Connect via USB

Enroute Flight Navigation is able to connect to your traffic data receiver using USB connections. Compared with Wi-Fi, USB connections are equally reliable, but require a bit of manual configuration. By nature, USB supports only point-to-point connections, so that only one single app can access traffic data at any given time. Pilots and co-pilots must therefore decide who gets to see traffic data.

Note

Enroute Flight Navigation expects a stream for FLARM/NMEA sentences from the USB.

Note

USB communication is not available on iPhone or iPad devices.

One-time Setup

Step 0: Before You Connect

Before you try to connect this app to your traffic receiver, make sure that the following conditions are met.

  • The hardware is set up. You know the communication parameters of your device, depending on the hardware in use, this might be the baud rate.

  • Your traffic receiver is switched on and broadcasts FLARM/NMEA via its USB connection.

  • No other app on your device uses the USB connection.

Step 1: Configure a Data Connection to the USB Device

Follow the steps described in the Section Settings: Data Connections. You will need to know or guess the name of the USB device on your device.

Step 2: Check Connectivity

After the data connection to the USB device has been configured in Step 1, everything else should be automatic. To check, open the main menu and navigate to the “Information” menu. If the entry “Traffic Receiver” is highlighted in green, then Enroute Flight Navigation has already found the traffic receiver and has connected to it. Congratulations, you are done!

If the entry “Traffic Receiver” is not highlighted in green, then something has gone wrong.

Daily Operations

Once things are set up properly, your device should automatically connect to the traffic data stream whenever you go flying. We recommend the following procedure.

  • Connect your device to the USB cable if not connected already.

  • After you power on the avionics and the traffic receiver has booted, start Enroute Flight Navigation.

  • Enroute Flight Navigation will connect to your traffic data receiver via the configured USB connection and show traffic information in the moving map.

  • If the data connection gets lost in mid-flight, Enroute Flight Navigation will automatically try to re-connect.