A MUST have For Any Avidyne IFD5xx or 4xx User
If that’s you, you simply MUST work with this app and your CFII before trying anything in the airplane. You’ll save so much time.
Nice idea, won’t climb
I have tried to get this trainer to track the autopilot and fly an altitude. You can have it fly a heading and altitude but you can’t have it track the flight plan and set an altitude. Instructions says to set altitude to cross a waypoint, tried it.. just flys at 20 feet and tells you to pull up and it still won’t track the FMS. Good for practicing frequency changes.
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Good fidelity to actual IFD with serious usability issues
Avidyne apparently can't decide whether this is a marketing app or a training device. When trying to use it, I'm constantly getting bothered by artificial traffic, terrain alerts, etc. When trying to figure out how to load and fly an approach, I really shouldn't have to flounder around figuring out how to be at an altitude above ground, or how to position the aircraft to a reasonable starting position. I'd call it barely usable for training.
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Frustrating
Can’t fly lesson in Bauer’s book with a standard departure even though I followed each step. Would have been nice to save time/money working through scenarios on ground but too frustrating to bother using. While I like the 540 much better than my 530 the trainer app for my GNS was waaay better than this.
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Heading up not working on IFD 440
Heading up not working on map display. Always shows north up. Please fix.
Needs documentation
You can play with all the controls but there’s little to help how to set up common things like approaches.
Also not obvious how to set a start point, altitude, etc. Speed is the only obvious setting.
Also not obvious how to set a start point, altitude, etc. Speed is the only obvious setting.
Great Simulator
I’m flying with a friend who has Avidyne equipment in his Mooney and Lake Amphibian. This is very helpful.
Version10.3 IFD 540 trainer
Does not have CHARTS tab on MAPS page In navigation mode the course slider is covered up by the iPad bar and is not usable.
Can’t control simulator altitude. Demo this terrain. No documentation for app use.
The demo app, is stuck at Zero altitude, so of course it won’t work. Documentation is lousy.
Familiarity equals competence
A great tool to practice using the Avidyne kit before you jump in an aircraft. Invaluable
