![]() I have every available European AIP in my MobileMe cloud space and pull down the ones I need for off line viewing deleting the local copy when I am done. It allows you to keep documents locally and pull down over the air whatever you have in storage. ![]() This will connect to virtually any online storage facility. I have encountered the problem as with all GPS units that it can't see through our heated windscreens at work which has required the Bluetooth GPS on a side window.Īs for file storage, reading etc take a look at GoodReader. I have not found a problem with the built in GPS yet even in a 5t high wing aircraft. Airnav Pro has the capability of receiving it. You can even use an iPhone to send GPS data to the iPad via bluetooth. Pretty much any of the bluetooth units work fine. There are plenty of third party GPS units that work just fine with the iPad. Simply prepare whatever you think you need on your PC/laptop at home (as PDF), dump it into the Dropbox folder (in which you can create subfolders as required), wait a few minutes until it has synced to the iPad, open Dropbox on the iPad and view the document using GoodReader. After all, it just dumps the AIP on you, and the AIP is not always in a convenient format to use in-flight.įor everything else there's Dropbox and GoodReader. On the other hand: If you have some sort of Jeppesen subscription that you can use on the iPad, don't bother with iAIP at all. Anyway, the best feature is that iAIP makes it very easy to download the airport pages and store/view them offline. A recent update fixed this, but I hope that fix will work for the next AIRAC cycle as well. And I found that the Dutch pages were not accessible after an AIRAC cycle update - apparently the AIRAC cycle (which is part of the URL) is hard-coded in iAIP. Some of these however are behind a password so you need to enter the AIPs web password in iAIP to access. This little (and relatively inexpensive) app is just a convenient interface to the various AIPs that can be found on the web. There used to be a separate menu for that, but it's now integrated in the base chart functionality.Īlso a very tentative recommendation for iAIP. The latest update makes it much faster, although I do find flight plan management (particularly creating new plans and deleting them) more complex now. A bit pricey compared to other stuff in the iPad world, and you need to pay for each VFR chart separately, but well worth the money. ![]() I fly almost wholly IFR when abroad but a VFR map is necessary for the VFR sections of Z/Y flights, or on any IFR flight which involves collecting an airborne IFR clearance. Unfortunately FD cannot run the Jepp VFR Raster Charts, and cannot run any user-scanned charts, which rules out meaningful European VFR coverage. For IFR this is a reasonable backup to your panel IFR GPS. Jepp have just announced FliteDeck (a moving map prog previously bundled with Jeppview 3) for the Ipad. I see no option for general European VFR, because Oziexplorer is not (yet) available for the Ipad and that rules out the large number of "shared" ) maps. Somebody scanned in the 2010 CAA 1:500k charts and they run well a nice single QCT for all of the the UK. MM can run user-scanned charts if you get them into QCT but the process for this is complicated. the UK airport diagrams) is clumsy via the WIFI / browser transfer. One can transfer maps into its workspace (in the Church of Jobs ipad/iphone world, each app has its own data which other apps, generally, can't access) via WIFI, which works, but one can't (apparently) create directories so organising many maps is tricky. This is a crippled version of the PC MM program, but it works. ![]() It is also a very good PDF viewer, for approach plates.įor UK VFR, one can download Memory Map. I have got one of these, largely because I am spending many hours on JAA IR question bank swatting and it is convenient for lying down with, and later it will be handy around the house for casual The GPS works OK without GSM signal reception, in the TB20 with a composite roof.
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