IFD Trainer

This is an awesome app…superb functionality that makes learning the app a pleasant experience as it truly emulates the real deal. The IFD100 Companion app extends usability and functionality in the flight deck…preparing flight plans ahead of time, making edits to ongoing flight parameters, frequency updates and all of the cool things that are natively available in the IFD. Since ditching my GNS430W for the plug-in replacement IFD440, I have not regretted my decision. It would be nice if the IFD Trainer and the IFD100 were available for Android! Skip the tired excuse of too many flavors of Android. Develop for the Samsung platform and you stand to gain a whole ‘nother market share!!

Crashes all the time and is difficult to use.

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.

I can’t get it to start. It says “no database”. I down load databases and try again, it still says “no databases”

There is no altitude control when running app on a Mac which renders the simulator useless.

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.

Where is the PC version?

Heading up not working on map display. Always shows north up. Please fix.

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.

I’m flying with a friend who has Avidyne equipment in his Mooney and Lake Amphibian. This is very helpful.