IFD 100 first impressions

My bet, based on my experience is that they are counting devices.  That likely will create a problem.  

I've installed the IFD100 and the IFD Trainer on two iPads. I went through the Jepp download on all four of them. My device count in my Jepp account still just shows 1 used, which is my IFD540.

I'm also running 10.2.1 and both the IFD Trainer and IFD100 are in the list under Settings. Sometimes it takes a bit of time for all the apps to appear if you have a lot. The list is alphabetical, so both apps are together under IF...

This is probably a dumb question but where does one find the IFD100 users guide??

I couldn't  determine a way to change the UTC offset so all my ETA times were off by 4 hours. The UTC offset option is visible but disabled (dimmed out) on the user setup page. 

Nevermind. I left both apps open long enough that they finally connected.

I closed all other apps, including Foreflight, on both devices. Nothing happened. After a while the iPad running IFD Trainer went to sleep. When I woke it up it "chimed", and the two connected. Maybe IFD100 needs to be open before opening Trainer.

I've had the same sleep issue with JeppFD charts on the ipad, and the only solution I found was to turn off the auto lock.

Glad to see IFD100 out, but agree, still very "buggy":

Thanks Gary

I had the same problem. After struggling with it a bit, I switched iPads. In other words, I started out with the Trainer on the Mini and the IFD100 on the Pro 9.7. They wouldn't connect. Then I shut everything down and started again this time with the Trainer on the Pro and the IFD100 on the Mini. They connected but not everything worked. Whatever what happening on the Trainer was mirrored to the IFD100. But when I made commands on the IFD100, nothing happened on the Trainer.

AviSimpson wrote: There are some restrictions that some LAN have that might inhibit the connection between the two apps. I am waiting to have a recommended LAN setting before I send a configuration recommendation.

Besides being retired air traffic controller of 27 years, I have a software company that writes tax collection and other software for government agencies.  We also build all of our own hardware so I'm pretty savvy around networks.

We do a lot of VPN connectivity so my modem is in bridge mode and the VPN Router is behind it.  DHCP is handled by the VPN router.  My wireless is run separately by a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 router running as an access point.  Wireless access is secured by WPA2-PSK [AES].

Any thing else I should look for?  I left them both on and connected to the WiFi last night for a couple of hours.  Today I tried again, no dice and same errors.  I completely closed the app and restarted therm in varying order also.

IFD100 App still very Buggy!:

Simpson:

Edited by ddgates - 31 Mar 2017 at 6:36pm

AviSimpson wrote: Do you have a Stratus laying around? Easiest way to get around all this, power up the Stratus, connect the trainer and IFD100 apps to that network and it should be working as advertised.

Unfortunately the Stratus II is mounted on the rear equipment shelf under the baggage bin with antennas in the rear window.

The airplane is still in the shop getting 10.2 and the SkyTrax100 installed.  They said that the install was completed today, the test flight went great, and I can have it back on Monday.  Woo-Hoo.

When flying with the IFD 100, it seems to perform as expected, except 1) traffic is not showing on the IFD 100 and 2) when I go to the charts, I get a message " chart initiation failed." I do have all the current NAV data loaded onto my iPad. Does anyone know if approach charts should display on the IFD 100? Tech support is helping with the traffic issue.

teeth6 wrote: When flying with the IFD 100, it seems to perform as expected, except 1) traffic is not showing on the IFD 100 and 2) when I go to the charts, I get a message " chart initiation failed." I do have all the current NAV data loaded onto my iPad. Does anyone know if approach charts should display on the IFD 100? Tech support is helping with the traffic issue.

I spoke to Jepp and got an "interesting" answer as to why I cannot download charts onto my IFD 100.  They are telling me I have a 540 "suite" subscription but would need a 540 "suite PLUS" subscription to be able to download charts to the IFD 100.  I was under the assumption that the IFD 100 would be like having another IFD and be able to receive all the subscriptions I pay for in my panel mounts?

Thanks Simpson for response.

Edited by n7ifr - 07 Apr 2017 at 10:15am

Been using the IFD100 running on an iPad mini with the IFD Trainer app running on an iPad . I have a couple of questions I have not yet seen discussed:

Is there a quick way to insert checklists or checklist items created or even quickly clear an entirely completed checklist on the IFD100? Without the IFD knobs, these quick features seem to have been lost. I have found that restarting the IFD100 app resets all of the cleared checklists; however, I have not found a way to insert a new checklist or checklist item without having to retype all the checklists or items from the insert point and lower.

Connected to the IFD trainer app through Wi-Fi, the IFD100 MAP - SVS ownship symbol is fixed and does not change orientation with climbs/descents/turns as on the IFD540 app. Has this behavior also been observed in actual operation?

IFD100 App has been updated to 10.2.2

Showed up as an update as posted.

Good idea. FF supplies that battery information