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Smartwatch support

5/11/2016 7:42 AM

Jeff Clark

Joined: 9/20/2012

Posts: 1254

Re: Smartwatch support

Unfortunately some of the options, such as suspending and reversing tiime, will not be available on certified aircraft.

Jeff Nokomis Clark, Mooney M20G, iFly app on ASUS ZenPad Z8s, ASUS ZenFone AR, ASUS Windows 10 tablet, Stratux ADS-B w AHRS

5/11/2016 10:07 AM

Frank Parker

Joined: 3/12/2014

Posts: 282

Re: Smartwatch support

Reversing time? Does that mean that time travel is now possible!!

5/12/2016 12:03 AM

Larry

Joined: 2/26/2015

Posts: 37

Re: Smartwatch support

Frank Parker wrote:
Reversing time? Does that mean that time travel is now possible!!

Well just in case I have it pencilled in on the bottom of my emergency checklist.

5/12/2016 11:16 AM

Challenged

Joined: 12/15/2013

Posts: 117

Re: Smartwatch support

For a smart watch, I could see nearest airport with direction being a nice feature, something I relegate my 496 for usually. Also, maybe automatically starting a timer at the Final Approach Fix during instrument approaches, this should be feasable with the automatic loading of waypoints for approaches in a coming release.

5/14/2016 7:22 PM

lastdeadmouse

Joined: 7/9/2015

Posts: 14

Re: Smartwatch support

I wear an android wear device and have thought about this for a while. There are already a few good options for some ancillary requests. For instance, I use an app called "interval timer" for switching tanks and it seems to work well. I think the best use case would be the notification of alerts and the ability to dismiss or acknowledge them. The problem I see, is that I, and I imagine most people, have the smart watch connected to their phone and use the tablet for navigation. I certainly wouldn't want to go through the trouble of unpairing my phone and pairing to the tablet constantly, and since we just recently got the ability to share flight plans, I think unified alerts have to be a long way off.

I don't have a solution to any of this, lol, just pointing out potential issues. I would love to be notified of traffic via a buzz on my wrist!

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