IFD Trainer App for V10.3

I just updated the IFD100 trainer with version 10.3! I can’t find where that software version is available for the IFD 5xx or 4xx units. Am I missing something?

afassas wrote: Does the IFD Trainer App for V10.3 link for "documentation" give a newer 10.3 compatible version of the Pilot Guide?  Currently available web links only have the IFD4XX and IFD5XX Pilots Guide revision 07, dated April 2019, with updates to accompany version 10.2.3.1. Avidyne, please release a list of changes and updates for AviOS10.3. Avidyne, please release an updated IFDXXX Pilots Guide to support AviOS10.3.

Also note that you cannot use the new V10.3 Trainer to connect (fully) to the IFD100.  The IFD100 has to also be V10.3 to allow for flight plan transfers and since the IFD100 has to be the same version as the panel mount and since V10.3 isn't out yet...  :)

(Steve, please correct me if I have this wrong but I think that's what Tom Harper was telling me on Facebook.)

Soooo, do we forget about connecting the A100 with the new 10.3 trainer? Or, will the trainer and the 100 like each other again soon. ;-) I use (have used) the two apps to familiarize myself with loading/flying approaches with the Avidyne before I attempt them at unfamiliar airports.  This has been extremely useful particularly as I’m still learning my Avidyne 440.  BTW:  My two iPads are set to my home WiFi (worked before) and I have the current Jepp databases loaded (I don’t have the Jepp charts) and when you launch the new trainer you are no longer presented with the “Allow” WiFi/Bluetooth screen. 

Thank you for the speedy response and info.  I will look forward to the next IFD100 version release.

Edited by Utah Princess - 21 Sep 2021 at 1:07pm

chflyer wrote: I understand that the new map detail available with 10.3 is a chargeable option, which suggests that it will appear in the list of options on the AUX/SYS page. The only new option on the 10.3 IFD Trainer is PORTS which doesn't suggest that this is it. The new IFD Trainer default on startup shows the same map detail as currently. Is there a way to a) activate the higher map detail on the new Trainer and b) tell if the option is activated or not? The Trainer (old or new) doesn't allow changing the Options on the SYS page. There is also nothing in the Trainer setup under the IpadOS Settings.

AviSteve wrote: chflyer wrote: I understand that the new map detail available with 10.3 is a chargeable option, which suggests that it will appear in the list of options on the AUX/SYS page. The only new option on the 10.3 IFD Trainer is PORTS which doesn't suggest that this is it. The new IFD Trainer default on startup shows the same map detail as currently. Is there a way to a) activate the higher map detail on the new Trainer and b) tell if the option is activated or not? The Trainer (old or new) doesn't allow changing the Options on the SYS page. There is also nothing in the Trainer setup under the IpadOS Settings. Are you talking about the ability to range the map in farther (i.e. zoom closer)?  If so, that's not a paid option.  It's just part of 10.3.

eloigorri wrote: Is it possible to revert back to the old pre 10.3 trainer? Having seen the new 10.3 features l would now prefer to revert the trainer functionality in synch with the actual IFD software l am running. I saw elsewhere you were planning to split IFD100 into pre and post 10.3 versions. Perhaps this would be a route for the trainer as well for a while? Cheers. E

D-EACY wrote: Will the visual approach lateral and vertical guidance be displayed on my Entegra PFD and can i fly it coupled? (Will mechanical HSIs in older airplanes display the guidance?) In Germany/Europe we don't have standard VFR patterns like in the US, for noise reasons they are all different. So will i be able to select the final approach and then intercept it and the virtual glidepath with HDG+NAV (DFC90)

Airways wrote: In addition, will the “glide slope” display on an Aspen ?

D-EACY wrote: Thank you, Steve! Sounds great, can't wait to try it!

The visual approach feature will probably finally make me go with buying a 440. I was using the app yesterday and I can't get it to sequence properly. When I choose the visual approach and, for example right downwind, the 'gap in route' symbol appears with 'visual' written in it. A long final then becomes magenta/white and the downwind and based remain in dashed white.

D-EACY wrote: I do have the trainer already, but obviously I cannot simulate the behaviour of the IFD440+the Entegra PFD with it! So if I select the "straight in" transition I can intercept the final track with HDG+NAV and fly a coupled descent, correct?

That's because the trainer is 10.3 and the IFD100 is 10.2.  Known issue that will be resolved when 10.3 is released.

Hey Steve - this doesn’t work well in the world of software.  Consider the following scenarios: