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6/16/2014 11:03 AM

Walter

Joined: 7/8/2009

Posts: 2778

Re: Clock

The date/time automatically syncs with the GPS signal, so a lock is required to get your initial time set.

Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot

6/23/2014 12:07 PM

citabriabob

Joined: 4/14/2010

Posts: 156

Re: Clock

Modified By citabriabob on 6/23/2014 12:07:49 PM

Went flying yesterday; 720 was updated night before, but not flown for a week or more.

Clock was again off by about 3 hrs. Exited application and looked at settings. Time zone was correct, but Daylight time was not checked; daylight had been on since April - could the updates have turned it off???

About 45 minutes into the outbound leg, I turned off power for about 30 seconds and when it came back, it read correctly.

This is getting old....

Robert Szego
Bellanca-Champion Club http://www.bellanca-championclub.com
Aeronca Aviators Club http://www.aeronca.org

6/28/2014 1:06 PM

Mark Stefanov

Joined: 1/3/2010

Posts: 61

Re: Clock

I think I was in this thread before. I had to update this morning using the zip file method. I attached my external antenna before it. When I got done the time was correct. This is the first time in a long time?

Mooney M20E

7/1/2014 1:33 PM

David

Joined: 1/3/2011

Posts: 521

Re: Clock

Modified By David on 7/1/2014 7:23:24 PM

More problems with my '720 GPS date. While flying this morning I again noticed the METAR's were over 7500 minutes old, so I exited the iFly software and found the device date to be showing Tues, 6/24, with the correct time of day. I had to reboot the iFly device to get the date to correct. I had solid GPS lock with WAAS, and tried both internal and ADSB GPS before resorting to a reboot.

This seems to be happening with increasing frequency, sometimes it's just the date, and sometimes it's the date and time that are incorrect. (Running current production software.)

Is this possibly a hardware problem? I never saw this with my '700, or in the first year with my '720.

David

C177RG: iFly 720, Stratux 978/1090 ADS-B in, AHRS, BMP, Stratus ESG ADS-B out. RV-3: 8" Samsung Tab A, Stratux 978/1090 ADS-B in, AHRS, BMP, Stratus ESG ADS-B out.

7/3/2014 9:30 AM

Shane

Joined: 4/21/2010

Posts: 1709

Re: Clock

David,

By chance do you have your 720 set to automatically boot to Navigation Mode. I've seen this before where the Nav starts before the system time is updated completely. A reboot fixes it or simple letting it boot to the Main Screen and then touching Navigation seems to help as well. There was some logic added to help this, but it is not working correctly.

In the next software update, we are adding some logic to better resolve this. Nothing is wrong with your hardware, it is a software bug. I hope this helps and have a great July 4th weekend.

Shane Woodson
Vice President | Adventure Pilot LLC.

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