FlyQ Pilot's Guide

Weather

Weather information is critical when flying and you need to know the age and source of the weather to make decisions. This display immediately shows the age and source of each weather product. Weather is downloaded from the Internet every 8 minutes and cached on the iPad/iPhone for use during flight. Green means that weather (at least METAR/TAF, Winds Aloft, and Nexrad) has been updated within 60 minutes, Yellow is within 4 hours, Red longer than that. Note: An ADS-B system does not receive all the same data as FlyQ EFB gets from the Internet. Specifically, Satellite is not available in the ADS-B data feed. AIRMET/SIGMET data is in the ADS-B feed but, as of this writing, FlyQ EFB does not process it. This means that the sample display above shows everything working as designed. FlyQ EFB provides in-flight weather updates when using one of our supported ADS-B receivers. As of this writing, that includes the Merlin, Stratux, Sagetech Clarity, the Dual XGPS 170 and 190, L-3 Lynx, SkyRadar DX, SkyRadar L, SkyRadar D2, all iLevil ADS-B receivers, AW Pathfinder, FreeFlight RANGR, Bendix-King, and NavWorx receivers. The Stratus 1S and 2S are not supported at this time because AFS (Appareo, ForeFlight, Sporty’s) added code to the firmware in those units that appears to serve no purpose other than make it very difficult for FlyQ EFB to connect to it. Similarly, the Stratus 1 and Stratus 2 are supported by FlyQ EFB but only if they have not loaded with firmware version 2.x. Please contact Sporty’s or Appareo if you would like to see them remove the blocking code and allow you to use the device you purchased with your choice of app. In general, we do not recommend using Stratus devices with FlyQ.

FlyQ EFB Pilot’s Guide

Version 3.0 (2/8/2018)

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