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Don Maxwell - Apr 08,2018
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Hey, iFly GPS lovers. Starting today iFly has synthetic vision as a standard part of the portable hardware GPS (740 and 740b) and the Windows program, and it will be available for download on the iPad and iPhone as soon as Apple adds it to the App Store, and on Android devices as soon as their people get to it.
If you'd like to watch a video of your favorite geeks at Adventure Pilot making it official and demo-ing the synthetic vision part of the app, they did it live on Facebook. A recording of that is here: https://www.facebook.com/AdventurePilot/videos/10156283836479872/
Here's a brief video of it running on the iFly 740 in my Searey. Almost everything on the screen is configurable; I had turned several things off for that beta-test flight. But you'll see an airport flag, and the little flying saucer thingie is traffic--in 3D, of course. (If the traffic had been equipped with ADS-B Out, its info would have been displayed on the iFly screen.) No mountains only because it's flat where I live.
The other photo is of landing at an airport.
And if you aren't familiar with iFly or its parent company, Adventure Pilot--well, it comes in all of those flavors: a "portable" handheld that is easily mounted on a yoke or instrument panel, iOS, Android, and Windows. A year's VFR subscription is $69.99. Twenty bucks more gives you iFly on up to four devices. Forty bucks more for IFR.
The synthetic vision update is so new they don't even have a photo of it yet on their website: https://www.iflygps.com/
They'll be at Sun-n-Fun.
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Carr, Frank - May 20,2018
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Don, I've been interested in your iFly GPS for a long time. I might get reinterested. Do you know if the 704b can be viewed
inn the portrait mode? It looks to me that your photo shows the 704 on an iPad in portrait.
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Don Maxwell - May 20,2018
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I'm pretty sure of it, Frank. I think it's the upgrade for the 740, which does both portrait and landscape. But to be sure I've asked the support guy about it--and several other questions of my own--and will let you know what he says.
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Don Maxwell - May 21,2018
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Frank, here's an email conversation with a support guy. Start at the very bottom and read the messages upward:
Don,
We're down to the last few open box units, which were mostly returned unused due to fitment issues or loss of medical. With the price of the 740b being 2/3rd of the 740 price and negligible brightness difference, we didn't see a demand for more 740's so we aren't making any more.
Thanks,
Shaun Brand
Adventure Pilot, LLC .
610 Elm Street, Suite 120 | McKinney, TX 75069
Tel/Fax : 1.888.200.5129 x810
URL: www.iFlyGPS.com
---- On Mon, 21 May 2018 16:44:46 -0500 donmaxwell@abstractconcreteworks.com wrote ----
Thanks, Shaun. So is the 740 still available? The only listings I find for it in the online store are an open box special and the ADS-B bundle.
=Don
On 5/21/18 12:43, Adventure Pilot wrote:
Don,
Let me try to stay in order.
Everything except the 520 support portrait mode.
The 740b is technically a downgrade. The 740 has a 1300 nit screen that we had to have custom designed for us.
Last year, our manufacturer found a 1100 nit screen that was already being mass produced, so we put out the 740b to bring the price down. The backlight also draws less current since it's dimmer.
The temperature depends on a lot of things, most of which is screen brightness. Since the 740b isn't as bright, it might run marginally cooler, but probably not noticeably. The units are designed around the heat of those screens.
The processor is a little faster on paper, but it doesn't have a noticeable effect in our testing.
The 740b is slightly dimmer, but it's a bluer color temperature to compromise, so in direct sunlight they're very similar but your 740 has the advantage.
AirGizmos makes a panel dock that's listed for the 700 and 720. If you mount it in the panel upside-down, the 740 and 740b both fit in it perfectly. If you mount it right side up, there's about a millimeter of play which Steve from AirGizmos was saying he was going to address with shims. We usually recommend the upside-down approach.
I hope that helps,
Shaun Brand
Adventure Pilot, LLC .
610 Elm Street, Suite 120 | McKinney, TX 75069
Tel/Fax : 1.888.200.5129 x810
URL: www.iFlyGPS.com
---- On Sun, 20 May 2018 18:04:22 -0500 donmaxwell@abstractconcreteworks.com wrote ----
A question from a friend: Does the 740b work in portrait mode?
I love my 740. But is the 740b better? And if so, in what ways?
According to the website, the b version appears to draw less current and the display is 1100 nits instead of 1300 in the 740.
Does it run cooler?
Is the processor faster?
Is the screen more readable in bright sun, especially when it reflects off my knees?
And one more: Is there an instrument panel dock available for the 740/740b? I'm using a lash-up based on a RAM mount to hold my 740 in place in the panel. That makes it easy to take out and put back in, but it's not as solid as I'd like it to be.
=Don Maxwell
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Carr, Frank - May 21,2018
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So Don, if my late night reading is correct, thenL
"Everything except the 520 support portrait mode."
I conclude the 740b DOES support Protrrait mode.
Thanks Don, now if I get reacclimatized with my SR (I've been non-flying for personal issues at home) I think I'll spring for the 740b;
my AV8OR has died and my panel space supports a portrait mode but not landscape.
Thanks a bunch.
Frank
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Don Maxwell - May 24,2018
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Hey, Frank, there's a $100-off deal on iFly 740b:
(But I still think it's a good idea to get the phone or tablet version and see if you like it. I like it better than the others for casual VFR flying, including x-c, but it does what it does somewhat differently from the others, and they haven't updated the docs for synthetic vision yet (because it's still under development), so you may have to poke around to find the subtler things and re-train your "intuition.")
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Don Maxwell - May 21,2018
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Frank, if you have an iOS or Android phone or tablet, why not get the iFly app for it first and see if you like it. If you do, then get the 740b hardware version and pay $20 more for the Multi-Platform upgrade that gives you up to 4 devices running iOS, Android, or Windows.
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Carr, Frank - May 27,2018
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Don, All good ideas. In my case, my Mini iPad lacks the GPS chip set and if that isn't enough it is not readable in the SR cockpit.
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Don Maxwell - May 27,2018
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Well, then, Frank, I'll predict that you'll like your new 740b. I hope you'll find conditions favorable for that soon.
Wait--how could I forget: the Windows version of iFly is still in beta and is free. It runs in Windows 7, 8, and 10. If no GPS is connected to the computer, it will work fine--just won't know where it is until you tell it. Download it at https://www.iflygps.com/Windows
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