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12/22/2019 11:29 AM
 

In the 3D EFIS, ADS-B traffic can be hard to see clearly on the 740 because the colors don't stand out well compared to the other objects in the EFIS. That's especially so in daytime flight. Everything looks a lot better indoors or in flight at night.

So it would be nice if the EFIS traffic target colors can be made brighter on the 740--more flourescent, if that's possible.

(Of course, this may be a hardware limitation; the same display is clearer and quicker on my iPhone Xs Max.)

 

It would also be nice if the size of the traffic would grow larger the closer it gets--or flash, or something like that--to make it more noticeable on the 740, especially when there are reflections of bright things in the cockpit. (This may be influenced by my Alert settings, which I've had to suppress because of flying a seaplane low and landing off-airports in almost every flight.)

Maybe the color brightness and target size could be made user-adjustable.

 

Has anyone made a side-by-side comparison of the 740 and 740b displays in bright sunlight? I'd probably buy a 740b if I knew it was significantly brighter or faster.

 
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12/22/2019 4:41 PM
 

If I'm not mistaken, the 740b is actually dimmer than the 740. 

 
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1/9/2020 11:54 AM
 

The 740 and 740b are almost identical in brightness, upgrading in this case would not benefit you.  I'll notate your suggestions for a future release.

Thanks!


Walter Boyd
President, Adventure Pilot
 
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1/16/2020 10:16 AM
 
Walter wrote:

The 740 and 740b are almost identical in brightness, upgrading in this case would not benefit you.  I'll notate your suggestions for a future release.

Thanks!

Walter, I hope that "future release" comes sooner rather than later. Just yesterday I was flying near an airport (KFCI) where several pilots were announcing their positions screwily--one said he was near a fix I didn't recognize, another was entering somewhere on a right base for a left-pattern runway, and a third was on an IFR approach to the opposite runway of the one in use. I kept glancing at the 740, but couldn't pick out any of that traffic. At least some of it was probably there, but I didn't have the luxury of studying the screen to find it. (Both the map and the half-screen EFIS were open.)

I did notice an airliner in the clear blue sky of the EFIS, several thousand feet above me, letting down to land at KRIC, but saw nobody close to the horizon clutter, where the rest of us all were.

I also had iFly open on my iPhone, but it didn't seem to be displaying any ADS-B info then, even though I had connected it manually to the uAvionix wifi before takeoff.

There's another side to the ADS-B traffic displays that I find really disappointing--that many, many ADS-B out aircraft NEVER show up in any display, including iFly, FlightAware, Flight Radar 24, Plane Finder, and even the FAA's ADS-B test site. That's not an iFly problem, of course. And it may be corrected if and when ADS-B starts using satellites for the data link instead of other aircraft and ground stations. Right now, however, I don't have any faith that any particular aircraft will show up in any ADS-B display anywhere.

 

 
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1/16/2020 2:39 PM
 

Amen on the point about traffic not showing up.  And it's not just because they don't have ADS-B Out and they're too low for a radar hit.  They're at all altitudes.  I swear that at least a quarter of the traffic I see with my eyes does not show up on the display.


Powrachute PC 2000; Aventura II; Cherokee 180
 
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