iFly GPS Forum

I called about this issue several months ago, but it hasn't happened since, so I thought maybe it was an anomaly. Over the holiday weekend, I flew from SC to PA and back. Many times I lost all signal (have 720 panel mounted with the external antenna on the glare shield). It would not pick up a signal again until I went into the GPS menu and went through a hot start (or restart - forget the actual name). Almost immediately it picked up the satellites again - sometimes locking on for quite a while, sometimes losing signal again after a short while. It almost appears to be a software issue, as when this happens and I have to go through the menu for the hot start, sometimes the menus hang for a bit when selected....? Is there any diagnostic file that is able to be saved and reviewed?

Thanks, Ed. I'm going to do some trouble shooting tonight - thinking I may have some interference going on with external antenna routing/placement, but still odd though that it will go hours/many, many flights and be fine (and the software slow down issue that we spoke about).

Lee - would be interested in hearing about your mounting/equipment setup to see if we may have some similar scenario for possible interference issues.

Mike - not absolutely sure, but I believe you can still scroll/zoom when the signal is lost. Not 100% positive as I did not try it during the signal outage.

I am more than backed up with a 430, 496, Skyview, and Wing-X (over kill anyone... :) ) but I would be a bit more unhappy if this was my only navigator. With Walter not finding anything in the log files, I'm going to pursue the interference issue more.