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  by Perry Lindsay 1 year ago

  I have an Ipad. I won a years subscription to Foreflight with winning free stuff for pilots. I've since upgraded to hd, with the geo referencing charts. I use it as I'm flying cross country on the vfr charts. I also bought a 32 channel gps receiver with blue tooth so I can watch the progress as I'm flying. I use the preflight planning quite a bit, as it's better than what I can get from my company ( A 121 airline)
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  by Charles Guerin 1 year ago

  I like Jeppesen Mobile TC, the Foreflight Checklist, and Aviation Docs for documents. That last item, I must mention some bias -- since my company produces Aviation Docs.
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  by Bruce Marshall 1 year ago

  I use Jepp paper charts in the airplane but have a subscription to ForeFlight. Not sure I am quite ready to switch to either NOAA charts or the iPad in the cockpit. Have had problems downloading charts from ForeFlight based on a router problem. But the wife likes keeping track of where we are on the ForeFlight maps. :-)
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  by Michael Crowder 1 year ago

  I've got an iPAD and and Android phone. I've used Foreflight and Skycharts on the iPad and Navzilla on the Android phone. I find the larger screen on the iPAD very beneficial. Weather briefing with the iPAD is great. I can even get official flight reviews with DUATS on the iPAD. I plan to try out WingX Pro 7 on the iPAD on my next long XCountry flight. WingX recently added ADS/B support for inflight weather......very cool.
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  by John Roach 1 year ago

  I use "iFly" which is not really an app but a dedicated system. Because I fly "low and slow" I use it mostly as a planning device and for inflight information I may need for flight deviations, usually weather related. It's a little more compact than an ipad and space is very limited in my cockpit. My longest trip with it so far was about 750 miles each way and I did make many revisions to my route -- most of them on the ground. I like the availability of current charts and airport information and on my recent long trip alone, the cost of current paper charts and airport information would have amounted to about $75 for just one time use.
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  by Daniel DeDona 1 year ago

  I kept a Palm for many years because Laurie Davis (Laurie Davis ) from up in Canada wrote CoPilot. At long last, he rewrote CoPilot for the iPhone (www.ljd-tech.com/copilot/, see also the App Store) where it continues to shine. This all in one app does flight planning for multi-leg trips (think Angel Flights), weight and balance, pulls down weather for your route, calculates leg times, and will file your flight plan through Foreflight. It is still the easiest way to organize a flight because it works its way through the process like a pilot. Charts is the reason I got an iPad 2, and Foreflight is the app I chose. Like CoPilot, it is very intuitive, presenting a lot of information easily. I've flown with it a few times now and have found no reason to have a physical chart in the cockpit other than for westbound shade in an afternoon sun. At $75 for an annual chart subscription for all of North America and a lot of the rest of the world, it won't take long to pay off both the iPad and the subscription. When Baron comes out with its wifi system for XM weather, you'll be able to get that in the cockpit as well. One other useful app is DocsToGo. If you can find a PDF version of your aircraft documentation (POH, avionics manuals, etc) you can have them all right there with you for those weather layovers or any time you need to check your numbers or manufacturers procedures.
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  by David Montgomery 1 year ago

  I have an iPad2 with Foreflight and WingXPro5. I like the Foreflight better because it is easier to use. WingX has a lot of good points, but is not as easy to get info when you want it PDG. I, also, have a Garmin Aera 560 on my yoke and an iFly 700 on the co-pilot's yoke. In addition, I have the TrueFlight Cheetah 190. All this in a Grumman AA-5B "Tiger."
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  by Jacqueline Grosser 10 months ago

  I am Canadian, but wrote my license in the US,,,,I used Foreflight (love it) and SkyVector on my IPAD,
  Unfortunately, having moved back to Canada, these no longer work, as Canada has not yet adapted their paper charts to electronic versions. Does anyone know of any Canadian electronic charts available for Ipad....I have had no luck, have spoken with Transport CAnada and they say they are working on it, which could take some time. As a new pilot, I really am missing my electrocharts!