No Audible traffic alarm while sitting stationary

[FlyinLo]

I have the Statux from Crewdogs and I use this while doing commercial drone flying to monitor aircraft traffic. I had been using another program but iFly will allow for much better tuning of the distance and vertical separation ranges for my use case. The one problem, and a big one, is that I am not receiving any audible alarms. The icon for the approaching plane will be yellow, then red, but no audible alarms at all. No dings, no popups. Nothing. I also tested the Android version and the iOs version seems much smoother so I will stay with that. Anyone have any insight if the lack of audible alarms is due to being stationary? I load the other program and I get audible alerts, close that and open iFly efb and see the red/yellow icons but no alerts. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I have not tested this by driving down the road to see if the alarm will sound while driving. It won't know I am not flying. I may try that today.

Tim

 

[Gatormyk]

I have the Statux from Crewdogs and I use this while doing commercial drone flying to monitor aircraft traffic. I had been using another program but iFly will allow for much better tuning of the distance and vertical separation ranges for my use case. The one problem, and a big one, is that I am not receiving any audible alarms. The icon for the approaching plane will be yellow, then red, but no audible alarms at all. No dings, no popups. Nothing. I also tested the Android version and the iOs version seems much smoother so I will stay with that. Anyone have any insight if the lack of audible alarms is due to being stationary? I load the other program and I get audible alerts, close that and open iFly efb and see the red/yellow icons but no alerts. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I have not tested this by driving down the road to see if the alarm will sound while driving. It won't know I am not flying. I may try that today.

Tim

Are Audio Callouts for Traffic enabled?

Menu > Setup > Alerts and Warnings > Audio Callouts > Traffic (checked)

Also:

Menu > Setup > Alerts and Warnings > Traffic Alerts > Enable Traffic Alerts (checked)
Menu > Setup > Alerts and Warnings > Traffic Alerts > Set Alert Thresholds > (set Max Distance and Vertical Clearance)

Is the traffic about which you are expecting warnings within both thresholds?

It's possible that iFly EFB believes you are an aircraft on the ground and taxiing (or stationary) and thus may silence/disable traffic alerts and audio callouts. You may want to ask that question to the iFly EFB team directly. If that is the case, you may then want to perform a feature request to enable those alerts via an option selection for when you are on the ground either taxiing or stationary or that there be an option for something like "drone operator" that would enable those alerts in your specific use case.

 

[FlyinLo]

HI Gatormyk, I heard from Chris in tech support. The issue is that the alerts are designed to be silenced when on the ground so as not to be distracting. For GA this is a good thing. But for the Drone community wanting to monitor aircraft, we need just the opposite So I am hoping they will provide an option to turn that on so that guys like me can have it on when the ADS-B is stationary (ie on the top of my truck). It will be a very nice setup if they do.

 

[Cobra]

I also tested the Android version and the iOs version seems much smoother so I will stay with that.

Gatormyk has addressed your other questions and I can't add anything to his response.

Re: Android vs. iOS, though, the app performance should be essentially identical when used on comparable hardware. If you're seeing sluggishness on Android compared to iOS, it's probable that you're either using an older or budget tablet, or that there's something else running in the background that's competing for processing cycles with iFly.

 

[FlyinLo]

Gatormyk has addressed your other questions and I can't add anything to his response.

Re: Android vs. iOS, though, the app performance should be essentially identical when used on comparable hardware. If you're seeing sluggishness on Android compared to iOS, it's probable that you're either using an older or budget tablet, or that there's something else running in the background that's competing for processing cycles with iFly.

Hi Cobra, I did not word that very well. I wanted to test the Android to see if the audible alerts worked there . I could not find the option to turn on the audible alerts in the Android version (even though the results would be the same since I am stationary on the ground). I will have to go back and test that again to verify that is the case. If I get the chance to do that, I will record both the ipad and Android interface and click thru simultaneous so provide a side by side comparison. But I may have just missed it. I do like the ios better, maybe they are the same and it just seems better But there was no slugishness in the Android. Wanted to clear that up.

 

[Cobra]

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification.

If you've got the same version of iFly installed on both devices, you should see the same menu options. iFly was designed to have the same user interface across all the platforms it supports for consistency. Whether you use it on an iPhone, a Windows laptop, or an Android tablet, the app is essentially identical.