AirTrack and xpfr’s LFGH

[Simmo W]

AirTrack and xpfr’s LFGH

LFGH |  Cosne sur Loire is a smallish airport located southeast of Orleans in the Burgundy Region of Central France, and it is also the latest scenery by XPFR for X-Plane. The airport, like the village it serves, is on the east bank of the Loire River, which by-and-large remains navigable to barge traffic today ...

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[Oliver]

Downloading! I love XPFR, and their amazing scenes! I used to live near Orleans as a kid 

[garrettm30]

I would like to add my hearty recommendation of AirTrack. It is a good product, and the developer is apparently very open to feedback. I run it on my first generation iPod Touch, and I shot IP Objects Air an e-mail requesting that landscape mode be added. Fewer than 24 hours later I got a kind response saying that they had been thinking of adding it to the iPad version only, but since I asked, they would add it for iPod as well. Sure enough, the next major update came with widescreen support. I'm happy to support companies like that.

In case you are curious, here is the original correspondence:

My e-mail, August 27:

Hi,

I recently purchased AirTrack and I am very excited about what I see in the program. One feature that would make all the difference in how I use the program is if the program can be in landscape, particularly the MFD. I’ll explain why it’s important to me. I have my hardware set up where on top of my CH Products Flight yoke I have mounted a business card holder that I have made into an iPod holder. In the past, I have used this configuration with Laminar’s X-Plane Remote program set to map. I greatly preferred this to the hard-to-read moving map onscreen in the cockpit of the various planes I flew. The iPod could thus be much closer to my face than the screen. The trouble was that X-Plane Remote had a very limited map feature compared to your product and recently the heading function has been broken for the last several version revisions. This finally prompted me to go looking for another program, and I was excited to find yours. As it currently is, I would have to look at the map sideways (not very good for situational orientation), or else unplug the cord so it can stand up straight, but battery power doesn’t last well enough for that. For this reason, I would greatly appreciate a future revision making landscape orientation for the MFD possible.

Thanks,

Garrett McGilvray

Their response, August 28:

Hi,

Glad you enjoy the product

Thanks for the feature request! We'll try to make landscape mode available in one of the next versions (not the next one which is already out for revision but perhaps the one after). Actually we thought of making it only for the ipad but now that you asked, we'll also make it for the ipod.

We're also thinking of making a PFD available replacing the whole flight data section but Im not sure yet how this will look like. And many other things, just a matter of time

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, we'll surely make it avaialble as soon as possible.

kind regards,

joao @ IP Objects Air

[Simmo W]

Now that's responsive Garratt. Chip has this, and after your comments I'll get it too, but many of these apps don't have all the content we need in Aussie.

[Oliver]

Ah Wonderful! Just bought the app! Flying with it currently, and really lovin' it!