iFly GPS Forum

This request will probably not be real easy to implement, so I'm not holding my breath, but would it be possible to identify specific designated airspaces (a Class B wedge, an Alert area, etc.) and tell the iFly, "Don't ever bug me about these," but still get alerts for other Class B airspaces, Alert areas, etc?

I have the same wish for the GPS lady in my phone. I want to go somewhere unfamiliar, and would like directions. But I don't need directions from my house to the freeway! I wish I could tell the GPS lady to assume I know where I'm going when I'm within 5 miles of my house, and only start talking to me after that.

Similar with the iFly. I fly around Houston, and every time I turn around I'm a few minutes away from yet another different chunk of Class B, or an Alert area, or a Class D tower, or something else.

This is my backyard, and I know all those things by heart. I don't need the iFly beeping at me four times while I'm climbing out that I'm close to two Class B regions, a Class D, and an Alert area.

But I don't want to just say "Ignore all Class B(C)(D)" airspace. If I'm flying away from home, then I generally want to be alerted. (And I certainly don't want to be routinely reconfiguring my airspace alert settings in flight!)

It'd be awesome if I could click on chunks of Class B and tell the iFly, "Never alert me about this chunk," or "give me an Alert button for this chunk, but give me a pop-up for anything else".

Thoughts?

Many thanks for the thoughtful reply, Shane.

In the Class B around Hobby, there are multiple wedges, sections, chunks, and pieces of airspace. This is no classic upside-down wedding cake...it's more like an upside-down Jenga-inspried Aggie bonfire with extra logs here and missing logs there!

When I take off from my home base, I'm under a 2000' shelf, but 5 miles west is the surface column, and 3 miles east is the 4000' shelf. If I depart the area to the west across the southern part of the class B, in a 25-mile span I cross a Class D, a 3000' class B chunk, a 2500' B chunk, another 3000' B chunk, then a 4000' B chunk before I'm finally clear.

I get alerts for all of those separate regions. And if I deviate from a straight line (which of course never happens when you're traversing a class B, right?), such that I point towards a nearby B region with a different altitude range, I get alerts for those chunks, too.

Once I've been cleared into the Houston B, I no longer care about the various chunks and shelfs. But I'll actually want to hear all those alerts when I approach unfamilar areas like Dallas or New Orleans.

You've got me excited that Version 7 might make things a lot better for me in this regard. I look forward to seeing and experiencing the new scheme!