Walter wrote:
The 740 and 740b are almost identical in brightness, upgrading in this case would not benefit you. I'll notate your suggestions for a future release.
Thanks!
Walter, I hope that "future release" comes sooner rather than later. Just yesterday I was flying near an airport (KFCI) where several pilots were announcing their positions screwily--one said he was near a fix I didn't recognize, another was entering somewhere on a right base for a left-pattern runway, and a third was on an IFR approach to the opposite runway of the one in use. I kept glancing at the 740, but couldn't pick out any of that traffic. At least some of it was probably there, but I didn't have the luxury of studying the screen to find it. (Both the map and the half-screen EFIS were open.)
I did notice an airliner in the clear blue sky of the EFIS, several thousand feet above me, letting down to land at KRIC, but saw nobody close to the horizon clutter, where the rest of us all were.
I also had iFly open on my iPhone, but it didn't seem to be displaying any ADS-B info then, even though I had connected it manually to the uAvionix wifi before takeoff.
There's another side to the ADS-B traffic displays that I find really disappointing--that many, many ADS-B out aircraft NEVER show up in any display, including iFly, FlightAware, Flight Radar 24, Plane Finder, and even the FAA's ADS-B test site. That's not an iFly problem, of course. And it may be corrected if and when ADS-B starts using satellites for the data link instead of other aircraft and ground stations. Right now, however, I don't have any faith that any particular aircraft will show up in any ADS-B display anywhere.