Big regrets upgrading to 10.3

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   I resisted for years upgrading to 10.3, given everything was working great (Foreflight/ipad IFD550 Stratus), and there weren't any features that I really needed.
But I upgraded and now traffic drops all the time, datalink errors are frequent, and a big irritant, everytime you join the network on a connected device to use foreflight, you have to hit "cancel."  If you hit foreflight mode then you have to reconfigure the Avidyne.

This is ridiculous. I take from multiple forum postings I'm not alone.  

Avidyne, you fixing this most basic functonality?  Having traffic disappear is huge safety issue.

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KleyP Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2021 Location: KCJR Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote KleyP Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Big regrets upgrading to 10.3 Posted: 28 Feb 2025 at 7:09am
	I resisted for years upgrading to 10.3, given everything was working great (Foreflight/ipad IFD550 Stratus), and there weren't any features that I really needed. But I upgraded and now traffic drops all the time, datalink errors are frequent, and a big irritant, everytime you join the network on a connected device to use foreflight, you have to hit "cancel." If you hit foreflight mode then you have to reconfigure the Avidyne. This is ridiculous. I take from multiple forum postings I'm not alone. Avidyne, you fixing this most basic functonality? Having traffic disappear is huge safety issue.

KleyP Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 19 Jan 2021 Location: KCJR Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote KleyP Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Feb 2025 at 7:11am
	I should note that by comparison, my ancient and non-supported 530W and Garmin transponder works perfectly with foreflight in my other plane.

ace! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 28 Jul 2024 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote ace! Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Yesterday at 1:06pm
	What are you using for traffic? Stratus? I bought Avidyne because they advertised they could injest traffic from a Stratus. That's a false statement. Since installing, I've been lucky to get traffic about 20% of the attempts and even then I have to cycle Open ADSB off then on every 20 minutes or so to keep the traffic. The past 6 flights, I've had zero luck getting traffic on my 540. The only reason I bought Avidyne over Garmin was their claim of getting traffic from my already installed Stratus. I completely regret buying Avidyne - I should have gone with Garmin.

PA23 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 Oct 2019 Location: MMU Status: Offline Points: 331	Post Options Post Reply Quote PA23 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Yesterday at 5:00pm
	I fly two different aircraft, one of which has a transponder with ADS-B IN & OUT, the other is ADS-B OUT only. When I chose the transponder that had ADS-B in, I was very cautious to make sure I got a unit that generated GDL-90 not GDL-89 as I purposely did not want to be locked into Garmin and their ecosystem. Their stuff is nice but I think their ability to play nicely with others leaves a lot to be desired, plus their user interface is just "OK" not great but to each their own. In this aircraft I have no problems displaying traffic from this unit, however it is a certified source and the data is received via a serial connection behind the panel, and not via Wi-Fi. The other aircraft I fly has ADS-B out only so for ADS-B in I put together a StratuX device using a Raspberry Pi. The StratuX is GDL-90 and will talk to the IFD with no issue and will talk to Foreflight as well as every other EFB out on the market that I'm aware of. Prior to Covid you could build a complete StratuX unit for about $140 and about an hour of time, not sure what the parts cost now. The problem with the StratuS is the unit prior to version 3 was specifically designed to work with Foreflight and Foreflight alone, later on with version 3 and later they offered the ability to connect to other devices utilizing "open mode" aka "GDL-90", the problem is anytime Foreflight connects to the StratuS it wants to put the unit back into Foreflight mode. This is a problem between Foreflight and the StratuS and although it causes issues for the IFD the problem is not the IFD. Another comment as I don't know what else is in your aircraft, I have found that having two or more separate Wi-Fi networks in the airplane (separate meaning two or more SSID names) you will have issues if both networks are using the same Wi-Fi channel. The Wi-Fi channel used is controlled by the device creating the network, not by the clients. -PA

rolfe_tessem Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Jan 2012 Location: Massachusetts Status: Offline Points: 191	Post Options Post Reply Quote rolfe_tessem Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 7 hours 49 minutes ago at 10:10am
	Avidyne can only control its own hardware -- the fact that the IFD works with Stratus at all is kind of a bonus, but ultimately a moving target. A Skytrax 200 only costs slightly more than a Stratus and with it, everything works perfectly every time, as you would expect from a hard wired, certified piece of hardware. With the Skytrax installed, you not only get ADSB weather and traffic on the IFD, the IFD outputs it to Foreflight via wi-fi. Rolfe N1500V