iFly GPS Forum

Been fighting with an intermittent signal lost issue. Happy to report 12 hours to/from Oshkosh last week and only one lost signal episode for about 20 seconds. Still have no clue what's causing this. Picked up an ILevel at Oshkosh after Shane discussed how solid the performance is with the iFly. "Worked" for about an hour of my return trip. Worked is in quotes because the radar display would often have lines through it, and would often disappear while zooming in/out. After the first hour it stopped working completely - iFly wouldn't connect with the iLevel. It would connect with my iPad, however. At one point i got a sectionalexe error - causing the unit to lock up - and had to totally reboot the system. Glad I still have XM weather. Sorry to say that I'm having nothing but issues with my iFly. When it works, it's a great little unit, but I spend way too much time inside messing with the cranky thing. I don't hear very many issues at all - guess I'm just unlucky. Once Skyview adds charts (September) the iFly more than likely will be coming out of the panel. I like the unit, and great folks to deal with; just can't get it to be reliable - a must for aviation use for me.

Thanks for the info, Sam. I have been turning my phone to airplane mode thinking that this may be causing my lost signal. I'm almost positive it was in airplane mode for my return flight, but did not check as part of my trouble shooting. I actually ordered a new external antenna (currently panel mounted with external on glare shield) thinking my current antenna was bad. The antenna is good however, because when I disconnect it from the back, I quickly lose some signal strength. Good thing as I never received the antenna - thank you USPS...

I plan on doing a shake down flight this week to see if I can maintain connection between the iFly and iLevel, and to see if I ever lose it on the iPad (don't think I do, however I didn't have my iPad on the whole flight last week as I usually do not fly with it. Only use it for back up charts/plates).

One thing I'm considering is if beta software could be causing issues. I became an ifly owner through the purchase of an airplane and when I first updated the unit, it said that the serial number is a beta tester. I've been using the beta since. Perhaps this is causing some of my issues..?

Jonathan,

If you don't mind, post how your shake-down flight went. I'd be interested to hear about it.

Sam