iFly GPS Forum

Thanks, Shane. It would be a big help to separate Terrain and Obstacles. I don't mind the color changes--that's useful. But the alerts are terribly distracting when flying low on purpose.

As for Obstacles and seaplanes--well, any indication of wires and towers ahead is good. Even better for situational awareness would be to highlight them on the map or have them flash on and off.

It would also be good if we users could add uncharted wires, etc., to a special set of user waypoints so that iFly could treat them as Obstacles--highlight or flash them when the airplane is flying low, within their "reach." Most seaplane pilots have been surprised by suddenly having a wire seem to materialize right in front of them. I lost a friend that way and have come close to making my wife a widow twice--missing surprise wires by only a few feet at the very last second.

Chuck... I don't believe I promised anything, I try not to ever promise such details as ultimately it is Walter's call and company.

To my knowledge, there will be the options to Disable the alerts seperately, if not alltogether. It has been discussed to remove all alerts if they are set to Disabled. Disabled should be Disabled, not partially disabled... In my opinion having an alert pop or show when disabled is a bug or design error.

The end result of splitting these alerts out is to give everyone better options to suite thier flying needs and to have better aviation consistency with alerting styles.

I hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving.