IFD 5 Series & IFD 4 Series Touch Screen GPS/NAV/COM

iFly EFB integration with IFDs

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Topic: iFly EFB integration with IFDs

Posted By: MysticCobra
Subject: iFly EFB integration with IFDs
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2023 at 11:19am

For anyone who uses the https://iFlyEFB.com" rel="nofollow - iFly EFB (formerly iFly GPS) software on a phone or tablet device, Adventure Pilot (the company behind iFly) is currently working to add integration features with the IFDs. Right now they're only releasing Android builds for testing, but the intention is to make these features available on iOS devices as well.

If you'd be interested in helping with beta testing the software, please submit a request to join the Beta Team, here: https://www.iflyefb.com/SUPPORT/Beta-Team-Request" rel="nofollow - https://www.iflyefb.com/SUPPORT/Beta-Team-Request

Also, please head over to the iFly forums ( https://adventurepilot.community.forum/" rel="nofollow - https://adventurepilot.community.forum/ ) and create an account, and start a "Conversation" (private message) to me ("Cobra") there.

Features they're working to implement include:

Uploading a Flight plan, along with Custom Waypoints that are a part of this flight plan.
Downloading a Flight plan (from Avidyne to EFB), along with Custom Waypoints.
Getting Ownship Location/Alt/Speed/Course from Avidyne.
Reading ADSB data from Avidyne

The first beta version they released for testing had some trouble connecting to the IFD and staying connected, but they're about to drop another test version to address those issues this week, and add the features listed above.

Replies:

Posted By: MikeS
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2023 at 8:59pm

I'm interested.

Once there's enough confidence in the interface to take it to market, let's do a webinar. Thousands register for our webinars, and thousands more watch after they are posted to our various social channels.

We're all about promoting all of the 3rd party apps that integrate with us.

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Mike Salmon
Technical Marketing Manager
Avidyne Corporation

Posted By: skitheo
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2023 at 11:15am

Any progress to report?

Posted By: MysticCobra
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2023 at 3:39pm

skitheo wrote:

Any progress to report?

Their goal is to release to production within the next few days, so they can show it off at Oshkosh.

I've done a lot of testing with an Android tablet and IFD 10.2 software and I think it's pretty solid now. The dev is using the IFD trainer app which is 10.3 based and says it's very stable, so hopefully it's good to go.

A release candidate has just been released for Android, Windows, and iOS testing. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of Avidyne owners in the iFly beta test cadre, so this feature may not get as much testing as they'd like before it's released, but they can make updates pretty quickly if bugs are reported.

Posted By: MysticCobra
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2023 at 10:32pm

iFly EFB v12.2.19 for Android and iOS (and 12.2.20 for Windows) has been released, which includes Avidyne IFD integration. Details are here:
https://adventurepilot.community.forum/threads/ifly-efb-12-2-19-released.177/post-1669" rel="nofollow - https://adventurepilot.community.forum/threads/ifly-efb-12-2-19-released.177/post-1669