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2/11/2012 8:24 AM
 

Walter,

First off, I don't say it often enough, but I'm really pleased with my iFly. I am also amazingly pleased by the continual improvements AP makes to the software (and hardware!) so that my already-good iFly just keeps getting better over time!

That said, I've noticed a behavior that seems to happen a little more frequently than it should. I think this used to also happen on my 700, but since I no longer have that device I can't say for sure. What happens is that I'll tap the screen (on a button or menu selection), I'll get both an audible "chirp" and a visual highlight of the item I selected...

...and then nothing happens. I'll sit there staring at the highlighted menu selection, or waiting for the menu to pop up, and eventually realize, "Oh...it didn't take," and I'll tap the screen again.

This seems to happen rather frequently. Maybe 1 out of 20 taps-ish? At any rate, in a five minute period of bouncing through menus looking at STARs for an airport or looking at all the setup screens, it will happen 2-3 times.

Oddly, I have never noticed a "missed tap" when using the keyboard to enter flight plan waypoints. I've only noticed it when navigating menus inside the navigation app.

It's a minor issue, and certainly easy enough to work around (just tap the screen again), but it seems like an obvious bug and something that's fixable. (After all, the unit is clearly feeding back that it felt my screen tap...it just occasionally decides to be ornery and not to do anything with it!)

Am I the only one to ever notice this, or just the first one to mention it on the forums?

 
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2/11/2012 10:18 AM
 

Me too, on my 700, well put and exactly as you described. Input "registers," but no action taken. Irritating, especially when also aviating! Too bad the new unit also has this issue. I believe if I use my finger nail as opposed to finger tip (as suggested by Ed Moore) this may happen less. Oddly, it never occurred to me we might not have to just live with this.

 
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2/11/2012 10:48 AM
 

Ditto here on my 700. Seems to be worse around the edges, despite occasional re-orienting (?) of the screen. Still love my iFly, though.


Robert Szego
Bellanca-Champion Club http://www.bellanca-championclub.com
Aeronca Aviators Club http://www.aeronca.org
 
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2/13/2012 12:03 PM
 

Forgot last post, but this is the same issue as mine. When tapping toward the top of the screen (about the first 3/4"), I get the little bubbles that indicate something is happening, but no joy.


Robert Szego
Bellanca-Champion Club http://www.bellanca-championclub.com
Aeronca Aviators Club http://www.aeronca.org
 
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2/13/2012 6:00 PM
 

Try using a plastic ball-point pen with the tip retracted. Like a stylis. That works well and it's much more precice then my fat finger tip. Solved the problem for me.

 
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