10.2.3.1 update PIREPs

50 minutes from start to finish of upgrade from 10.2.0.0.A. A&P assisted owner install. Used GPU. 1 hr of prep/backup, 20 minute config check and WiFi setup. Will fly soon.

Really like the dynamic WiFi config swap!

Rolfe

:)

+ config error

 I am still not getting traffic or weather in ForeFlight.   When I look under devices in FF, it says it is connected to the IFD for GPS, Flight Plan Send / Receive.   

I have seen a couple of issues with the IFD100 and FF one of which existed before but I thought it was to be fixed in this release.  The ETA at destination on the datablock of the IFD 100 is off by 4 hours which is the Zulu variation in my area.  This was a known issue but apparently it was not addressed yet.

The other thing I noticed is that the altitude of other aircraft appear correctly on the IFD 100 but are way off when the altitude comes over to FF.  See these 2 images taken at the same time.   The IFD 100 shows N142BF to be 100 feet above me but on FF it is shown as being 3310 feet above me.  There is also a large discrepancy for N953AZ.  I'm not sure if this is particular to my installation as I had a problem with my Icarus altitude in the previous release.

That article on the ForeFlight support site is left over from 2017. It's way out of date.

Here's the latest article on their site, dated April 10, 2019: https://www.foreflight.com/support/support-center/category/about-foreflight-mobile/218282278

Mike

See the attached screen shot.

Mike

No, the Stratus was off for the whole flight. I hope I can keep it that way.

Mike

I don't know if my GPS info is coming from the iPad GPS, from the IFD, or from extraterrestrials following me in their invisible spaceship. I just know that things seem to be working. I'm happy.

We installed the IFD540 and the MLB100 in our C182 four years ago. Now I finally have what I'd hoped for then: Full weather and traffic on the IFD and on ForeFlight with no Stratus clamped on the window. It took a little longer than expected but I'm not complaining.

Mike

I noticed the same 3300' altitude for all traffic on FF on iPad.  This is corrected by going to FF "devices".  This will show two sources: Avidyne & ADSB (probably your MLB/Skytrax100).  Tap the "ADSB" and turn off the GPS - there is no internal GPS, but FF interprets some weird fixed altitude (3300').

Once this is OFF, all is good on target altitudes.

Tom W.

I got the confit error in the IFD100 after updating both my IFD540 and the app. I have the app on two separate iPads, and both had the error. The IFD100 also failed to show my fuel information. The fuel screen had dashes for all the numbers.

I was able to fix the problem by completely uninstalling the IFD100 app from both iPads and downloading it again, and reinstalling the Jeppesen databases. After I did that, I got a ,essage on the IFD100 that said something like “Config Updated”. The Alert on the Aux screen said to restart the IFD100. After I did that, everything seemed to work as expected.

I also had some issues on FF that were fixed by going to Devices in the FF and turning off the GPS under the ADS-B device. FF then used the IFD GPS for position information.  I have an Avidyne MLB100 ADS-B receiver. 

Everything seems to be working as expected now. 

I still get a Traffic Degraded message on the traffic thumbnail of the IFD540, but I believe that is an issue addressed by a service bulletin on the MLB100 that requires a different setting. It is covered under warranty. I need to go to my avionics shop to get it taken care of, because I don’t have the tools to access the MLB100. Traffic and weather display fine on the IFD540 and FF. I didn’t check the IFD100 and I haven’t seen any actual problems caused by the alert. Traffic seems to be about the same as I receive with my Stratux box, when I switch Foreflight over to it.