Kittyhawk App makes notification a snap?

SteelFlyer · Mar 23, 2017

I am a Kittyhawk member and use it to log all of my flights and maintenance. It also tracks flights by location and keeps tabs on battery charge cycles. It is incredibly useful and easy to use plus I like how the developers keep making improvements to it. I can highly recommend it.

Cyberpower678 · Mar 23, 2017

There appears to be a bug. According to the data on your app, the airport near me supports digital notifications. The data on Airmaps suggest otherwise, which I'm more inclined to believe.

SRJ_Mavic_PRO · Mar 23, 2017

Why is it when I press the digital notify that is calls there airport number? What does digital notify mean?

Kittyhawk · Mar 24, 2017

Cyberpower678 said:
There appears to be a bug. According to the data on your app, the airport near me supports digital notifications. The data on Airmaps suggest otherwise, which I'm more inclined to believe.

Our data comes directly from AirMap. If you see a discrepancy let us know.

What's the lat/long or airport? Let me know and I'll verify with AirMap.

Kittyhawk · Mar 24, 2017

SRJ_Mavic_PRO said:
Why is it when I press the digital notify that is calls there airport number? What does digital notify mean?

Tapping and calling let's you get in touch with the tower directly. Digitally notifying is when we send the flight info on your behalf when you create a live flight in Kittyhawk.

SafariMan · Mar 24, 2017

This is a really nice app, very useful as well in the free version. As soon as the weather will be better i will get the 1 year subscription. Thank you for your work

Cyberpower678 · Mar 24, 2017

Kittyhawk said:
Our data comes directly from AirMap. If you see a discrepancy let us know.

What's the lat/long or airport? Let me know and I'll verify with AirMap.

I sent you a PM with that info.

Kittyhawk · Mar 24, 2017

SafariMan said:
This is a really nice app, very useful as well in the free version. As soon as the weather will be better i will get the 1 year subscription. Thank you for your work

Thanks for the feedback. What would you like to see in the weather?

(We have some new designs in the works, so now is a perfect time to make some changes if you have some ideas

kbulla16 · Mar 24, 2017

Any plans on possibly integrating with Verifly so it could be logged that we are/were insured for a flight?

Josh @ Kittyhawk · Mar 24, 2017

We had a really great conversation with Verifly but they were adamant that because of the extremely stringent insurance regulations in the US there is no way we could integrate the Verifly functionality directly into Kittyhawk to create a "one stop shop".

Bigdz · Mar 24, 2017

Josh @ Kittyhawk said:
We had a really great conversation with Verifly but they were adamant that because of the extremely stringent insurance regulations in the US there is no way we could integrate the Verifly functionality directly into Kittyhawk to create a "one stop shop".

This app is awesome! All the surrounding airport (bay area) are accepting digital notices. Nice work!!

kbulla16 · Mar 24, 2017

I get that the transaction itself would have a bunch of hurdles making it difficult or impossible to accomplish, but what I'd be more interested in is Kittyhawk seeing the app running and grabbing a confirmation that coverage was active during the flight, and maybe an ID or something for that insurance certificate. Would be cool to have everything in place in one log entry. Thanks for replying though!

Gumby · Mar 24, 2017

capt._dan said:
Android?

Watching this closely... the more airports that come on-line the better this is for everyone. Good luck on your business. I for one will help support it

Dragonwar · Mar 24, 2017

I'm all signed up works here in Canada

JJM · Mar 25, 2017

When a digital notice is sent to a tower, do we get confirmation that they've received it?

CactusJackSlade · Mar 25, 2017

I'm assuming this is all for hobbyist notification, not 107 cert notification, that still goes through the FAA portal yes?

Cyberpower678 · Mar 25, 2017

Bigdz said:
This app is awesome! All the surrounding airport (bay area) are accepting digital notices. Nice work!!

I wouldn't rely on that too much. I discovered a big there that results in misinformation. Kittyhawk.io said they'll have fixed in the next release.

SafariMan · Mar 26, 2017

Kittyhawk said:
Thanks for the feedback. What would you like to see in the weather?

(We have some new designs in the works, so now is a perfect time to make some changes if you have some ideas

Sorry for the delayed answer. By weather, i meant it was very windy and rainy here and not so much flying opportunities

Capra Vecinului · Mar 26, 2017

Installed the free version today; I am astonished by the level of detail and information the maps provide, even in Eastern Europe! Really nice job!

Grey Wolf · Mar 26, 2017

So it does work in Canada then?
How do we know that the airport has received the notification?
How do they respond to accept our flight?
Is it someone in the tower or a paper pusher in the office?
I would think the tower would have no interest nor the time to deal with us drone pilots !