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Weird Box Following Me on IFLY

12/21/2019 9:15 AM

Cobra

Joined: 4/20/2011

Posts: 2602

Re: Weird Box Following Me on IFLY

By "box" do you mean "diamond"?

12/21/2019 9:48 AM

John Miller

Joined: 9/12/2010

Posts: 644

Re: Weird Box Following Me on IFLY

Yes.I guess a box turned slightly becomes diamond shape. It's the same s you see with a plane running up but not moving.

I will take a screen shot next time I see it.

John M

1/3/2020 5:42 PM

Robert Laird

Joined: 9/26/2017

Posts: 61

Re: Weird Box Following Me on IFLY

I had an identical occurrence (diamond shaped icon immediately behind my plane, in red). It only happened once. I had ghost suppressing on, as well. Unfortunately, I didn't take a picture, or click on it, etc. If it happens again, I'll try to do better. (I run a 740b, Android and iPad at the same time, and I was busy at the time, so I don't even remember which one I saw it on! Sorry! But I did see it.)

----------------- AutoGyro Cavalon N535RL ||| uAvionix echoUAT w/ SkyFX-Ext ||| iFly 740b / iPad / Android ||| http://www.texas-flyer.com

1/3/2020 9:56 PM

Cobra

Joined: 4/20/2011

Posts: 2602

Re: Weird Box Following Me on IFLY

iFly does its best to avoid showing you your own shadow, but occasionally its ghost-detection logic gets fooled. Sometimes, you just have to interpret the data and realize, "that's not a real target," and go on with the flight.

1/4/2020 8:21 AM

Brian

Joined: 9/7/2011

Posts: 4453

Re: Weird Box Following Me on IFLY

John Miller wrote:

The size of the box is about the same as the typical triangle presentation. The color of the box changes just a warnings from a close target.

I'll fly today and see if I get a duplicate issue.

John M

John, we can debug and fix this, but to do so, I would need an ADSB raw log from you. You can produce this by "Menu => Setup => ADSB => Options => Enable ADSB Log". Then when you restart iFly each time, it'll confirm whether or not to keep ADSB logging enabled, answer Yes.

After you duplicate this issue, then do Menu => About => Send Bug Report => Select Log => Scroll to find the ADSB Log with the correct time stamp.

From this I'll be able to replay the ADSB log at my desk, and hopefully, I'll see the same diamond/ghost, and then be able to fix it.

Brian Knox, Sr Software Engineer

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