OldPilot wrote:Maybe it's just me, but it seems like some people are asking too much of IFly GPS. I guess almost anything is possible given all the information that is available from multiple sources and given the programming time and talent available at Adventure Pilot. However it sometimes seems some people want their tablet to do everything so they just get in the plane and fly from point A to B with zero thought. ........Maybe I'm just "old school," but enough is enough IMHO.
The thing about extra features, that perhaps you're missing, is that most or all can be set as user options.
If you're more comfortable with the more bare bones features, fine.
(Though I do note that what are considered and valued bare bones essential features in an under $1000 aviation Gos today were considered unimaginably rich options 20 years ago .)
I support in my work users if computer desktop software. Most users of a even a world processor use and need only a small fraction of the hundreds of features.. But if the two features that could make what you're working on easier or make possible something not doable without them, you'd do well IMHO to let the developer know you,d like them.
I see nothing wrong with having features in iFly that make it easier to safely fly from A to B with less complex and less demanding thought . Used wisely such features frees up more brain power, attention, and concertration, for things no GPS can do... Such as listening to the engine an prop sounds, vibrations, analyzing what effect that weather report should have on our plans, looking carefully at that windsock, talking the the pilot who touched down 15 minutes ahead iof my ETA about what runway conditions were, etc.
And, finally,when, for example , some of us request a best/maximum glide circle display moving with us on the iFly sectional screen, it' snot because we want to fly without thinking.. On the contrary , . It can be because we ARE constantly thinking about modifying our heading to stay within glide of as many viable engine-out set down spots as practical... Not flying mindlessly from A to B. ;-)