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3/28/2019 7:37 AM
 

New to IFly - Is there a web tool, or only the Android App for planning purposes?

I've just purchased a Samsung Tab A, and subscribed to the application that seems to satisify my need for an EFB for my IFR training. Is there a web app/page, or should I do all of my planning on my Tab A?  Thank you, Jeff

 
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3/28/2019 9:50 AM
 

Since you have an Android tablet I'm going to assume you're not locked into the Apple world.  Do you have a Windows setup at home?  Download the Windows version here.  You can do your planning, creattion of flight plans, and custom waypoints on your home system and then sync them to your tablet (or vice versa).  It should also sync sketches, but that part is apparently not working.  It would be nice if they'd sync aircraft profiles, but they don't.  And lastly, it will not sync instrument layouts between dissimilar devices (home PC/laptop vs tablet). 

On your home system, assuming you have fast internet, you may also want to load all the data for the whole US, vs. a subset of just what you need locally on your tablet.  This will save a lot of space on your tablet, as well as time spent downloading the updates every so often.  You might also want to use your home system to do simulation flying of a flight plan you've mapped out: Menu | About | Start Simulation Mode.  Nice for seeing how the 3D EFIS looks and works.

Assuming you don't have GPS receiver hooked to your home system (though you could), you will receive a continually flashing No GPS Position Lock warning on your screen every time you start up.  You can click on that and disable it.  If you don't have a GPS receiver hooked up: to place your aircraft at a particular location (e.g. your home airport), and have iFly start up with the aircraft there each time, you'll want to (once) go into Flight Plan and enter a one (or more) waypoint flight plan starting at wherever you want the aircraft to be, then Close out of that screen.  [My home airport is KAWO. I just enter KAWO as the start of a flight plan then close the Flight Plan screen -- entering no other waypoints.]  iFly will place your aircraft at the beginning of the flight plan (which it always does for a newly created or loaded plan) and it will center the map there.  You can then delete your flight plan.  If ever your aircraft ends up placed at some other spot, you can do this trick again, or open any saved flight plan that happens to start where you want your aircraft to be.  [You could just save your one-waypoint flight plan as your first plan in the list by giving it a name that makes it sort to the top.]

You will also not be able to see what traffic looks like, unless you hook an ADS-B In unit to your home system and have a good location for the antennas (I'm assuming both a 1090 MHz and 978 MHz antenna).  Even then, most of the traffic you see will be airliners transmitting on 1090 (since they're high and therefore in view more).  You will see smaller aircraft transmitting on 1090 or 978 if they're closer by.  You will not see non-ADS-B aircraft unless your home is pretty close to an ADS-B ground tower *and* there's an aircraft within 15 NM of you that's transmitting ADS-B Out (triggering the ground station) *and* you're receiving the same frequencies as that aircraft.

Have fun.


Powrachute PC 2000; Aventura II; Cherokee 180
 
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3/29/2019 7:06 AM
 

Short answer, no, no web interface.

Best you can do for outside planning that syncs is the Windows application. Although I have that, I prefer to use other tools like Skyvector and FltPlan.com (which have a bit more IFR planning capability anyway, assuming you like access to recent real clearances as a guide) and the input to iFly.

 
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4/2/2019 2:25 PM
 

Excellent!  Thank you for the tip.  I now have the web tool loaded onto my computer.  Very helpful for learning.

Thank you,
Jeff

 
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4/21/2019 7:28 PM
 

I didn't even realize there was a desktop app so have downloaded to try it out.

Up to now, I've used AOPA's flight planner which allows an export of a flight plan. Once exported, I upload it to the appropriate folder on my tablet and there it is. I don't have my tablet in front of me so can't tell you which folder that is - I believe I got it off a thread on this site.

EDIT: Oh, that's not a good option. No way I'd pay for a whole extra subscription to run it on the desktop. I'll stick with AOPA.

 
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