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Increased search ability

4/25/2016 9:32 PM

lastdeadmouse

Joined: 7/9/2015

Posts: 14

Increased search ability

One thing I'd like to see is a more robust city search. Say I have to fly for a meeting in Orland Park, IL tomorrow, which has no airport of it's own. I'd like to be able to quickly type "Orland Park, IL" and have it return a list of nearby airports and fixes, likely sorted by distance so I could quickly and easily do some pre planning.

I understand that it may be a difficult task to store so much data locally (though it is possible for like a portable car gps), but even if the option were available while connected to the internet before leaving, it would be really helpful.

4/26/2016 10:37 AM

Shane

Joined: 4/21/2010

Posts: 1709

Re: Increased search ability

Noted for the Wish List. This has been a bit of a sore spot with us as it is more difficult than thought of. The FAA does not force an airport to be listed in the database under the actual city location. It may not even be in a neighboring city, but a large metro many miles away.

Many smaller city airports are listed under large cities. Example our own airport McKinney Nation is listed in the database under Dallas, TX, 30 miles away, not McKinney. This is actually pretty common as they try to leverage themselves to get more commercial metro traffic.

I'm sure there is some logic that can be improved here and we'll dig into it for a future release consideration. Thanks for the suggestion.

Shane Woodson
Vice President | Adventure Pilot LLC.

4/26/2016 11:48 AM

Jim_W

Joined: 5/4/2011

Posts: 334

Re: Increased search ability

Why not just look at the sectional and see what airports are close to your destination? Lewis University Airport looks like a good prospect for you. - Jim Williams

4/26/2016 6:48 PM

Jeff Clark

Joined: 9/20/2012

Posts: 1254

Re: Increased search ability

A quick and dirty way to do this now (well maybe not so quick), is to put your destination in the center of the screen and tap menu / About / Start Simulation Mode. Then you can tap the NRST button, and the closest airports are listed.

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

4/26/2016 9:34 PM

Joined: 1/1/0001

Posts: 0

Re: Increased search ability Modified By on 4/26/2016 9:42:33 PM

Jim_W wrote:
Why not just look at the sectional and see what airports are close to your destination? Lewis University Airport looks like a good prospect for you. - Jim Williams

I agree. I would not want to see IFly loaded up with a bunch of non-aviation data and information. If you're going some place you have no idea where it is and there is no airport, google it or use you cell phone GPS to figure out where it is. Then, look at a sectional for near-by airports. The more information and data that is added increases storage requirements, download time, and processor demand.

I just flew 4 hours today from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale with a friend. I was using IFly on an IPad Mini 4 and he was using FltPlan on an IPad Mini 2. IFly is so much more intuitive and easy to operate, there was no comparison.

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