Who has an iPad?

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Serious'y...who has one?
 
IPad mini retina, seriously :yes:
 
1st Gen Mini, mainly my EFB running WingX. Digital sectionals help, but will upgrade to an Air when they hit the refurb market.
 
I never go flying without my ipad mini, except around the pattern. Sure makes vfr xcountry easy.
 
Obligatory photo with home made RAM suction cup mount:

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On mine now. But no GPS in mine! :(


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I pad 3 with fore flight and stratus.
 
On my third...first, 32GB iPad2 wifi; second, 64GB iPad3 Verizon; current 128GB iPad Air Verizon. Prefer larger form factor. Air reduced size and weight enough to keep me from going Mini.

Also have Nexus 7 as a backup....fully charged with current charts.
 

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murphey said:
At the monthly board meeting of the Colorado Pilots Assoc, I think there's only 2-3 people who don't have an iPad out of the 15+ attendees.
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Were they given a deadline to comply?
 
I don't. Sometime I think about getting one but it would be another thing to carry around. I travel with a MacBook Air and I have an iPhone so I haven't been able to justify an iPad so far.
 
Does it count if I don't use it seriously?

I have an iPad 4, recently upgraded from a 2.

But seriously, for casual web surfing, not writing novels on POA, it's easier to deal with than a desktop.

And the Foreflight app is more functional than a panel mount 430, save for it's inability to drive an autopilot without an expensive third party interface.
 
My work aircraft is set up pretty good with the Garmin500H so I'd have no need to carry an ipad. Not to mention the company doesn't allow it and I have no room up front anyway. I use my iphone (on the ground) everyday at work though. Don't know what we did in EMS before GPS and iphones. Guess they actually had to use some ADM back then. :D

Personal flying I just don't fly enough to justify lugging around an ipad in my aircraft. Usually I'm local and not even looking at my GPS anyway. In the future I'll upgrade to G3X touch and GTX330 ADS-B out anyway so there will be no need for any tablet device.
 

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Pilawt said:
Foreflight on an iPad 2 and on a mini-mini-iPad (aka iPhone 4).

Is the upgrade worthwhile?
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Not really for the price, but I bricked my 2 in a software update gone bad and decided to go for the 4. The display is really nice, no graininess, and it loads stuff faster.

With the advent of improved sectional charts in Foreflight, the difference is very noticeable. I mean if you have a 2, keep it but if you're choosing between the two get the 4.
 
John Baker said:
Are these things better than the newer hand held or yoke mount Garmins with weather?
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I do like the active display of the Garmin better than the passive scanned-chart presentation of FF. And XM Weather works even on the ground, while you need some altitude to pick up the ADS-B signals.

That said; I've switched from Garmin/XM to an all iGadget/FF setup.

You'll pay $899 for an Aera 510, plus database updates at $50+ a pop, plus XM subscription of $30+ a month. And you'll still want to carry your iPad for all of the approach plates and other resources, anyway.

A Stratus 2 is about $800 I think, and there's no subscription for the weather service. Foreflight runs about $75-150/year, depending which service level you pick. One subscription is good for one iPad and one iPhone simultaneously; and since the Stratus connects in the cockpit via Wi-Fi, there's no limit to the number of gadgets you can have connected to it.

I have an iPhone on the yokemount for basic magenta-line following, and keep the iPad in the map pocket for looking up other stuff.
 
I have an iPad2 wifi, I got it because Angry Birds on the phone sucked. I find it good fir Internet browsing like this, email, and watching Netflix, now that MS Office is available, I may upgrade to iOS 7.x.x so I can get it, then if that works, I'll largely be able to do everything on it.
 
I'm on my 2nd one. I had a 1st-gen that I traded in for a 1st-gen Mini. Both 64G with cellular. I'll probably get a retina Mini after the next refresh. Have the Stratus 2 as well.
 
iPad 2 for me running full blown WingX with iLevil WAAS GPS/AHRS/ADS-B.
I gave my wife a new iPad Air for Christmas. It looks nice and is fast but I have not been tempted to upgrade my 2 just yet.
 
John Baker said:
Are these things better than the newer hand held or yoke mount Garmins with weather?
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IMO, yes. It's cheaper than a Garmin (without a wx box), and it does WAY more.

