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Final Approach
I use my old out of cell service iPhone 6sPlus on the yoke with ForeFlight for GPS nav. I have FltPlanGo on my iPhone 8 for GPS backup.
I have my son’s old iPad WiFi only and wanted to use it for nav also (simply used it with ForeFlight for planning, charts, and AFD/Supplement). Plus my eyes are getting bad and need to zoom in with the iPhone 6sPlus sometimes. My wife also wanted a moving plane symbol on the iPad for when she tries to follow along
So I could have gotten a new or used iPad cellular. Or done nothing. Or spend $122 on a Stratux (didn’t need the AHRS/fan control). Could have been even cheaper if I used my own micro-SD card and downloaded the software myself.
I built it while eating lunch. Fired it up in the driveway to acquire satellites.
So now I have cheap GPS signal to my cheap iPad. I get weather too, but I consider that a bonus, not the main purpose for me...I’m not good yet at judging how far away buildups are and this will help me with learning distance estimation in the future. (Traffic too, but I don’t even think I’ll use it much; saw a lot of planes in Class A airspace which is really just annoyance.)
Planning to put it in the luggage area under the rear window. Powering it by ship power with a 12v cigarette lighter extension to the rear, then a 12v-to-USB adapter, and a short USB-to-micro-USB cable.
So if you want GPS position on your WiFi only device, $122 is the cheapest I’ve found to get it.
Hope this helps some other GPS deficient dudes.
I have my son’s old iPad WiFi only and wanted to use it for nav also (simply used it with ForeFlight for planning, charts, and AFD/Supplement). Plus my eyes are getting bad and need to zoom in with the iPhone 6sPlus sometimes. My wife also wanted a moving plane symbol on the iPad for when she tries to follow along
So I could have gotten a new or used iPad cellular. Or done nothing. Or spend $122 on a Stratux (didn’t need the AHRS/fan control). Could have been even cheaper if I used my own micro-SD card and downloaded the software myself.
I built it while eating lunch. Fired it up in the driveway to acquire satellites.
So now I have cheap GPS signal to my cheap iPad. I get weather too, but I consider that a bonus, not the main purpose for me...I’m not good yet at judging how far away buildups are and this will help me with learning distance estimation in the future. (Traffic too, but I don’t even think I’ll use it much; saw a lot of planes in Class A airspace which is really just annoyance.)
Planning to put it in the luggage area under the rear window. Powering it by ship power with a 12v cigarette lighter extension to the rear, then a 12v-to-USB adapter, and a short USB-to-micro-USB cable.
So if you want GPS position on your WiFi only device, $122 is the cheapest I’ve found to get it.
Hope this helps some other GPS deficient dudes.