The implications for iPad usage in GA aircraft are HUGE. The day it launched in the USA I ventured out to the local Apple store to try one out.
While I was there I decided to give ForeFlight Mobile 3 HD a play and admit that single application was the make or break decision for me. Once I saw how elegant ForeFlight Mobile was, I knew I had to have an iPad.
And don’t worry because we’ll be making plenty of video reviews for iPad and it’s aviation super powers.
Read more about the iPad’s possibilities for GA users at http://www.aopa.org/flightplanning/articles/2010/100506ipad.html
Cheers!
I have no doubt that the ipad will drastically change the GA cockpit. To have such a powerful, relatively inexpensive device provide a virtual paperless cockpit to the masses is astronomical. I currently fly 135 in a paperless cockpit, but let me say that those systems aren’t perfect. We have 2 FSUs that hold our electronic charts and in the last 2 days the left one took a crap. It leaves you feeling out of the loop relying on the right seater to pull up charts and scroll around. I am not sure what the yearly subscriptions costs for our electronic Jepp charts but it seems to me cheaper to pay $70 and utilize Foreflight on an ipad. I’m just saying!
Oh man, no doubt that is annoying! All this equipment doesn’t mean spit if it doest work when you need it to.
I’ve got an iPad on order and should have some video reviews of ForeFlight and Skycharts in the next few weeks. Might be worth buying one for yourself if for nothing more than an emergency backup, especially if you’re having so many problems.
Of course we don’t yet these toys in the 121 world so I have to be my own guinea pig – but I don’t mind 🙂