Recent content by Don Maxwell

Hm... I can't get mine to connect today, either. Odd. The 740 has always been slow to connect, but eventually it always has. Not today, though.

Thanks, Cobra. It's low priority for me, but I'll probably get around to fooling with it again later.

One last PIREP for this: iFly EFB works in Apple Silicon exactly as it does on an iPad. That includes depicting ADSB traffic--IF the Mac is connected to an ADSB receiver. That's simple via wifi--just connect the Mac to the ADSB wifi router and then use the ADSB Status instrument or the Setup...

The original iFly 700 was gorgeous in the AP booth at Sun-n-Fun the year it was released. I had my credit card out and was second in line to buy, when I happened to wonder how it would look in my SeaRey, which has sliding transparent canopies well ahead of the wings. I don't know what prompted...

Thanks, Cobra. Of course precise location isn't a problem when iFly is running on a desktop machine--or on a laptop, either, for that matter, because you'd have to be nuts to try to navigate in flight with a laptop, when any number of tablets and phones are available to do the job better and...

Cobra, that makes good sense--but what puzzles me is that iFly is reporting "Weak GPS Signal" (just below the 360 mark on the tape instrument). That seems to suggest that it's actually receiving a GPS signal, rather than interpolating from all that other data. Also, the GPS Status instrument...

You might not have noticed that I'm not actually IN DC. I'm about 100 nm south, and about 13 nm south of KRIC. So when I clicked on NRST the nearest airports are all near where I am: What that tells us is that somehow--I haven't figured out how for sure yet--iFly knows where the Mac is, and...

Here are a few more screenshots to show that iFy is working normally:

I finally got around to trying iPad and iPhone apps on the Mac Studio desktop computer with an Apple Silicon M2 Max chip that I bought last summer. I ran several successfully before summoning the courage to try iFly EFB. There was a brief learning period while I had to read some help to find...

Excellent, Dave! So in this regard, iFly on Android is way ahead of iFly on iOS. That doesn't make the iOS user in me happy, but it does seem to demonstrate that iFly already has different versions for Android and iOS. Sorry, Cobra. It looks like we were both differently wrong. So there's no...

Sorry! I never did answer the original question. It seems to me that zooming in ought to bring out more detail. But that's not how the question is framed. My main reservation about those photos has been that about half the time I'm frustrated by the limited area, rather than the low resolution...

Cobra, isn't that a straw-man argument made of hypotheticals that seem easy to destroy? Let's try a different direction: I just did an internet search (in Firefox) on my Mac (with "Apple Intelligence" turned on--which is a bit scary!) and got two different kinds of response--an AI discussion...

Cobra, your final point--about availability in flight--is very good. It hadn't occurred to me at all--probably because since I began using iFly about 10 or 12 years ago, I haven't needed to make an unplanned stop and locate an unfamiliar FBO. Earlier, there were many occasions when a good...

How about another option--a button or something to tap on that will automatically copy the coordinates of the field and paste them into the Apple Maps or GoogleMaps app. Or at the very least copy the coordinates to the device's clipboard so the user can paste them manually into a mapping app. I...

Dave Hirschman reported on Garmin, Foreflight, and Dynon glide rings recently in an AOPA video: Glide Rings - Hirschman