turns out my suction cup mount had fallen off the back window and the Stratus was lying on its side on the back seat. I could hear the warning signal even with my headphones on, and the screen flashed. as I was flying, the artificial horizon annunciator went crazy. Did have one fun thing happen the first time, though. I had it fired up for some pattern work twice before, but didn't use it much due to the workload and lack of necessity. This was really the first time I had to use it much in flight. However, since this hugely increased level of utility is this easily accessible, and I'm sure there's still other layers I've yet to discover, I'll definitely be subscribing to iFly near the expiration of my trial period. but compared to FPG or Avare, this is a QUANTUM leap forward. Have no idea how it compares to ForeFlight. reminded me when to start my descent automatically, annunciators for traffic, soooooooo much easier to call up weather and airport info, distance rings/predicted course arrows, flight plan, the EFIS works great (traffic shows exactly where you'd see it in 3D. It automatically started itself upon takeoff, reminded to switch tanks. I had forgotten I had set a 30-minute reminder timer to switch tanks while messing with the app when I first installed it. Just astonishingly useful and easy-to-use tech for the price, and so much more (or at least more easily) to offer than FltPlan Go. flew two short cross country flights with iFly on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (7") yesterday, paired to a GPS/AHRS-equipped Stratux. Not connected with the company in anyway just messed around with it only to see if I was missing anything by not having AHRS support, and discovered that I was missing much more than just that. If you're an Androider and/or are using Avare or FPG, but would consider a paid product, maybe check out iFly. Looks like I'm going to be out $139 soon. but not near as easily, intuitively, or quickly. Not saying, necessarily, that FltPlan Go can't do some or most of these things. ![]() it'd take forever to list all the pluses. runway information w/ winds, recommendations for nearest emergency airports based upon airplane performance, ease of creating flight plans with winds incorporated. iFly, at least after two days of minimal experience and poking around w/ the manual, is orders of magnitude better. and I'd have no problem continuing to fly with it. This is coming from someone who was perfectly happy with FltPlan GO. The screen did look a bit more cluttered to me at first, and at least on my tablet the scrolling, zooming, and some of the redraws aren't QUITE as fast or smooth as w/ FltPlan Go, but the onscreen instruments are infinitely more customizable (and therefore more usable), the data download procedure is easier (although neither is bad at all), but in pretty much every area it's not even a close competition. SOOoo much easier to use, faster to get to the information you want, and the AHRS/synthetic vision is beautiful. Got sick of waiting so I downloaded iFly two days ago and am using the 30-day trial period to get acquainted with it. Only complaint was the ongoing, longterm yet never fulfilled promise to incorporate AHRS on Android (only available on the iDevice version). ![]() Been flying with FltPlan GO on Android and a Stratux for a year or so.
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