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NAVIA

NAVIA system architecture: how the pieces fit together

Hub, Core, Sense, Displays, Traffic, UPS, EMU and Grip — what each unit does, how power and data flow over one cable per device, and how to plan a system before ordering.

Navia OS in your browser: the online demo

The free online NAVIA at glider.flynavia.com: what it is, what Guest and signing in with your LX Cloud account each give you, how tasks and layouts built on the ground reach the aircraft, and what a browser cannot show you.

NAVIA: commissioning a new aircraft

The thirteen steps from wired hardware to a configured aircraft: registering the Core to your account, aircraft identity and configurations, the polar, flight envelope and flaps, weight and balance, and the checks before the first flight.

NAVIA accounts, roles, display profiles and your phone as a screen

Personal accounts that follow you to any NAVIA aircraft, the four roles and how ownership is established in LX Cloud, pilot in command, screen and login types, display profiles, and adding a phone or tablet as an extra screen.

NAVIA and LX Cloud: synchronisation, working offline, flight recording and the logbook

What belongs to you and what belongs to the aircraft, when synchronisation runs and why it never runs in flight, flying with no internet at all, and how a recorded flight reaches the logbook and the cloud.

Updating NAVIA: Core, ecosystem devices, databases and remote support

The update page and its three channels, reverting a version, why connected devices update themselves from the Core, keeping airspace and charts current, and the remote-support switch that stays off until you turn it on.

NAVIA troubleshooting: warnings, alarms and status-bar items

What each status-bar item reports, the full list of warnings and alarms with what triggers them, and a symptom-cause-fix table for the sixteen things most likely to puzzle you — several of which are not faults.

NAVIA EMU: installing CHT, EGT, RPM, fuel-flow and fuel-quantity sensors

The thermocouple rules that govern everything, where CHT and EGT probes go and where they must not, RTD and pressure senders, fuel quantity and flow, RPM pickups, and two worked engine examples.

NAVIA EMU in use: master warning and caution, the fuel computer, calibration and the engine logbook

How the annunciators behave and what acknowledging one does, what a missing reading means in flight, the fuel computer and its limits, calibrating a tank point by point, and why the factory thresholds are not your engine limits.

NAVIA Sense: the IGC recorder, calibration and the compass swing

The integrated IGC recorder and its security seal, engine noise and when an external means-of-propulsion sensor is required, the Certificate of Calibration that replaced the barochart, and a compass that calibrates itself in flight.

NAVIA Traffic: FLARM/ADS-B setup, firmware modules and the range analyser

Two modules updated separately, why obstacle databases and licence files are tied to your serial number, configuring the unit from its portal, connecting it to a Core Pro, and reading the range analyser honestly.

Connectivity

Service & repairs

Device guides

Era: setup, wiring and first flight

What is in the box, how the Era is installed and wired, what to configure before the first flight, and the settings pilots most often get wrong.

iris EFIS: installation, configuration and calibration

Choosing the right iris, mounting it so the attitude is accurate, pitot and static, alignment, the calibrations that belong to the aircraft, and a troubleshooting table.

Upgrading an LX 4000 / 5000 / 7000 / 7007 to the LX 10K

What carries over from the old system, what is new behind the panel, how to choose the vario indicator, what data to bring across, and the first-flight checks.

CAN bus wiring rules for LX instruments

Termination, topology, where to feed the power, cable and connector practice — the five installation mistakes behind almost every intermittent panel fault.

Colibri X: task declaration, logging and getting the flight out

Declaring a task before flight, the five ways a task reaches the recorder, what the declaration carries besides turnpoints, the logger settings that matter, and the three routes for getting the IGC file off the instrument.

PowerFLARM Eagle: installation, antennas, licences and range

Power, the two FLARM ports, antenna placement that decides your range, which licences unlock which functions, and how to verify your installation from recorded contacts rather than from the ground.

FLARM LED Display Pro: what every light and screen means

The LED ring colour by colour, the start-up sequence, the idle and warning screens, the fault indications and the audio warnings — plus which cable your FLARM needs.

Traffic Square and Traffic Monitor: setup, pages and updates

Two instruments that share their software: the gestures and knobs that drive them, the pages they show, the databases they need, the settings worth doing once, and how to update them.

Every warning on the Era and LX 10K, explained

What the red warning square means for each of the ten switchable warnings, what triggers it, what to do about it — and the warnings that are really settings, including the silent vario and the airspace alert that never comes.

FLARM Eagle WiFi update

This document describes FLARM Eagle WiFi update procedure.

Iris backup battery functions

All Iris devices contain internal backup battery that enables the device to run uninterruptible in case of the main power supply malfunction.

Zeus, Eos, Helios, Colibri II and the LX 7007: support status and upgrade paths

What still exists for instruments out of production: repair while parts last, IGC recalibration and resealing, download-centre pages per device, getting your data off before retirement, and the natural upgrade for each family.