Electronic Flight Bag

[fbEagle]

Question for all you pilots out there. If you've ever flown a long cross-country you know how cluttered your knee board can get. Do any of you use a tablet for their primary navigation instead of paper maps while flying? If so, which ones do you think are the best?   

[Oldman731]

Question for all you pilots out there. If you've ever flown a long cross-country you know how cluttered your knee board can get. Do any of you use a tablet for their primary navigation instead of paper maps while flying? If so, which ones do you think are the best? 

I've used the iPad, running ForeFlight, for a few years now.  I keep the paper charts and approach plates as backup, but I don't think I've referred to them, in flight, for a very long time.

I started with the first iPad (literally...wife bought it on March 1, 2010, the first day they were on sale).  Because it doesn't have a GPS chip I bought a BadElf device that attaches to the power outlet.  Later I bought an iPad 3, which has better resolution and its own GPS chip.  Both have worked very well.

Note that you can't use a tablet as your primary navigation device for IFR flying.

- oldman

[Puma44]

Foreflight and an IPAD  has a everything a VFR pilot should ever need.  I find it much more efficient and convenient than all the paper maps, flight computers, plotters, airport data books, etc that we used to have to carry.

[jollyFE]

I use it every flight, the aircraft actually moving on the approach plate is a huge SA builder.....I think I'd cry if I didn't have it.

[jigsaw]

Another Foreflight/Ipad here.  Foreflight just needs to take over Jepp and they'd be darn near perfect.

[Golfer]

iPads and JeppFD/ARINC Direct. Had Foreflight at my last company but since we were only approved for Jepp software that's what I used the most.