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3/10/2021 10:40 AM
 

I tried to get a briefing on the windows version and I get an error saying my flight time is past (earlier) than the briefing time when it is actually 2 hours in the future. Works OK on my android phone. See attached screen shot of error. Any ideas?

Thanks,

John

 
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3/10/2021 2:07 PM
 

Worked fine for me.  I filed a flight plan with a departure time a couple of hours in advance of now, and then got a briefing.

Then I found a bug: I cancelled the flight plan from earlier, then tried to file a flight plan with a departure date in January 2021 (per your posted error message), in case that's what you inadvertently did.  But it won't let me -- when I click on Options (to get to the File Flight Plan option) it pops up a dialog box asking me if I want to "cancel this flight plan online?".  Which I OK, and then it gives me an error message about cancelling it (since Leidos doesn't have an active plan).  It doesn't matter if I clear the flight plan and load a different one.  It just won't let you file.

I exited iFly and restarted.  It STILL won't let me file ANY flight plan.  Great.  How to clear this?  I went to C:\_iFlyGPS_Data\User\#FiledPlans to see if some persistent flight plan(s) is in there.  Nope.

Ahh, so I stopped trying to file these flight plans with a January 2021 departure date (letting it default to today).  Voy-lah, it will now let me file.  So the misleading error dialogs occur if you set up a flight plan with a DATE in the past.  That whole confusion, with faulty dialogs, should be "headed off at the pass" by simply error-checking the user's departure date to prevent them from entering something in the past.  BTW: it does correctly error-check you entering a TIME for today that's already passed.

I'm running version 11.1.1

OK, so it doesn't seem that you put the wrong date in your flight plan.  I figured you didn't, since the image you posted had a line in it that said the departure date was today.  But I thought I'd see if that line was giving incorrect info, since your error message says the departure date is 1/20/2021.  I also tried setting my PC date to a week ago, and then doing a filing+briefing.  (It worked fine.)

Which version of iFly are you running?  Just for grins: is the date set correctly on your PC?.  Is there anything weird about the date/time in your flight plan?  Did it file OK?

 


Powrachute PC 2000; Aventura II; Cherokee 180
 
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3/10/2021 2:57 PM
 

Hook,

I have never filed a flight plan with iFly and have no plans on file with Liedos, but I have requested the briefing.

Version: 11.1.17

Computer date and time are correct.

I agree error handling should be more robust.

John

 
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3/10/2021 3:54 PM
 

Since you didn't set the departure time (2 hours in the future) via the File New Plan dialog, you must be using the Altitude Planning dialog.  I tried messing around with departure times using that and still couldn't recreate your problem.

Have you tried getting a briefing without setting the departure date to something other than the default time? (BTW: you have to restart iFly to get it to stop using any departure time you've previously set.)

Is this a saved flight plan, or did you enter it on the fly? 


Powrachute PC 2000; Aventura II; Cherokee 180
 
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3/10/2021 6:29 PM
 
Hook wrote:

Since you didn't set the departure time (2 hours in the future) via the File New Plan dialog, you must be using the Altitude Planning dialog.  I tried messing around with departure times using that and still couldn't recreate your problem. Correct. I use the Alt Planning dialog to set the departure time.

Have you tried getting a briefing without setting the departure date to something other than the default time? (BTW: you have to restart iFly to get it to stop using any departure time you've previously set.) I pretty much always change from the default departure time. Ahh! I did not know about the restart requirement; I had closed iFly the evening before and then restarted it the next day with the flight plan still loaded. I adjusted the departure time again and still got the error. So I cleared the flight plan, shut down iFly, restarted, loaded a new flight plan manually with airports I have never been to, and got a good briefing.

Is this a saved flight plan, or did you enter it on the fly?  I have now tried manually loaded flight plans and loaded multiple saved plans now that I restarted iFly and all seems to work as it should. Even when I change the departure times I am getting a brief and no error. This makes me question the restart requirement but briefs have no easily found departure time reference, so I'm not sure about this. If I change the destination and departure time and request a brief, I get the correct brief for the amended plan.

Not sure what to think about this but until it happens again I'll write it off as a one-off. Thanks for your help.

John

 

 
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