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Bogus terrain warnings?

9/30/2012 8:08 PM

n7188u

Joined: 7/30/2012

Posts: 21

Re: Bogus terrain warnings? Modified By n7188u on 9/30/2012 8:08:52 PM

Hi,

I assume this fix has not made it to the regular i720 (non beta) users. Just checking to confirm since I have an i720 and keep getting this terrain warning messages once or twice every flight. My passengers do get very nervous every time the GPS screams "pullup" :)

Chris

2/8/2013 11:17 PM

Sam Washington

Joined: 3/15/2011

Posts: 112

Re: Bogus terrain warnings?

Hello iFly team and members,

I had an interesting thing happen with my iFly 700 on Wednesday. I took a short flight (39 nm) to drop off a friend and had the iFly set up. Everything worked fine until I started back from the destination airport. Once I took off, the unit kept flashing terrain warnings all the way back to my home airport. I finally saw that the iFly was showing an altitude of 207 feet when I was actually at 2,800 ft. Has anyone else had this or a similar experience and if so, how did you correct it. It was a bit of an annoyance constantly seeing red flashes and notices saying "Terrain" or "Pull up".

Sam Washington

2/10/2013 4:19 PM

SOM

Joined: 7/8/2010

Posts: 148

Re: Bogus terrain warnings?

Sam Washington wrote:

Hello iFly team and members,

I had an interesting thing happen with my iFly 700 on Wednesday. I took a short flight (39 nm) to drop off a friend and had the iFly set up. Everything worked fine until I started back from the destination airport. Once I took off, the unit kept flashing terrain warnings all the way back to my home airport. I finally saw that the iFly was showing an altitude of 207 feet when I was actually at 2,800 ft. Has anyone else had this or a similar experience and if so, how did you correct it. It was a bit of an annoyance constantly seeing red flashes and notices saying "Terrain" or "Pull up".

Sam Washington

I have had bad terrain warnings (2/10/13) but I didn't notice what altitude the iFly thought I was flying.

I'd like to permanently disable specific (not all) SUA warnings. If you fly near DC, you already know about them.

S. Morgan

2/11/2013 10:53 PM

drmax

Joined: 8/22/2012

Posts: 56

Re: Bogus terrain warnings?

I had bogus terrain outta my 720 this past Saturday at 3500'. It showed the entire screen as a hazzard and made the piano sound. Then it cleared up. This has happened more than once since I've had it new....Sept. 2012. DM

2/12/2013 5:27 PM

Alasdair

Joined: 10/12/2011

Posts: 411

Re: Bogus terrain warnings?

Ditto. 720. Also noted altitude reported was bogus at the time . ie couple hundred feet vs 4 thousand or so I was actually at.

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