Kudos, Jake.

Germane for me as I was unable to get the PC demo to run on any of my Windows laptops (Vista, Win 7, etc).

Looking forward to playing with this one.

Outstanding.  Now I can see (finally) what I should have soon.

Jake, are there instructions somewhere for the iOS demo?

1) can I reposition my aircraft so that I'm "flying" in familiar airspace while learning?

2) can I turn off the traffic indicators? I won't have traffic and don't want the alerts while learning

I'll have to go back and reread the IFD manual too. I'm already lost in screens that don't do what I expect them to do. For example, on MAP page, tap CHART, it shows chart for K02 (nowhere near my position). I "Select Chart", then "Select Airport", then try to enter a familiar airport identifier (CYKF). No joy. Apparently I can enter only Kxxx. If I enter anything else, it does some strange substitution to produce a meaningless (to me) three-character identifier consisting of one letter and two digits. Hopefully this is an artifact of the sim and not how the real box works.

In the PC simulator I am not having any problem with the same sequence of steps. The route is saved when the "Back to Route List" LSK is pressed, and loaded when the "Activate Route" LSK is pressed.

Any thoughts are welcome.

Regards,

Bob Siegfried, II

Sim bug? with simulator in "stop" mode I keep getting traffic alerts. I shouldn't.

Annoying: got "Datalink Data Not Rcvd". I have no idea why (I'm on Wifi), I have no idea how to fix it. Again, distracting me from my main task of trying to figure out this unit.

Bottom line: please make the sim simpler, maybe add a "dummies" mode or something. And I sure hope some additional training is available somewhere for those of us unable to attend Oshkosh, etc.

Great points.   Will make those types of improvements in the next release of it.

I'll also send a note to the training guys to see if any more training scheduled.

D'oh.

Trying to figure out if it is user error or not! 

However, it does seem as if ptlevine has found a bug in the ipad app wrt the auto-tuning and auto-switching behavior for VLOC approaches.   The actual IFD does not have the problem he notes above but the ipad app does.  We're looking into what it would take to enable that functionality in the sim.

Jake - when the app starts,  I get "Configuration Error" which does not clear.

Problem with app?  Problem with operator?

The error message is "Configuration Error IFD Requires Service".  If you start the app, but don't select Map, it doesn't pop up (until you select Map, then it does).

Regards,

Bob

Jake, my shop is delivering my airplane this Thursday with my new toys installed.

I have played with the sim.

I don't see how the crossing altitude feature works - the only altitude related parameter I see is GPS AGL, so how does a crossing altitude work.  And in that vein, being installed with Aspen PFD/MFD, does it cross feed MSL altitude?

Thanks

* Orest

Any plans to have a weekend class somewhere on using the Avidyne. I think I could get a lot more out of my unit if I knew it better. First FMS I've ever used.

Delete the old version of the simulator before downloading this new one. This new update also has the 440 simulator on it as well.

Are they 8 identical sessions, or 8 parts of one course? (Should I attend one or all?)

How much material is covered relative to available online material (videos)?

My 540 is being installed on Wed. I'd like to get comfortable ASAP so that I can file IFR with confidence.

Typically Trip covers the same material in all his presentations. What differs would be the questions that he fields at the end. He will typically stick around for a few minutes after as well.

Here is a youtube video of some training Trip did for SocialFlight on the IFD540: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMu3xXflHjM" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMu3xXflHjM  

Of course he will likely cover 10.1 features in his OSH training as well.

1) There doesn't seem to be any way to switch the simulator into IFD440 mode - update - I found it. Kill the app, open the Apple Settings app, find Avidyne IFD, change the device, restart the IFD app. Clunky!

2) The IFD440 manual says about tuning frequencies "A more automated way to tune a com frequency is to press the “FREQ” button along the right edge of the bezel." That button is on the 540 and works, but the button is absent on the 440. Twisting either of the bottom left knobs *sometimes* brings up the Airport/Enroute/Recent tabs, but not always, and I can't figure out any pattern when it works or not.

I have noticed the same behavior in actual flight for the ILS9R approach into KTMB (SR22 with Entegra PFD & MFD and STec 55X), where I must manually select VLOC as the nav source to force the system (on autopilot) to track the localizer after it has announced the "Check Navaid Identifier" message.  On these occasions, I have checked the identifier and heard it loud and clear.  Whatever I'm doing wrong in the plane I'm apparently doing in both simulators, and vice versa.

Any troubleshooting ideas are appreciated, thanks.

Its intention was to provide confirmation when you have the correct navaid tuned, automatically. It works for all VOR approaches, but the database does not include most of the LOC IDs, and that is a Jepp issue.

I have seen this, but only in that the VLOC would remain yellow. Did not see the confirmation popup. This is on version 10.1.1.

In the simulator, that would likely be a different issue, it does not tune any LOC or VORs, so you get some odd behavior at times, both enroute and on the approach.

* Orest

Thanks Orest.  I also have version 10.1.1, having just installed the IFD440.  I do get the popup advising me to check the navaid identifier when flying an ILS in the plane, after which I've learned to push the CDI button to force the system to go from GPS-VLOC to VLOC.  That VLOC indication remains yellow as you noted for the remainder of the approach, a feature that is described in the manual (all preconditions must be met for it to turn green, but navaid identification is one of those requirements).  I have also noticed that if you fail to push the CDI button before the FAF, the autopilot will not capture the glidepath, since the IFD does not switch to VLOC mode on its own in this condition.  This surprised me a few times until I figured out the workaround.

Hopefully Jepp will start putting LOC frequencies into the database soon.  Since the iPad and PC IFD simulators are using the same Jepp database and the same FMS software as the actual IFDs, that explains why the sims also show the popup and then fail to capture the glidepath on a simulated ILS (unless the CDI button is pressed to get the IFD to switch to VLOC mode despite the error message).

Yes, some of the LOCs are in the database, but not many.

Congrats on pursuing your ATP!

* Orest

In other words, it doesn't matter if the sim database is populated or not.  It's going to behave as if it never receives the radio signal...because there is no real or simulated radio signal for it to receive.

Mike