Developments

[stickandrudderman]

Guys,
Can you tell us what developments you have planned for the 4500?
I have two 4500 in my panel with the AFS GPS (no 430 etc) and with the recent upgrades I'm pretty happy with the capabilities.
The only thing lacking is airspace warnings; any chance of them being included at some time?
The reason I ask is that I have a temporary panel in my Falco and am getting to the point where I want to make the final article. I do have available to me a GNS430W and I'm struggling with whether to fit it or not. I can see that the extra radio and airspace warnings would be useful, but what other advantages would there be?
I realise that the latter part of my question is more aimed at general viewers but am looking for contributions from everyone on this aspect.
Thanks

[Norman]

Is this what you would like? Ten minutes before and within 200ft of controlled airspace a warning pops up, and the area has a red highlight.



Norman

[stickandrudderman]

Yes, where does that info come from?
Anything that pops up and says "Oi, poo-for-brains, you're about to infringe...".
Also, user defined waypoints would be nice.

[lancair390]

Of corse I do read your posts...but I'm not sure if I can help:-)

It would be nice to have a function in the forum, so it will send you an Email to notify that new posts of a thread arrived.
If you don't look in the forum you will not know if a new post arrived in your forum inbox.

Christian

[rleffler]

Of corse I do read your posts...but I'm not sure if I can help:-)

It would be nice to have a function in the forum, so it will send you an Email to notify that new posts of a thread arrived.
If you don't look in the forum you will not know if a new post arrived in your forum inbox.

Christian

You can change your subscription settings (general settings) to email you a notification when a post to a subscribed thread is added.

bob

[stickandrudderman]

Thank you Christian for your reply!
I was rather hoping for a reply from the AFS team regarding what developments are in the pipeline for the 4500.....
Colin

[chardks]

The majority of the 'new' feature development is being done on the 5000 series instruments. To some degree these features will be back-ported into the 4000 series when possible. There are plans for major improvements to the 5000 series mapping especially in the area of flight panning and airspaces however, it is unclear how many of these developments will be made available for the 4000 series.

[Rob Hickman]

We are currently working on new software for both the AF-5000 and AF-4000 series units. The following items are in development:

AF-4000

1. AF-Pilot On/Off and status from the EFIS screen like the AF-5000
2. The green banana, which shows at which point the airplanes estimates you to reach the altitude you dialed in the altittude bug and vertical speed.
3. Airspeed and Altitude trend markers
4. PocketFMS data
5. ADSB TFR's

AF-5000

1. The green banana, which shows at which point the airplanes estimates you to reach the altitude you dialed in the altittude bug and vertical speed.
3. Airspeed and Altitude trend markers
4. PocketFMS data
5. High Resolution terrain
6. Airspace warnings
7. ADSB - TFR support
8. User waypoints
9. Radio interface
10. Transponder Interface.

[vickruis]

The PocketsFMS feature would be great here in Europe.

[amekler]

We are currently working on new software for both the AF-5000 and AF-4000 series units. The following items are in development:

AF-4000

1. AF-Pilot On/Off and status from the EFIS screen like the AF-5000
2. The green banana, which shows at which point the airplanes estimates you to reach the altitude you dialed in the altittude bug and vertical speed.
3. Airspeed and Altitude trend markers
4. PocketFMS data
5. ADSB TFR's

AF-5000

1. The green banana, which shows at which point the airplanes estimates you to reach the altitude you dialed in the altittude bug and vertical speed.
3. Airspeed and Altitude trend markers
4. PocketFMS data
5. High Resolution terrain
6. Airspace warnings
7. ADSB - TFR support
8. User waypoints
9. Radio interface
10. Transponder Interface.

Rob,
It's been a while since we have seen anything new for the 4500. any news when we will have these?

Alan