Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: fbEagle on November 04, 2013, 03:07:12 PM
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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? :airplane:
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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
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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.
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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.
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Another Foreflight/Ipad here. Foreflight just needs to take over Jepp and they'd be darn near perfect.
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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.