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Bug in your application:
iFLYGPS falsely reports "NO PIREPS IN VICINITY" when there are several PIREPS in the last 20, 30, and 50 minutes. i.e. stating unforcasted turbulance 2000ft above my airport.
Passive Aggressiveness:
Instead the PIREP page should state: "This feature only works when Cellphone, Network, and ADSB signals are all actively being received at the same time on the 60th day of a leap year." (I'm asking forgiveness for this passive aggressiveness rather than deleting it, because I'm at the point of despiration and I need you to be there, emotionally speaking, for me). Perhaps you should just remove PIREP from the app, and don't advertise that you have it until you actually get it working. (From your features page: "on the ground with Wifi or in the air with ADS-B (FIS-B Weather). Live NEXRAD, METARs, TAFs, Winds Aloft, Lightning, PIREPS and more.")
Constructive comments:
- Data retreival and expiration: Handle retreiving and stale-dating pirep data exactly the same way you do METARs so you don't confuse us.
- Display on map: If you don't have code for placing a pirep icon outside of an Airport Location, then use your code for displaying airmets to draw a small boundry box around the airport to indicate that there is a pirep in the area. At first displaying pireps with, or as a type of, airmet was a despirate suggestion, but I primarily look at pireps to see if the airmets are blowing FU (airmet smoke) at me or if they are actually accurate (...do I get points for combining abbreviated slang, an airmet reference and a Homonym all at once? I hope so. I'm really trying here...)
- Interpreting Text: Raw text for now. Interpretting it will require additional QA time that you can do later. Hard to read information is better than false information(see passive aggressiveness).
If you're not going to show a PIREP because of a software environment condition, then say so on your PIREP screen. It can be dangerous to state that a "PIREP doesn't exist in your area" when you are either not checking, or you have a serious bug in your code.
I accidentally posted this exact same text in the wishlist forum, but this is NOT a new feature it is a bug in the current app that needs to be addressed.
https://www.iflygps.com/Support/Forum/forumid/8/postid/39880/scope/posts#39880
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