KR> Stratus ADS-B with iFly 720?
Sorry - i was not clear, I meant the weather app that is on the Ifly App and nothing to do with Stratus or any other ADS-B.I'm sure they are not the same animal. Joe - Original Message - From: "Jeff Scott via KRnet" To: krnet at list.krnet.org Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2015 5:35:48 PM Subject: Re: KR> Stratus ADS-B with iFly 720? >>That's kind of a harsh assessment of the weather app. My observation is that >>it works pretty well.
KR> Stratus ADS-B with iFly 720?
> Mark, > I can't help with most of that stuff but the Ifly app is dissappointing at > best. I was sitting in light rain(but steady) and the closest rain that it > showed on the map was a good 25 miles away. It also does not pick up freezing > rain nor snow. The weather protion of the Ifly app is useless for our purpose > altough the rest of the navigation is fine and like youmentioned is pretty > intuitive.I also put that same question out a few weeks ago if the ADS-B > weather picked up to the definition that we are accustom to on the XM > weather. Jeff Scott was the only person to answer and he did not really know > how well the weather is depicted > Joe > That's kind of a harsh assessment of the weather app. My observation is that it works pretty well. What I said I didn't know is how snow and freezing rain show up, as to whether they are painted blue or green. The weather radar depictions aren't native to iFly. They are native to what is being broadcast by the ADS-B tower, so that's what gets painted on the screen. There's a lot more to weather than just the weather radar app. For specific conditions, select the weather at the nearest reporting airport and that will give you winds, barometer, cloud cover, ceiling, precip, and type of precip. However, the weather conditions at a nearby airport using ADS-B are often times quite stale. Once you pick up a weather report for an airport, often times it doesn't get updated for up to an hour. Again, that is a function of ADS-B, not the iFly app. One of the interesting aspects of the FIS-B service is that it often times doesn't do much if there isn't any significant weather in the area. I often times find that the ADS-B tower simply doesn't show up or the weather updates are really slow and stale. But if there is significant weather in the area, like thunderstorms, the FIS-B service wakes up and starts streaming broadcasts. Typically when there is a thunderstorm in the area, I can suddenly receive the FIS-B service when sitting on the ground in Santa Fe or Los Alamos, and the radar updates are typically at 3 minute intervals and highly accurate. This seems to be true regardless of whether I'm in the plane with ADS-B out or the one that has FIS-B receive only. One of the disappointments of the FIS-B service is that they are not including TFR data, even though you'll see the FAA repeatedly stating that FIS-B does include TFR data. -Jeff Scott
KR> Stratus ADS-B with iFly 720?
Mark, I can't help with most of that stuff but the Ifly app is dissappointing at best. I was sitting in light rain(but steady) and the closest rain that it showed on the map was a good 25 miles away. It also does not pick up freezing rain nor snow. The weather protion of the Ifly app is useless for our purpose altough the rest of the navigation is fine and like youmentioned is pretty intuitive.I also put that same question out a few weeks ago if the ADS-B weather picked up to the definition that we are accustom to on the XM weather. Jeff Scott was the only person to answer and he did not really know how well the weather is depicted Joe - Original Message - From: "Mark Langford via KRnet" To: "KRnet" Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2015 9:48:55 PM Subject: KR> Stratus ADS-B with iFly 720? KRnetHeads, Anybody know if the iFly 720 will work with a Stratus 2 ADS-B? Their website says it works with the Stratus "Gen 1 Beta", which seems odd, but that info is rather dated information. I'll call Monday and ask, but I'm curious if anybody's used the Stratus 2 with the 720. Despite having a fancy MGL iEFIS touchscreen in front of my face, the iFly 720 has become my favorite navigation tool. It's dirt simple, intuitively obvious, and a very well thought out interface. I figured out how to enter Lake Parker arrival GPS coordinates into the 720 in about a minute...an hour later I was still trying to get the same coordinates into the MGL iEFIS...and never got there! Picking my way through all the weather on the way back from SNF convinced me to 1) kiss the ground when I finally landed, and 2) buy an ADS-B so I could see the rain next time! I let my XM subscription lapse long ago...philosophically opposed to paying $30 a month for that, especially with the flaky (5 pound) laptop interface. I borrowed a Stratus 2 for the Chino trip and was duly impressed on iPhone and iPad with Foreflight. It's really nice to see not just weather and traffic, but airport AWOS info realtime. This can be a life-saver when it comes to choosing the airport you want to land at during high-wind situations. The beauty of an iPAD is that if yours croaks, you can borrow or buy a new one and be back online in a day. If your fancy EFIS croaks, you may be down for a month waiting for a repair or replacement. Steam gauges do have their appeal as well...somebody at the airport is bound to have an ASI or altimeter you can borrow for a few days, but not your particular brand of EFIS while it's "back for repair". I'm rapidly regressing to the thought of the good old reliable Grand Rapids EIS for engine monitoring, iFly 720 for navigation, and iPAD with Foreflight with ADSB for redundancy. And of course, the iFLY app can be run on the iPAD without the dedicated box, so now we're talking really inexpensive situational awareness. The MGL iEFIS is sorely lacking in engine and flight data logging capability through the SD card, among many other things, such as documentation... Planning for McMinnville... -- Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com ___ Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options
KR> Stratus ADS-B with iFly 720?
KRnetHeads, Anybody know if the iFly 720 will work with a Stratus 2 ADS-B? Their website says it works with the Stratus "Gen 1 Beta", which seems odd, but that info is rather dated information. I'll call Monday and ask, but I'm curious if anybody's used the Stratus 2 with the 720. Despite having a fancy MGL iEFIS touchscreen in front of my face, the iFly 720 has become my favorite navigation tool. It's dirt simple, intuitively obvious, and a very well thought out interface. I figured out how to enter Lake Parker arrival GPS coordinates into the 720 in about a minute...an hour later I was still trying to get the same coordinates into the MGL iEFIS...and never got there! Picking my way through all the weather on the way back from SNF convinced me to 1) kiss the ground when I finally landed, and 2) buy an ADS-B so I could see the rain next time! I let my XM subscription lapse long ago...philosophically opposed to paying $30 a month for that, especially with the flaky (5 pound) laptop interface. I borrowed a Stratus 2 for the Chino trip and was duly impressed on iPhone and iPad with Foreflight. It's really nice to see not just weather and traffic, but airport AWOS info realtime. This can be a life-saver when it comes to choosing the airport you want to land at during high-wind situations. The beauty of an iPAD is that if yours croaks, you can borrow or buy a new one and be back online in a day. If your fancy EFIS croaks, you may be down for a month waiting for a repair or replacement. Steam gauges do have their appeal as well...somebody at the airport is bound to have an ASI or altimeter you can borrow for a few days, but not your particular brand of EFIS while it's "back for repair". I'm rapidly regressing to the thought of the good old reliable Grand Rapids EIS for engine monitoring, iFly 720 for navigation, and iPAD with Foreflight with ADSB for redundancy. And of course, the iFLY app can be run on the iPAD without the dedicated box, so now we're talking really inexpensive situational awareness. The MGL iEFIS is sorely lacking in engine and flight data logging capability through the SD card, among many other things, such as documentation... Planning for McMinnville... -- Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com