Now, if you buy an ADS-B box, you'll pay more up front, but the box will pay for itself in a year and change just in saved XM weather subscriptions.

You can get XM on an iPad, but again, $$$. I have a Stratus and a cellular-capable iPad, so I can get weather through the cell network on the ground and through ADS-B (Stratus) in the air.

Even if you buy it purely for aviation use, you'll probably end up finding it useful for a lot of other things, too, and that's where the value really lies. The Garmins are useless outside the cockpit.
 
Texastaildragger said:
Who doesn't , really ? :)
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Not me! ...I have a Nexus 7 with Avare. I don't really bother with it if I'm going for a short XC that I'm familiar with or one where pilotage is so dead simple that I take off and follow a road or a river or something the whole way, but I do like using it for more intricate flights (threading the needle between the FRZ and Baltimore's Class B, for example). That being said, I do get some strange satisfaction out of using the paper chart. It feels great to be able to get yourself around with no more than your eyeballs and a piece of paper :)
 
I have an iPad Air and love it. I have ForeFlight on it and with the new digital charts, it's really nice. I don't have a mount for the cockpit or a Stratus, yet.
 
I have noticed some friends whose plane is not /g but when they take there ipad they file /g. How can that be? Cant shoot rnav approaches with it and can you really use it for enroute ifr going direct? Just wondering how most use it..
 
simtech said:
I have noticed some friends whose plane is not /g but when they take there ipad they file /g. How can that be? Cant shoot rnav approaches with it and can you really use it for enroute ifr going direct? Just wondering how most use it..
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Big no no.

But there is nothing wrong with filing as a /a or whatever and requesting a really long direct vector. I've done that when I've filed as a /a with an enroute legal GPS. They know you have a GPS but legally your primary nav is the compass and DG.
 
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For years, if I had just a handheld GPS, I would say something like...

"Miami Center, N74629 can navigate direct xxx with an unapproved GPS".

Routinely they would respond, "N74629, that's approved. Cleared direct xxx, via own navigation. Advise of any change."

As long as we were in radar contact, I can't recall ever being turned down.

But that was a long time ago, and I would not have dreamed of filing /G.
 
On my second iPad. Went from the the 1 to the Mini this last Christmas. Anybody want to buy an iPad 1 with FF and other aviation aps already on it in a Techboard aluminum knee board case?
 
Sac Arrow said:
Big no no.

But there is nothing wrong with filing as a /a or whatever and requesting a really long direct vector. I've done that when I've filed as a /a with an enroute legal GPS. They know you have a GPS but legally your primary nav is the compass and DG.
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For a decade I filed /A, then put "VFR GPS" in the remarks. Was never turned down on a Direct request and was offered them out of the blue numerous times. But filing /G would be asking for trouble.
 
LDJones said:
For a decade I filed /A, then put "VFR GPS" in the remarks. Was never turned down on a Direct request and was offered them out of the blue numerous times. But filing /G would be asking for trouble.
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See when I'm /u I say unable and request a navigable point. If I'm given vectors things change of course. Maybe I'm confused.

Case in point - departing 15G for D98 I was /u and cleared direct LLEEO. I said unable but I can fly direct DJB. I was then cleared direct DJB and own nav. Is that not right?
 
ChrisK said:
See when I'm /u I say unable and request a navigable point. If I'm given vectors things change of course. Maybe I'm confused.

Case in point - departing 15G for D98 I was /u and cleared direct LLEEO. I said unable but I can fly direct DJB. I was then cleared direct DJB and own nav. Is that not right?
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Sounds odd that they would clear you direct, but in theory you could have set up an intercept course for the fix that would have gotten you closer than you would be otherwise going direct to the VOR. I've been given long vectors with intercepts before.
 
ChrisK said:
See when I'm /u I say unable and request a navigable point. If I'm given vectors things change of course. Maybe I'm confused.

Case in point - departing 15G for D98 I was /u and cleared direct LLEEO. I said unable but I can fly direct DJB. I was then cleared direct DJB and own nav. Is that not right?
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Just use your best dead reckoning skills towards LLEEO, then confirm your nav judgment with the GPS....for situational awareness.
 
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