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Landing at airports

7/1/2017 3:31 PM

pielit

Joined: 2/8/2012

Posts: 183

Landing at airports

I would like to request when flight planning, that iFly would automatically know when an airport is used as a waypoint, iFly would know you’re landing, this way the VST instrument would activate.

Imagine my surprise while in flight I added an airport with cheaper gas as a waypoint. I was halfway to home airport in the opposite direction and the VST didn’t seem to be correct. I knew it was wrong when I seemed to be a little high. Oops, VST was indicating KDVT and not E25.

Zodiac 601HDS N6402X aprs KF7WIR-1

7/1/2017 3:45 PM

Jeff Clark

Joined: 9/20/2012

Posts: 1254

Re: Landing at airports

This is one of those danged if you do, danged if you don't issues. A lot of pilots use airports as waypoints without intending to land there and iFly handles the issue by allowing you to manually select interim waypoints to land at. To do this, open the flight plan screen and tap on the "Opt" button beside the airport waypoint you want to land at, and select "Land Here". Now iFly will show <Landing> with this waypoint, and will adjust the flight instruments accordingly.

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

7/1/2017 11:18 PM

pielit

Joined: 2/8/2012

Posts: 183

Re: Landing at airports

Yep, I'm aware of using the landing option. I would think that most of the time using an airport as a waypoint one would want to land. There may be an occasion where you wouldn't land and I would prefer to mark it as not landing.

Maybe there could be a software option to make it to your preference.

Zodiac 601HDS N6402X aprs KF7WIR-1

7/2/2017 12:51 AM

Joined: 1/1/0001

Posts: 0

Re: Landing at airports Modified By on 7/2/2017 12:54:33 AM

I disagree. People use airports as landmarks all the time. Sometimes, as a safety factor or "feel good" factor in case they have a problem, they are never far from an airport. Most flights, we have a departure airport and destination airport at which we land. I don't see an issue. If I want to land half-way, I can mark that airport to land. In the rare event, I want to fly a round robin and land at 4 different airports, it's easy to click on those airports in the flight plan and choose land here, but that would be a rare occasion for most pilots, I think.

7/5/2017 10:55 AM

Tony Bolstad

Joined: 7/7/2014

Posts: 220

Re: Landing at airports

I also put airports in my flight plan that I don't plan to land at. They're east to spot landmarks and provide easy alternates along the route I'm on. I use the Land Here option if I'm planning on refueling.

Tony

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