? ? Sent:?Monday, June 13, 2016 at 11:23 AM From:?"Mark Langford via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> To:?KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> Cc:?ml at n56ml.com Subject:?Re: KR> Ifly 720 Brian Kraut wrote:
> Ifly 720. I powered it up over the weekend and noticed that it > took probably a minute or so to boot up and operation seems to not be > very fast on it. I kind of expected that on their dedicated hardware > that it would zip right along or at least run as good as it does on my > phone that is also running 100 other processes at the same time. I also > noticed that the touch screen requires a harder touch than my phone or > tablet Right on all counts! Mine probably takes well over two minutes to boot, and the touch screen isn't as sensitive as in iPhone, which may be by design. And the absence of an on/off switch is unforgiveable, as is the absence of at least a tiny battery to get you through cycling other power on or off for a few seconds. The other biggie is the super glossy screen. It just doesn't work well in a plane with a canopy. I had to buy another touch screen for mine for $120 after relatively little usage, but the previous one had a non-glare sheet over it. I may have even bought the non-glare thing...I forget, but I'm looking for another one now. Other than these nits, it's a great unit, but the conclusion I've drawn is to run it on an iPad, which can be bought used for under $100, and you get the best of both worlds. iPad hardware is pretty dang reliable and trouble free. I'm using my daughter discarded after many years of hard use, and everything on works like the day it was new. And what a battery... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL ML "at" N56ML.com www.N56ML.com[http://www.N56ML.com] --------------- I had the exact same issues with my iFly 720. Painfully slow boot up. Insensitive screen. Mine also needed the screen recalibrated regularly. I liked their software, but the 720 unit seemed to have a few problems. Mine finally lost it's mind about a year ago and needed the OS to be flashed onto it again. I asked them to make me a deal to trade for an iFly 740. All of those issues were addressed in the iFly 740. It boots fast. Has a much brighter screen that is more sensitive than the 720, but not overly sensitive like my Android unit. And it has an internal battery that will run it for ~15 minutes. And the WiFi on the 740 seems to work much better. I also fly with an Android running the same iFly software. I find it to be a bit overly sensitive when I'm flying in rough air, so it's easy to get the wrong things keyed in. It's not nearly as bright as the iFly 740, but about the same as the iFly 720. The android also seems to be susceptible to RF interference that knocks the WiFi off line, so it drops the connection to my ADS-B gear. Yesterday, the Android overheated and shut down for ~30 minutes while sitting in the same bright sunlight right next to my iFly unit, so I would say the iFly unit is a bit more hardy in real world environments. I never had my iFly 720 or 740 shut down due to heat, but the Android has quit twice requiring it to cool for about 30 minutes in front of a vent and out of the sunlight before it was functional again. -Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM
