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That's happened to me every once in a while. I restart the sim and it goes away. It's never happened twice in a row.

I think the reason the sim fails is not (just) because the navaid ID is not in the database....I think it's also because there's no simulated radio signal generating morse signals for the IFD software to actually decode.

Gring wrote: Maybe it is just regionally based, but working on my ATP rating last night, the GPS --> VLOC switch happened automatically on all of the ILS and VOR approaches I did.  In general I fly GPS approaches, but the several ILS approaches I've done over my time with the IFD have switched automatically.

oskrypuch wrote:  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.

I've noticed that on both the iPad IFD440 sim and the PC IFD440 sim (both of which are the latest versions available) that when flying a simulated ILS, at some point prior to the FAF there is an alert that says "Check Navaid Identifier," which appears even though the system has automatically selected the correct ILS frequency.  Then at the FAF, the GPS-VLOC nav source indication in the upper right reverts to simply GPS.  At no point, it appears, does either simulator fly the simulated localizer.  This occurs when flying a simulated ILS 9 approach into KTNT, simulated ILS 9R approach into KTMB, and some others I've tried.  Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Having been precisely where you are, I understand the frustration. I can confirm the simulator works just fine in Parallels as well as a virtualized Win7 VM streamed via Citrix XenDesktop. Perhaps it's the host hardware or the hypervisor you're using?

Also and perhaps more importantly the simulator does a pretty good job helping you learn the basics of the interface elements. But encouragingly, I can tell you that using the hardware is much better. For example the three main buttons have a rocker element to them that is much more apparent and useful vs. the simulator. And the freq knob works somehow more as expected in flight vs what I experienced in the simulator. I replaced two 430 units with two 440s, an MLB100 and AXP340. There are some glitches but what worked before still works, the glitches are in the new features (traffic, ADS-B, etc.).

You'll enjoy the 440. I feel your pain learning the simulator, not an ideal implementation but useful enough in the end.

Edited by TomH - 24 Nov 2015 at 1:13am

I had same OpenGL problem using Windows 7 Professional. I upgraded my video driver to the latest version and problem went away.

SteveMcD wrote: Re: IFD540 training at Oshkosh, Mon-Thu 10 & 2. 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.

Re: IFD540 training at Oshkosh, Mon-Thu 10 & 2.

The PC sim has been updated with the new features of 10.1. It can be downloaded here: http://www.avidyne.com/products/ifd540/demo-sim-signup.asp

That did it - thanks!!

It doesn't seem to work at all now.

http://www.avidyne.com/support/rec-webinar-signup/login.asp

Not sure where to ask this, I didn't want to start another thread.
Steve, do you know if Tom Harpers webinar is on YouTube or somewhere else ? In it he points out some differences between 540>530. It's a little tough signing up to see the webinar and then trying to figure out how to watch it on an iPad. I'm working on converting GERMin folks over :-)

Edited by Bad1996 - 22 Feb 2015 at 10:34am

Unable, in the current version.

Great news on the Thursday pickup.

I presume you are asking about the vertical constraints associated with a flight plan.  If so, check out page 2-11 of the Pilot Guide and see if that addresses your question.

The FMS can take in baro altitude data from an Aspen and use that in certain leg types.  Check out the note on the top of page 5-4 of the Pilot Guide so you get a sense of how that is used and the impact if you don't have MSL alt.

Okay, we figured this one out.   There are two conditions to consider:

1.  You had the app, then upgraded your iPad to iOS8 and then upgraded your app to the iOS8 version (you could have also upgraded the app first then upgraded to iOS8 in that order).

2.  You did not have the app on your iPad or deleted it entirely, upgraded your iPad to iOS8 and then did a "fresh" or "new" install of the IFD540 app.

In scenario #1, you won't see any error reported and you have full functionality.

In scenario #2, you will get a yellow CAS message that says "Configuration Error"  and on the Alerts page the longer message is "Configuration Error IFD Requires Service".  It is a nuisance alert that can be acknowledged by touching the CAS message and it does NOT have any loss of functionality.  So aside from the nuisance of a CAS alert, all works fine.

We will fix a minor bug that will eliminate the error message in scenario #2 and submit to the Apple Store in the near future.

I've also had the "Configuration Error" persistent message with the new sim.  This is under iOS 8.02 with many GB of spare memory on an iPad Air.

I updated the app (IFD540 simulator) this weekend and it works just like it did before I upgraded to IOS 8.  I'm running IOS 8.02 on my ipad, if that makes a difference. 

This is the first I've heard of that report.  This was for the Americas (AM) version, correct?

Has anybody else loaded the new iOS8 version of the IFD540 sim and seen the same thing (or had success)?

I'm going to clear out my app and load it myself on an iPad later tonight to check.

Typically, that message is caused by a bad file but we've never seen that in the sim before.  Is there any chance (if you can tell) that you ran out of disk space on the iPad?  If that happended while we were copying over write data, that could cause this too potentially.

Good news Steve!  Thanks for posting.

Yes, it's true that both the iPad and PC variants have the same issue.  We're looking at trying to solve both.

Still waiting on the official release from Apple on the iOS8 version of the 540 app.  *Should* be any day but since virtually every downloadable app had to get updated for iOS8, it's taking longer than normal to get the Apple release.

So I thought to myself, "What shall I do while my iPad is updating?  I know, I'll check in on Avidyne Live."

Ouch!  My fault for failing to make a pre-emptive post. 

Yes, the iPad app for the IFD540 does not (yet) work for iOS8.   We're working on the update now and it will also resolve the 4ish known bugs with the app.