iFly GPS Forum

Whenever I plug in my power source to update, my iFly 740 goes straight to the iFly GPS page vs to the selection page like it did when I first purchased it. Then I have to go to

The 740 has wifi connection issues when it maintains a list of "known" wifi access points. Try deleting all the known access points and starting over. It's frustrating but that's what I was told to do when I had similar wifi issues with the 740, and I use about 10 access points. Hopefully they're working on a firmware release to address this. The "shutdown" message seems to indicate a loose or sketchy cord or connection and is momentarily putting the 740 on its internal battery. Others have mentioned the internal battery doesn't hold a charge, and the 740 wants to power off instead of running on the internal battery (I have this issue too, to the point of having a new internal battery installed but the issue remains). In one post you've run across two of the few weaknesses of an otherwise peerless device. I've never seen the weather update issue you mention, and Mike D. told you how to fix the boot screen issue.

Not sure what you mean by "record of each flight" because I've never seen what a 495 has, but iFly DOES record the flight path of each flight. It takes a few steps, but you can upload that flight file to GPSVisualizer.com, set a few options, and it'll spit out a file that can then be tossed into Google Earth and voila - there's your flight path depicted.

A few years ago I wrote a VBA program in Excel that would process these flight logs and update my logbook. It could log the airports I landed at, determine if it was a day/night landing and how many, track day/night flight hours, and a few other things. all gleaned from the iFly log. It had a few bugs, such as if I rebooted in flight it was logged as two flights, and sometimes an outlier GPS point would get logged that put me two states over for half a second, messing up the distance traveled. One of these days I'll finish it up and share it, but I haven't looked at it in a year or so and it's not very high on my priorities.