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    Default Re: Paper chart vs iPad for VFR

    I use Garmin Pilot and an very happy with it, weather, current upto date airport information, TFR's, trip planning and SynVis are all good.
    It's also handy to have here on my desk to weather watch.

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    Default Re: Paper chart vs iPad for VFR

    I've been using the Ipad mini with Foreflight with a mount for the instrument panel. It has worked great so far even with the sun on it. There is a picture in my albums.
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    i run navigation pro and i love it is only 50$
    and you can buy only chart what you need

    i use my iphone 5 but is small .. ipad mini is my next
    gif for christmas

    David

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    I've got my iPad mini mounted on the panel with a Ram Mount X-grip holder. Stratus 2 ADSB receiver Velcro's to a small shelf I installed above the overhead tubes. Bluetooth connection from the iPad to my Lightspeed Zulu2 headset for Foreflight runway alerts as well as music. It's a great setup. A little hard to read airport frequencies across the cockpit due to my middle aged eyes, but I think it's perfect for my flying.

    I do carry current charts for my area as a backup - you never know when the software gods will frown down upon you.
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    Default Re: Paper chart vs iPad for VFR

    After flying both full size and mini, I recommend getting the mini. It is large enough and not too cumbersome in the cockpit. Go to a store and play with both of them. I think you will find handling the mini nicer.

    I highly recommend getting foreflight as well. The price of the ipad will be paid for quickly as charts aren't cheap and they go out of date. I have foreflight on my phone as a back up incase my ipad fails. To date, no failures.

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    Default Re: Paper chart vs iPad for VFR

    I forgot to mention before. You can put Foreflight on 2 ipads and 1 iphone with one subscription.
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    I have a Nexus 7 with the Avare software on it. I like it. New Nexus 7 was $149 with free shipping on ebay, so that's all I had to spend. Jim Chuk

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    I have the full size iPad 2 it's real too big to mount in the Cherokee I have a Ram mount and suction cup to the windshield but it blocks the radio/gps so I find because of the size I only use it on ocassion, thinking about a mini with a yoke mount

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    Default Re: Paper chart vs iPad for VFR

    I have an IPad Air full size put it on the floor right of my right leg pick it up when needed, or I set it on the passenger seat, no problems.
    Paul Zimmermann
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    Default Re: Paper chart vs iPad for VFR

    I fly with a sectional on my knee, and a E-6B, a plotter, and pencil, I quit
    using GPS about 5-6 years ago and have enjoyed flying a whole bunch more.
    I do have a Garmin GNC-250XL in the panel, but it's my backup for the
    sectional just in case it fails in flight ...

    Truth be told, I switched over when one day I thought to myself that I was
    getting lazy with the GPS, so I turned it off and tried to make way home
    and discovered quickly that my basic navigation skills were poor.

    After that I was determined to always know exactly where I was on the
    map, and not on the panel. So I switched over to the Old Fashioned way
    and haven't regretted it one bit.

    Jeff

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