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8/12/2015 4:47 PM
 

I just transferred a flight plan using the data Interlink between my IPad Air 2 (Master) to my IFly 720 (Slave). The derived data (Est Time, Est Fuel, etc.) that appears in the Flight Plan window is based on the active Aircraft Profile. If the data displayed on the Master is based on a Mooney 201C's performance, it would be very different than the data on the Slave if it's active Aircraft Profile is a C-150. If the Mooney Profile is not on the Slave, then for the Slave's flight plan data to become realistic - i would need to stop, create a profile for the Mooney 201C, and then re-establish the data interlink.

Suggestion: Please enable the data interlink to identify the active aircraft profile being used in conjuction with the active flight plan. Enable the the interlink to add/update this profile on the Slave device.

It is assumed that the profile on the Master is always the most current for the active aircraft being used in the Flight Plan. If the it turns out that the Slave does have more accurate/current data in it's aircraft profile, then it is encumbant upon the pilot to update the aircraft profile on the Master before establishing the data Interlink.


Aircraft Ferry Services, Jonesborough TN (IFly720/Air2/Tab3)
 
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8/13/2015 4:21 PM
 

I believe that is a bug and will report to Brian and Walter. Additionally, we are discussing some options internally to help better prioritize this two way syncing of flight plans, data, etc. Stay tuned, I think we'll be able to tighten this up in the future.


Shane Woodson
Vice President | Adventure Pilot LLC.
 
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8/13/2015 5:10 PM
 

Hi Shane, I guess I missed something along the way - I thought the Interlink between the master and slave was unidirectional only. I gather from your recent response that this interface is supposed to be bi-directional. I've not seen that in my testing. I will go back and set up my test scenario and see if the slave actually passes data backup to the master


Aircraft Ferry Services, Jonesborough TN (IFly720/Air2/Tab3)
 
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8/13/2015 5:29 PM
 

It's bi-directional if both devices are connected to a common router. If one device is connected to the other's hot spot feature, then is uni-directional which, I believe, is a bug that is being worked on.

 
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8/13/2015 6:02 PM
 
Jim McWhorter wrote:

Hi Shane, I guess I missed something along the way - I thought the Interlink between the master and slave was unidirectional only.



That's the way it was working when I first started playing with this feature (and I always used it with either the wifi router in my house or the wifi "router" from my ADSB device in the plane). Was it supposed to be 2-way from the beginning, or was that an improvement added after the feature first appeared?

Haven't tried it lately, since my plane's been grounded for a few weeks.
 
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