Be sure to tell us what you find out.

Looks like you go to External Devices, and just select the IFD?

Will try it this afternoon.

Did you ever connect your Android FltPlan Go to your IFD540? I tried a couple of times with no luck. Haven't seen any instructions on how to do that.

Thanks,

Theo

I had mine connected to the NGT last night and saw lots of great info. Nice to watch the airliners 20kft above flying over on your map. To say nothing of weather info.

No, I have an AXP322, remote mounted.

I have no ADS-B IN presently, and may not get any. I have weather through XM, and TAS605 for traffic.

Reportedly the IFDs will be able to function both as a hotspot, and as a client. So if you do have an ADS-B IN device acting as a hot spot, that should work, with 10.2.

* Orest

Where do I find the WiFi password documented?

Below is an overview of what the user sees when (after connecting to your unit in the device Settings) they open our app and tap the External tab to connect to Avidyne:

 

·         They will see a red message flash (usually to quickly to read) saying “iPad GPS or ADS-B disconnected”

·         Then a green message flashes saying “Connected to Avidyne” (again very brief display)

·         At this point they will see a green indicator next to the word Connected

 

The user shouldn’t need to do anything else at this point to receive the GPS data as long as the iPad is set up with Location Services enabled and our app has Display Ship Position enabled (default in our app).

 

There’s also a button on the External tab at the top of the right column that toggles the use of the Avidyne GPS and the iPad internal GPS.  The default is going to be to use the Avidyne’s GPS.

Additionally, we will be creating more detailed instructions for using Avidyne avionics with the Go app in the very near future.

 

We’d be happy to assist the customer directly and cc you on the correspondence if that helps.

You can have the customer write to either mailto:tech@fltplan.com" rel="nofollow - tech@fltplan.com or support@fltplan.com%20" rel="nofollow - support@fltplan.com .

That is info for the Ipad app, so translates only loosely. In the android app on the external devices page there is a list of possible connections, and you have to select Avidyne. You then leave that tick box selected.

Wifi to the IFD does have to be explicitly connected first.

* Orest

You were correct. You do have to wait for the app to connect for a long time. Tried it out in the hangar last night. I gave up and shut down master, looking down at the tablet just in time to see the FPG Externals screen change from "Connected" back to "Connecting". 

Bummer. Didn't have a chance to see what information I could get from the IFD. From what I understand, it's just position and flight plans. 

Thinking I'll connect the IFD to get the flight plan and then switch back to the NGT for the rest of the flight for updates. Hope the 10.2 release will allow the IFD to receive FIS-B in addition to TIS-B from the NGT via WiFi. I wonder if it will pass through the data to a mobile app?

BTW, Steve, thanks for passing along the info from FltPlan.com support. I'll email them.

Thanks again Orest,

Theo

With 10.1.x you can connect, get a GPS location, and download the active IFD flightplan to your tablet. 10.2 introduces two communication, so a lot more will be possible then, and ADS-B data flow is apparently on the plate as well.

* Orest

BTW, the IFD540 was a huge risk reducer flying into southern Oregon mountains at night having never flown in the area. Definitely reduces workload and uncertainty. 

I was flying with the IFD connected to FltPlan Go on my Android yesterday.  It seemed like it was connected to Avidyne just fine (there was a short period of time when the position stopped updating while I was on approach) but I was able to sync the flight plans - usually.  What I found is that if I didn't actually change the flight plan, but instead hit direct to a future fix on the IFD, FltPlan Go would not accept this change.  I could hit the double arrow box, but it was not responsive to downloading from Avidyne.  It was as if the download from Avidyne button was not active, it wouldn't respond to touching it, only closing the dialog box responded.  I was getting GPS updates during this time.  I'm wondering if this is because the flight plan didn't actually change?  I'm not sure if there was something more to this.

Once that is turned on, you need to make sure that wifi and/or bluetooth are on from the user options aux page when in flight mode.  See pages 4-37 through 4-42 of the pilots guide (http://www.avidyne.com/files/downloads/600-00300-001-draft.pdf).

Once that is enabled, from your device, you need to connect to the Avidyne network, see page 1-44 of the pilots guide.

Once that is done, from inside Fltplan Go, you go to external and select Avidyne and it should connect.

Once you show you are connected on the external page, to download the route from your IFD, go to route on the maps page (of your tablet) and you'll see a blue box with white arrows.  Hit that and it will give you the option to download the flight plan from Avidyne.  Currently this is a one way manual download, not an automatic sync.  This will be improving with new software versions from both Avidyne and FltPlan.