Wishlist for the next IFD software release

My understanding is that a dispute over compliance with AC 20-172A Appendix 2 was one of the core reasons that Avidyne does not call the icons I see on my IFD "ADS-B traffic" even though they source from the ADS-B data.

Always fun to have a difference of opinion with your regulating body.

FWIW, the arrow motif isn't a "Foreflight" display, just the newer ADS-B traffic representation. The diamonds are standard TCAS/TAS display, and have been around for decades.

The arrows will likely come, hopefully as just an option, in a future release.

* Orest

Here's a small wish to fit into the release plan at some point:

PeterC wrote: And I thought The path for Orest was a $100 (US) bill sent to Steve. But now it seems it won't cost anything😀 Congratulations, Orest. I think it will be a great feature.

Edited by ddgates - 02 May 2016 at 12:21pm

And I thought The path for Orest was a $100 (US) bill sent to Steve. But now it seems it won't cost anything😀 Congratulations, Orest. I think it will be a great feature.

That's the plan.

In other words, they're afraid of what might happen if we were allowed to vote for the banana.

Simpson and Steve, is there any (I really hate this word) process to get some formal input from your customers on which of the suggestions we make here are most highly thought of?  I know we fill up this wishlist topic quickly with a ton of suggestions.  

AviJake wrote: jwjenks wrote: Got any ideas about the count down timer and  allowing a user option to add it to an alert message? Wait, I may have misinterpreted.  Are you asking about the "Generic Timer" from the Timers page?   When set to "Down" and you start that countdown timer, it will issue a Cyan CAS message that says "Timer Expired" when it reaches zero time.

Re Audible alarm:  What I would like is to be able to add a beep, or tone, at the end of a count down timer.  Or what I would really like is download is what I have in my model airplane transmitter - the ability to download my own audio file;  Like:
  "Put down the gear stupid".
   Or:   "It's time to change tanks - or do you want to log glider time"?

jwjenks wrote: Any chance of allowing a user activated audible alarm?

PeterC wrote: When I am on the map page, I see category flags and I touch an airport to see information. I would find it very helpful if the pop up window had an icon for the full airport info and wx. This seems a more intuitive way rather than have to find a nearest or other key to press.

As I understand it the IFD radios are actually software-defined.  Are there enough unused DSP cycles to create a receiver instance which simply monitors 121.5 and alerts if it detects a carrier?  This would work nicely with the new quick guard frequency selection feature.

Yes, bottom right.

jwjenks wrote: Got any ideas about the count down timer and  allowing a user option to add it to an alert message?

Got any ideas about the count down timer and  allowing a user option to add it to an alert message?

I'll bet you are wired for the gray code, and the high altitude bit is only connected between the IFD and the xpdr, not to your encoder. It is not usually connected. Wiring error by your installer. It might be miswired, but even if the wiring is correct (proper gray code pins on each device) unless the encoder is connected it's a bad idea to connect the two inputs.

I can't seem to get the countdown timer listed on the right hand side of the Data block.  Is there a way to list it there?  And it would be nice if when counting down to zero it gave me an alert in the bottom right corner.
My transponder still reports I'm at 64,300' when transitioning under the JFK Bravo at 300' during high pressure (30.4" Hg).  If I turn off the IFD the transponder reports the correct altitude.
10.11 didn't seem to fix it.

For "Rubber-banded" waypoints the ability to rename them and save them as "User" waypoints would be nice. I know I can write down the Lat/Long shown for a RB waypoint and then use that to create a user waypoint but it could be a lot easier.

I would prefer having a nearest tab on the freq page.  That way we could see nearest Unicom, atis, tower, etc.  If I'm VFR and I am going to overfly an uncontrolled field, I'd like to have the Unicom freq available quickly instead of having to search for the frequency and then typing it in.  I know, I'm getting lazy now. 

If that's too hard, an alternative would be when I put my finger in the airfield on the map page and the info comes up; being able to select the freq for the field and promote it into the scratch pad

Edited by tony - 18 Mar 2016 at 10:31am

Great wish-add on.  I second that, although one could always find this on:

Edited by n7ifr - 18 Mar 2016 at 12:20am

In addition to the ability to silence the traffic alerts from a specific target, from another thread there is a request to be able to turn the traffic (display) off altogether to prevent clutter at large range views.

1.The traffic displays on both my top and bottom 540s which I wanted but is it possible to turn traffic off and on as desired.  I keep my bottom 540 on a 120 mile range and the screen is cluttered with traffic so I'd like to be able to turn it off but do not see that option anywhere.

I wonder if "OFF" could be an option added to the thumbnail view controls for Above/Normal/Below/Unrestricted.

In my mind, this mode would still provide all of the traffic alerts (maybe even with pop-up of the alert traffic*) while simply removing the routine traffic targets from the display.

So different than (and in addition to) my previous request.

David Bunin

*If pop-up of just the alerting traffic is too difficult, then I think pop-up of all traffic in the case of an alert is reasonable.

I know this has been mentioned before, but I'd like the criteria for automatic GPS>VLOC switch to be loosened up. I don't think that meeting all of those criteria represents real world flying, at least in the northeast.

While bananas are really exciting (just ask any Minion), I would be happy with functional WIFI in and out. This has been promised for a very long time....