iFly GPS Forum

Ha! You're right, Cobra. The GPS signal loss happened about 10 or 12 years ago, when I was using a Lowrance Airmap 2000c GPS. No doubt it kept right on displaying the flight plan, but I didn't think to look at it BECAUSE I already knew the heading, having just checked it a few minutes earlier.  Duh.

Well, I can't think of a better example.  But I still wish for a way to print a flight plan directly from my iPhone--because that's what I usually use for flight planning. (I also need to practice syncing flight plans from the phone to the 740. I haven't done that enough and it seems to be fuddled in my brain.)

By the way, if anyone ever experiences a GPS loss of signal, apparently the official remedy is to call ATC and say, "Stop buzzing." That's supposed to get through to whoever is testing GPS signal jamming.

Thanks, Cobra! That's easy, and you've stated it clearly. Using your method I can sync from my (cute little cheap red plastic Dell laptop/tablet) Windows machine to my iPhone. And vice versa.

My main problem is in syncing from the iPhone to the 740 when the 740 is installed in the panel of my Searey. There's no wifi network available where I have a hangar, so to sync the two iFly apps (iPhone and 740) I have to use the phone as a hotspot and then connect the 740 to it. And that's complicated because my 740 has never been able to connect to any wifi network reliably if it has more than one network in its WiFi Network memory. So I have to make the connection manually. And if I do that, the 740 won't connect to any other network until I delete the iPhone from the 740's WiFi Network memory.  And THAT's soon going to be even more complicated when I finish installing the uAvionix ADS-B with wireless connection to the 740, which will mean deleting any network other than the uAvionix network so that the 740 will be able to connect to ADS-B automatically every time I go flying.

Does anyone know if the 740b will connect automatically to thre nearest of several servers listed in its WiFi Network memory--the way it's supposed to? If so, I might buy one, just to be done with this one 740 quirk.

Otherwise, it would be nice to have an easy, one-click way to sync using a USB thumb drive (or something like it) that doesn't require copying a flight plan file from C:\_iFlyGPS_Data\User\#FlightPlans\ to the 740. That's probably possible, but would be far too complicated for real life.

Don, I feel your pain re: wi-fi networks on the dedicated iFly devices.  I don't have a 740, but my 720 is also finicky about that.  My solution to the issue may not be acceptable to you:  I configured the 720 to join my Stratux network in the plane, and that's the only network I let it connect to.  That supports the flight-plan sharing that I want it to do, and it gets the ADSB-in from the Stratux while I'm flying.

Outside of the plane, I pull the SD card from the 720 to do data and software updates, so it never has to go onto a wifi network outside of the plane.'

If you don't have an ADSB-in device that can act as a wifi hub in the plane, then that won't be a good solution for you.  Once you get your uAvionix device set up, though, you may be able to do what I'm describing.