On Apr 11, 4:25*pm, Mike Schumann
wrote:
On 4/11/2011 1:54 PM, Darryl Ramm wrote:







On Apr 11, 6:55 am, *wrote:
On Apr 11, 7:57 am, Victor *wrote:

On Apr 8, 4:58 am, *wrote:

Hello,

I am glider pilot and looking for a good navigation software running
on Ipad.

What would you propose?

Many thanks,
Bruno

Sorry, but I have to laugh at the iPAD fanboys (please forgive me if
you're not one of them). I recently attended a FIRC at which over 20
attendees were playing with their iPADs. During that two days, I
wanted to understand what kind of Aps made these devices worth having..
One guy showed me sectionals that cost him only $80 for an annual
subscription. How much do those old paper sections cost? Another
showed me real time weather maps (which is great if you didn't think
about checking the weather before heading out to the glider port). All
in all, the impression I got was that these "suckers" bought the iPAD,
then tried to justify owning them afterwards.

Now we have a fellow here who first bought an iPAD, and is now looking
for gliding software.

Let the war begin.

Actually if you do fly IFR foreflight for the iPad gets you all
sectionals, low alt enroutes, and approach charts for the entire US
for a year, and that's a pretty decent deal. Granted, once the battery
dies you're SOL, but I've flown with a friends iPad with foreflight,
and it was a pretty good app to have in a power plane.

If Andrej at Naviter made a port of see you along with a serial cable
to interface with our ancient PDAs and FRs, I think he'd sell quite a
few copies.

Pete

And ~$20 per year for SkyCharts Pro gets you current sections, enroute
high and low, TAF, Airport diagrams/directory, approach plates etc.
either streaming online or you can download with live METAR/TAF (if
you have connectivity). A handy reference also runs on the iPhone. I
know several glider pilots including myself who use SkyCharts or
SkyCharts Pro as handy sectional and airport references even if they
fly with paper charts.

Darryl

You can download sectionals from the FAA web site for free.

--
Mike Schumann

And that is very handy for technical folks but on a mobile device you
need a way to view them, manage them, compress them decompress them,
update them. Stream them dynamically or cache them. Geo reference them
etc. I could not for a second think about a $20 annual cost that gives
me all what SkyCharts Pro does. (and that $20 gives me a license that
works on both my iPhone and iPad. You can get a $10 version that does
a bit less.

Darryl