iFly GPS Forum

So, I was flying home at night over some mountains. Lights were dimmed in the plane, and so was my tablet. The tablet was dimmed so much that the yellow Terrain warning was barely discernable from the Sectional coloring in my descent to home base, even tho I have Terrain set to flash. (Opacity set to 75%.)

Now, I know I can set an "Alert" to warn me. But 1) I hardly even notice the blue button on the left, and 2) even if I did, I have to read a bunch of text to see what the alert is about. So, frankly, as it is now, I don't enable the Alert feature

It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so how about this instead: When "Alert Thresholds" are enabled, instead of the blue button, how about if the VP pops up, full size, when you're close to terrain? After all, it's terrain that you want to avoid, and with that picture, you'll quickly see the terrain you're about to hit.

Same thinking for airspace alerts. Instead of the blue button with lots of text to read, how about if the Quick View pop up pops up in Airspace mode, showing the blue outline around the airspace that you're about to violate? You'll get the message quickly.

Update: I just noticed the new "Traffic Radar" Instrument in iFly. So it looks like the hard work is already done. So now I suggest that the Radar Instrument be "Tap-aple" like the VP Instrument, so that the Radar resizes to quarter screen on touch. And, as below, that if the user elects, the Traffic Radar instrument pops up for a traffic Alert instead of blue button text.

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Just flew with ADS-B in for the first time ever. (Stratux.) So, in addition to the two other pictorial warnings above (for terrain and airspace alerts), I suggest the obvious, ubiquitous pictorial for Traffic Alerts. A quarter screen size square box pop up, with black background with ownship in center and danger traffic in white with altitude difference. (That is, +300.) I think the old BF Goodrich Skywatch used that paradigm. (No need to show the conflicting aircraft in red - the fact that the traffic is in the warning pop up box indicates that it's close.)