Recent content by Don Maxwell

I'd like that, too. But maybe the airport's airspace class could be added to the Airport Info page, as so many other data are already. Right up at the top would be good. It's true that sectional charts depict Class E airspace beginning at the ground with dashed magenta lines--but it probably...

iOS 26.2 does this rotation bit just like 26.1. But I'm not so sure it's a bug of a bad nature. I kind of like being able to turn the iPad Mini 6 on its side and NOT HAVE to shut iFly down and re-open it and then wait for the WX, etc., to reload in order to use it. It's nice to just flip it...

Cobra, I've just experimented further and found a few other discrepancies: I'm using an iPad Mini 6--which Apple says is quite different from the Mini 5 and which sponsored a good many iFly beta bug reports a when it was new. So I'm not surprised that your Mini 5 behaves differently now. My...

That's exactly what I get. The iPhone version works normally in iOS 26.1. The iPad WORKS in iPadOS 26.1, but it looks like this: --and that comes up automatically and identically when iFly is running in portrait mode and I rotate the iPad to landscape. The cool thing is that iFly seems to work...

Yeah, I noticed it in a recent renewal that happened to coincide with my Garmin Pilot renewal that would have cost me $109.99--call it $110. (My Garmin Pilot U.S. standard subscription expired yesterday, and for various reasons I'm letting it lapse, after about 25 years (25 counting its...

iFly EFB doesn't work in split view mode on iPads and iPhones--but you can use iFly while watching a video in picture-in-picture mode. (Or vice versa.) Apple says you can also make a FaceTime call, although I haven't tried that yet. Here's a screenshot as evidence. I was watching the countdown...

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...