iFly GPS Forum

I'm guessing this is not something that's easy to change, but I'm wondering if there's any possibility of getting an earlier opportunity to switch to Night Mode during the boot process?

I try to be careful during my preflight to avoid bright lights and let my eyes start adjusting to the dark. They say it takes ~30 min for your eyes to fully adjust, so I figure about the time I'm taking off, they're about there.

Last night, I flew to a nearby town for dinner. Landed before sunset, but it was dark for the flight back. Everything was fine until I turned on the Master, and as I ran through the startup checklist and was configuring the radios, *BAM*!--the brilliant white "don't use the iFly for navigation" disclaimer screen (which I strongly dislike anyway) lit up the cockpit like the 4th of July.

By the time I got past that page and navigated the couple of button clicks to change to Night mode, my night vision was shot.

If there's no option for an earlier Mode toggle, could you at least consider a redesign of the disclaimer page so that it's more "night friendly"? Black background with red text or something, perhaps?

Thanks for the consideration.

Consider this considered. I also like the auto-night-mode idea - we played with this for v5 but never quite got the algorithms to work right so pulled it. Haven't worked on it since. If someone knows of a nice C# implementation of that logic let me know!

Thanks,
Walter

Walter - That MS Excel spreadsheet that I sent you, 'Flying Calc', has the formulas for both sun raise and sun set given the date, lat. and long. Look on the 'Sun & TZ' tab. I also have a spreadsheet for moon raise & set if you ever want to make that a feature on the iFly.

Jim Williams