alternative to iGlide for iPhone (6 plus)

Once again, I am thoroughly amused! Thank you!

Again, Bob vigirously attacked iGlide claiming it was essentially awful software. I asked Bob to substantiate that claim and explain his comments (bugs). He failed to do so. In fact he refused even though he also claimed that Butterfly acknowledged several of his "bugs." I summarized this for the thread readers and have (along with others) defended iGlide from a clearly unsubstantiated and baseless attack. This threads author clearly provided us all with "a work of utter fiction" at best. At worst...

Now I have some other clown calling me a sociopath? I see that as pure victory. :-)

Obviously, I have struck the "proper" nerve with simple, clear and fact based responses to Bob's highly questionable statements about iGlide.

The fact is that iGlide is not "riddled" with bugs at all. It's among the very best soaring navigation applications available for any platform.

End of discussion. Moving on.

My own iGlide experience came about from being an eeejit. I left my Oudie 3 at home (a country different to my gliding location/s) and wanted a cheap stand-in to use in a club glider for a 500km task. For me, iGlide worked really well. It logged the entire flight, uploaded to OLC directly as well as emailing the file in both .igc and .kml formats to myself. It also synced with the iPad version via Dropbox. The iPhone was held in a suction mount in vertical orientation and was always readable, no washout in the sun. I use an iPhone 5 and the screen could do with being a little bigger (# of nav boxes are limited). An iPad mini would be too big unless panel mounted.. An iPhone 6 would be better and a 6+ great. UI is intuitive and easy to use. I used it without the local TP's because unlike maps and airspace, they can only be loaded via iTunes and I was without my laptop too. Task creation isn't difficult, you can choose your type of OZ and there are some great rubber banding options for modification (like Oz Runways, ForeFlight Mobile, etc). Overall, a good product! It certainly saved me from 'map and compassing' my way around!

I post this from the perspective of a computer literate glider pilot (yes, one of the 12 :P ) and low glider time, high powered time. It was a competitive flight but not a competition (ie. only amongst friends)

CJ - B3

Great review! I would only ask about battery life with respect to
flight time.

On 5/16/2015 8:37 AM, wrote:
My own iGlide experience came about from being an eeejit. I left my Oudie 3 at home (a country different to my gliding location/s) and wanted a cheap stand-in to use in a club glider for a 500km task. For me, iGlide worked really well. It logged the entire flight, uploaded to OLC directly as well as emailing the file in both .igc and .kml formats to myself. It also synced with the iPad version via Dropbox. The iPhone was held in a suction mount in vertical orientation and was always readable, no washout in the sun. I use an iPhone 5 and the screen could do with being a little bigger (# of nav boxes are limited). An iPad mini would be too big unless panel mounted. An iPhone 6 would be better and a 6+ great. UI is intuitive and easy to use. I used it without the local TP's because unlike maps and airspace, they can only be loaded via iTunes and I was without my laptop too. Task creation isn't difficult, you can choose your type of OZ and there are some great rubber banding options for modification (like Oz Runways, ForeFlight Mobile, etc). Overall, a good product! It certainly saved me from 'map and compassing' my way around!

I post this from the perspective of a computer literate glider pilot (yes, one of the 12 :P ) and low glider time, high powered time. It was a competitive flight but not a competition (ie. only amongst friends)

CJ - B3

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Dan Marotta

iGlide loads turn points just fine using Dropbox - you don't need iTunes. To do it, activate Dropbox (menu|interfaces and sensors|dropbox sync). Then on your PC move your waypoints into dropbox/apps/iglide/wpt.

-John, Q3

On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 10:37:28 AM UTC-4, wrote:
I used it without the local TP's because unlike maps and airspace, they can only be loaded via iTunes and I was without my laptop too.
CJ - B3

Good to learn John, cheers.

CJ

As an XCsoar user now with an Iphone, can anyone tell my how well Iglide works with other devices? I have an LX EOS and Flarm.

With XCsoar I am presented with Flarm Nav info/warning screens and recieve full data packets from the EOS computer (gps, bario, windspeed, etc. ). I can also declare tasks to the EOS and upload files. All of this is sent and recieved via bluetooth. I have not found much info in the Iglide manuals regarding these kinds of features and would like to know more before I buy.

On Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 12:31:45 PM UTC-7, cftsinimbus wrote:
As an XCsoar user now with an Iphone, can anyone tell my how well Iglide works with other devices? I have an LX EOS and Flarm.

With XCsoar I am presented with Flarm Nav info/warning screens and recieve full data packets from the EOS computer (gps, bario, windspeed, etc. ). I can also declare tasks to the EOS and upload files. All of this is sent and recieved via bluetooth. I have not found much info in the Iglide manuals regarding these kinds of features and would like to know more before I buy.

Air Avionics is sadly lagging in the documentation department. If you have an Air Vario and their Connect Stick (or the equivalent from Amazon for $15), iGlide will connect to the vario and Flarm and produce all those things and more.You will get all barographic data, Flarm information and warnings, and instantaneous wind calculations. Air Avionics also sells a WiFi interface that will take an LX style serial stream and send it via WiFi to iGlide. I have not tried one of those, but it is supposed to give you much of the same things (in). You would not get instantaneous wind and I doubt it will upload files or declare tasks to the EOS.

For Apple Iphone you might take a look at the FlySkyHi app. I don't have one so I know nothing about it. One of my freinds uses it.

Thanks for that.

Looking forward to using the Iphone. The Android devices I have all are somewhat readable, but the Iphone is much better in sunlight than any of them.

The EOS has Bluetooth built in. Flarm is hard wired into into it and passes the flarm data through via Bluetooth to other devices.

I will comment on the results.