?My iFly 720 bit the dust as well and I wasn't willing to put $$ into a unit that seemed to have chronic problem. Had numerous issues with it in the short time I had it. When it crapped out, I went up the ladder at the company a bit and asked for some consideration on the pricing if I traded the 720 that had chronic problems from day 1 for an iFly 740. They did give me a discount toward the 740 somewhat better than the trade-up they were offering at the time. The 740 has worked flawlessly, has a brighter screen, much improved wifi, boots much faster, has 30 minutes of backup battery, etc. It is simply a much more robust unit. I do carry an Android as a backup and often run them side-by-side for comparison. While the iFly 740 is preferable over my Android and clearly superior in a few areas, it isn't by much.
-Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM ? ------------------------------ Sent:?Saturday, May 07, 2016 at 9:00 PM From:?"Mark Langford via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> To:?KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> Cc:?"Mark Langford" <ml at n56ml.com> Subject:?Re: KR> MGL and the new instrument panel For that matter, I just got my iFly 720 back in the mail for the second time in two years with maybe 250 hours of use on it. I "bricked" it doing a routine software update just before the Chino Gathering, and the touch screen went south recently, requiring a new one for $120. The software is superb and vastly intuitive, but the hardware has reliability issues. The lack of an internal battery is unforgivable. Compare the old iPad2, which is pretty robust (it stood up to many years of use by my teenage daughter before I inherited it), which has bluetooth and wifi built in and is half as thick with a screen twice as big, has a battery that lasts for many hours (for years), and can be bought used off of ebay for under $100...and it runs the iFly software perfectly. Add a Stratus ADS-b coupled to it, and my old EIS engine monitor, a Trutrak autopilot, an altimeter and airspeed steam gauge, and I'll be quite happy. That's my next instrument panel. See enclosed image... Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com
