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Saving a Flight Plan

11/10/2019 5:41 PM

Mike D.

Joined: 1/15/2010

Posts: 1213

Re: Saving a Flight Plan Modified By Mike D. on 11/10/2019 5:43:10 PM

I don't know if it will help, but I opened the flight plan files with notepad. The resulting display had several lines, but not a bunch of random confusing letters, numbers, and symbols, I could read the fixes, and tell where it started, stopped, turned, etc. Perhaps it would be as simple as changing the extension from .ifp to whatever extension the Dynon uses. Or, if you can see a Dynon flight plan file, you might be able to compare two identical (iFly vs Dynon) flight plan files and see how they differ.

11/10/2019 11:59 PM

Walter

Joined: 7/8/2009

Posts: 2778

Re: Saving a Flight Plan

The Dynon won't be able to read that file format. You can link an iPad, iPhone or any Android device to your SkyView via wifi and sync plans that way. Or you can wait a bit longer, we're adding FP importing & exporting very soon.

Thanks,
Walter

Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot

11/11/2019 8:33 AM

Andre

Joined: 2/11/2011

Posts: 191

Re: Saving a Flight Plan

Wonderful news, Walter - thank you for the suggested work-around and update!
Andre'

11/11/2019 10:06 AM

Don Maxwell

Joined: 1/13/2015

Posts: 1131

Re: Saving a Flight Plan

Walter wrote:

The Dynon won't be able to read that file format. You can link an iPad, iPhone or any Android device to your SkyView via wifi and sync plans that way. Or you can wait a bit longer, we're adding FP importing & exporting very soon.

Thanks,
Walter

Great news, Walter! I used to think there was no need for hard copies of digital flight plans--but that was before I had any experience with GPS jamming over the Chesapeake Bay that left me with no GPS signal for nearly 30 minurtes as I was heading for a narrow space between R-4007 and the DC SFRA. Fortunately, I had noted the compass heading only a minute or so before the jamming began, so I knew where to point the airplane. Otherwise, I probably would have had the company of an F-16 or two. Since then I've wanted those headings backed up on paper. That's why I hope to print directly from iFly on my iPhone to a wifi printer.

11/11/2019 7:27 PM

Cobra

Joined: 4/20/2011

Posts: 2602

Re: Saving a Flight Plan Modified By Cobra on 11/11/2019 7:28:21 PM

Don Maxwell wrote:

Great news, Walter! I used to think there was no need for hard copies of digital flight plans--but that was before I had any experience with GPS jamming over the Chesapeake Bay that left me with no GPS signal for nearly 30 minurtes as I was heading for a narrow space between R-4007 and the DC SFRA. Fortunately, I had noted the compass heading only a minute or so before the jamming began, so I knew where to point the airplane. Otherwise, I probably would have had the company of an F-16 or two. Since then I've wanted those headings backed up on paper. That's why I hope to print directly from iFly on my iPhone to a wifi printer.

That seems like a bad example. Even if you lose your GPS lock, iFly will continue to run, so you could still just pull up your flight plan and read the headings off of there the same way you would read them off a printout.

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