensor definition file (sfg) from your skyview and post it here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Red xxx's usually mean a bad connection. Check the wires for this, but pay special attention to the ground. You can double check the ground by adding a temporary one with alligator clips just to test it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 It didn't happen for doug until he upgraded. That would point more towards a bad sensor definition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Did you try to revert the software to 6.1 and see if the X goes away? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 FD Germany finally sent the file. I won't be able to use it until tomorrow. Dave was still on it, just a slow response from Europe. Roger, Dave had me jumper from the fuel pressure sender wires (disconnected) and it didn't change anything except, of course adding a red X to the fuel pressure sender for the time it was disconnected. (On the positive side, I now know what is in the the fat fire sleeves at the bottom of the firewall.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted April 4, 2014 Report Share Posted April 4, 2014 Doug: what is the file? Are you allowed to share it with me so I can see what's in it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Turned out that the original 6.2 file was ok except that it changed the oil pressure sender to a Motorola when it was a different brand. (I did not change it, and nothing in the log book notes it, so I think whatever it is it is original.) In a conference call with Steve from Dynon and Dave from FDUSA it took a bit too get there, but a change in the definitions and all is back to normal. I thank them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted April 9, 2014 Report Share Posted April 9, 2014 Maybe FD should hire me to work on Skyview software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug G. Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 It must have been an odd situation or they would have known how to deal with it. Dynon had a slight issue dealing with the locking FD uses. Other than that it was bad timing with Germany and Sun-n-Fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 It was likely a fluke. The problem with FD's software controlling model is that they have to redo all of their work every time they go to move to a new software version base. Since Dynon regularly changes the parser and syntax for configuration files, among other things, FD Germany would have to reconfigure their modifications by hand. This means human error is introduced into the equation. Since I know that they had to send you a special package of the software to put your skyview back in line with the release cycle, and the issue didn't happen until you upgraded, that strongly suggested that it was a software configuration glitch; likely an honest mistake by the programmers at FD Germany. This is one of the big reasons why the linux distro Ubuntu pushes updates and modifications back to Debian, which is the distro that Ubuntu is based on. It means that there is less work involved when a new version is released, as many of the modifications will come built in, instead of having to redo them every time. Debian gets good patches for their software base as a plus, but the Dynon/FD relationship stops just short of this symbiosis, sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samifer Posted July 11, 2014 Report Share Posted July 11, 2014 Can anyone send a link to the 6.2 upgrade?? i can only seem to find the V10 Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samifer Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 I shall do that tomorrow ... but im not sure that they care to much about the canadians, nobody seems to know the rules up here .... lord knows i dont!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anticept Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 I shall do that tomorrow ... but im not sure that they care to much about the canadians, nobody seems to know the rules up here .... lord knows i dont!! They are closed on weekends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Baker Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 Can anyone send a link to the 6.2 upgrade?? i can only seem to find the V10 Thanx The upgrade to 6.2 comes from Flight Design, and not Dynon. That is why you couldn't find it on their site. Here is the link. http://www.flightdesign.com/index.php?page=dynon_cfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samifer Posted July 12, 2014 Report Share Posted July 12, 2014 Thanx Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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