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iFly can help with these excursions

2/23/2017 7:43 PM

Jeff Clark

Joined: 9/20/2012

Posts: 1254

iFly can help with these excursions

Interesting leisure-time reading from AOPA. For situational awareness, the vertical profile window in iFly gives you a pretty good indication of when and where you'll enter/exit airspaces during a climb or descent. Just remember that the GPS altitude in iFly will not exactly match the altimeter's altitude.

www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/...

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Jeff Nokomis Clark, Mooney M20G, iFly app on ASUS ZenPad Z8s, ASUS ZenFone AR, ASUS Windows 10 tablet, Stratux ADS-B w AHRS

2/23/2017 8:24 PM

ErgonomicMike

Joined: 9/3/2014

Posts: 2102

Re: iFly can help with these excursions

Yep. I use it all the time to avoid airspace. (And mountains.) However, I've noticed that the vertical course line is very "noisy" in that it wanders up and down quite a bit in flight, even with WAAS. And even in straight and level flight. (Can post a video of it in S&L if anyone would like.)

It's more like having an Instantaneous VSI than a conventional (slow) one. I would like a (user selectable?) way to damp out the VP response to more like a 5 second sample time.

And you all say ... ?

2/23/2017 8:49 PM

David

Joined: 1/3/2011

Posts: 521

Re: iFly can help with these excursions

I agree the vertical course line is far too sensitive to be very usefull. I second the motion to have some way to desensitize it.

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