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Freeze during flight - IPad mini


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Skydemon version (2.6.3) Full subscription on IPad mini.

On our way to Aero Expo on Sunday, heading SE and just south (10 miles approx) of the Isle of Man, the Skydemon aircraft symbol stopped, turned red (it was yellow) and pointed north. A message to the effect Route ended (or lost or closed, can't quite remember) and another stated that it had stopped logging. I turned Skydemon off and back on - didn't help, I then turned the IPad off and back on again but still no luck. About 10 minutes later it started working again and did so without incident for the remaining 5 hours of flying that day .

What was interesting - another Skydemon working on a colleague's IPad (not mini) had no problems.

I talked to the Skydemon guys at the Expo who were very helpful. It was suggested that my IPad had temporarily lost the satellite signal and had difficulty regaining it as it would normally use a wireless signal to help the initial acquisition. I wondered if the very small distance in positioning/shading between my colleague's IPad (front RHS lap) and mine (rear LHS lap in C172) could make such a difference? Or does the IPad mini have an inferior built in sat nav system? Or, is it a Skydemon version problem (2.6.3).

I know that I can add an external sat nav receiver to the IPad, assuming that the problem is sat signal related, would this addition improve performance?

Appreciate any advice!

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Had SD for just over year, full subscription, having tried the 30 day trial in 2012 to Corsica (and back) Just superb

Just before setting out on the 2013 flight (7th June to 15th June, around europe, PA28) I updated to version 2.7.0 on Ipad 2.

All was great, planning the whole route, plates, airport info from the AIP's. you name it. So to get to the subject of freezes.

Routing from Gdansk to Krakow with most of the leg complete, the aircraft symbol jumps abruptly to the left and logging stops. Restarting SD on the "Home Button" several times produced a tracking 180 degrees out. Rebooted Ipad and situation normal, so the last 40 miles no problem. Just as well, as the weather was in a grumpy mood w00t

Later in the week I had several "freezes" and the only way to recover seems be to reboot the Ipad, sometimes twice or more. The freezing seems to occur in concentrated batches ( once I had five in short order) but once you achieve an Ipad reboot, things settle down. I do not recall there being a "lost satellite reception" warning.

As this is the first time I have encountered this problem, I thought it might be just ver 2.7.0 but it looks not, from earlier posts. At the moment I am not sure if it is a SD or Ipad problem

Since then, no repeat of the problem, but flying somewhat less hours at the moment.

PS , I do operate a Garmin 296 just in case, but not in the same class as SD
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