iPad App Available for Download

The IFD540 simulator for iPads is now officially ready for customer download on the Apple Store.

We have two apps posted - one for the Americas and one for International folks.   The size of the app (due to the databases) are enormous - roughly 1 GB each.  Both are free apps.

You can search for "Avidyne" or "IFD540" and you should find two apps.  These are just for the IFD540.

You will need an iPad2 or later and iOS 6.x or later to run this.  You'll also need a little over 1GB of spare space as well.

We've run a few timing tests for various download methods and here is a set of examples to help set your expectations:

Downloading straight from the Cloud over a reliable wifi link:

Americas took just under 20 minutes to download.
International took just over 23 minutes to download.

Downloading to iTunes and then installing onto the iPad (no other data was being sync'd):

Americas took just over 5 minutes to download to iTunes and then 3 minutes to install on an iPad.

International (this was done by a different person with a different setup) took slightly less than 4 minutes to download to iTunes but then another 20 minutes to install on his iPad2.

A few operational notes once you do install the app on your iPad:

1.  In the bottom left there is a "Weather" button to slide.  The ability to slide it to the "Live" position won't be available until about 1 minute after you start the app.   It is actually connecting to live internet weather feed of the datalink products.

2.  There are some improvements we'll make on a follow-on release.  At least one of the known issues with this app is that when panning away from ownship on the map, the double tap of the glass to jump back to ownship position does not work.  Until that is resolved, you have to wait for the 20 sec timeout to automatically slide back to ownship position.

And for the inevitable "Hey, what about Android?" and "What about IFD440?" questions, both are in the works but may be a few months still until ready.

It works!

If you enter a flight plan, it repositions your airplane.

Bob,

Looks like you found an iPad sim bug.   I'll dig into it on Friday.   Thanks! (I guess.....)

I am also having the issue of not being able to save/store routes...

AviJake wrote: Bob, Looks like you found an iPad sim bug.   I'll dig into it on Friday.   Thanks! (I guess.....)

Hi Bob II,

Thanks for posting that. I too was having trouble creating and saving a flight plan on the iPad app. Until I read your post I thought it was me!

Regards,

Jim

SteveMcD,

Yikes.   We'll look at this tomorrow.    Thanks for the heads up.

I might have missed this in some other posts but I found out the hard way that the IFD 540 Simulator for the iPad is NOT compatible with the latest iOS 8.0 update for the iPad.  It just locks up at the AviDyne start up screen.  It also appears that I cannot recover back to the iOS 7.1.2 version that was compatible.  I hope the good software people at AviDyne will soon issue a release for the simulator that is compatible. 

Thanks for the quick response Steve.  I still have the PC version so it's not a huge deal.  I'll be looking for updates on the Forum as time goes by.

Does VLOC auto tuning work on the IPAD app? I have been playing around with some approaches using an ILS into KORL and it won't load the LOC frequency into the Nav frequencies. So, it will show GPS>VLOC in the mode till the FAF, then it will blink in GPS mode and stay in GPS mode. Then I get a warning that the GPS overlay isn't approved for this approach. 

OK. Glad to know I wasn't messing it up. I think the PC sim has the same issue BTW. At least the one I downloaded some time ago does.

The iPad variant update (fixes a few bugs and works with iOS8) is now available for download from the Apple store.


Edited by AviJake - 09 Oct 2014 at 4:14pm

Installed the app this weekend, will be helpful for when i pick up airplane from shop this week.

No, setup says there's 2 Gb available.

Same here.  Updated the app, and all is well.

I have run the new sim on an iPad mini retina with iOS 8.0.2 and it seems to run fine.

Makes sense, and thanks.

On the sim, is there a way I can fly the airplane via the heading bug with a direct to or flight plan in the 540 ? I can with no direct to etc but I haven't figured it out otherwise. Selecting obs or VLOC doesn't help......sometimes VLOC or obs are there singularly. I swear that I "have" flown it with the bug before with a plan in.

Thanks, I'll stop trying :-)

Anyone ?^^^^^^^

Thanks for the reply. I know it's on the "sign-up for a webinar and wait for an email" deal.. That's a pain and then to watch on an iPad it seems like you need to download an app to watch it (mine used win zip)
I'm looking to pass it along to a few folks to watch, I'm not sure they care if it's that much work :-)

We’ve seen this happen before to some folks. Deleting the App and then downloading it again seems to fix it.

If you are going to OSH, we will have Trip Taylor doing IFD540/440 training again this year Monday through Thursday 10am & 2pm. Booth 3130.

AviSimpson wrote: <span style="line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">The PC sim has been updated with the new features of 10.1. It can be downloaded here...

Yay!

* Orest

Edited by oskrypuch - 10 Jul 2015 at 3:09am