My new share-o-plane has a PilotAware fitted on a cigarette lighter adaptor.
Saves messing with a usb battery like my previous rental setup, but being switched on with the avionics master means that it isn’t ready for use for a couple of minutes after startup.
I’ve got quite used to the engine start and off blocks logging, but this requires starting the flight before the engine is started.
Is there any way to start a flight using my iPad’s location services and then switch to the PilotAware once that has booted?
It should have finished booting by the time runup checks are completed...

Just done a trial by removing the gps source from my pilotaware.

The failure is that the wifi hasn’t booted up until ~2m10s where the comms handshake timeout looks like it is set at 15s for any occasion.

After starting a flight post boot (but with no gps) I started engines and waited 3m before pulling the power to pilotaware. 15s later the comms loss error popped up and the flight was scrapped with no log

I did this again but also selecting off blocks with the same result.

Is there a user selectable comms loss timeout hidden in the menu or is it hard coded?