2011 Flyin in Ohio

[hharney]

The photo is when flying in the Twin Comanche several weeks ago. I have a Ram iPhone mount that I bought from Amazon for about $20 and it works great. Holds well and that is important while flying in some rough air. The Ram mounts just work best.

This photo shows the bearing to the destination in magenta line. It is pretty accurate although does not react or update the altitude and speed as quick as Foreflight. The gyro action is good but must be calibrated in level flight first and then if you change to another app or function when you come back to BB Flight you have to acknowledge the disclaimer and re-calibrate again. Might be distracting in IMC to have to do this.

[wfreestone]

I highly recommend the excellent Seattle Avionics SkyPad2 tablet Voyager EFB (Electronic Flight Bag):
which has an excellent optomizing (for lowest fuel prices, shorted flight route, and winds aloft) auto-routing flight planner, geo-referenced aircraft position (via a battery powered blue-tooth linked small WAAS GPS) on its VFR and IFR scanned and digital charts and IFR approach plates, automatic (no manual intervention other than having it on and connected to the internet) aviation data base updates, XM WX (via a blue-tooth linked receiver).
With its book style leather case open, it fits on my standard kneeboard via the kneeboard's standard spring chart clip.
There is availalble several subscription types, including a one-time $829 life-time subscription aviation ChartData database update (which I got for free when I purchased by SkyPad2 tablet EFB during a Thanksgiving Black Friday special).

I had previously compared it (in NOV 2010) with the iPAD and its various available aviation apps -- and consider it better. I still consider it better than the current iPAD available aviation apps.

For more info <http://www.seattleavionics.com/default.aspx>.
Or, see Seattle Avionics at Sun-N-Fun Fly-In this week (29 MAR - 02 APR 2011) in Lakeland, FL where (per their recent newsletter) Seattle Avionics has a special for the 1st 100 people who buy a SkyPad2 at Sun-N-Fun.

William W. Freestone
(an extremely pleased Seattle Avionics SkyPad2 tablet Voyager EFB customer).

[WebMaster]

ForeFlight, offers the Seattle Avionics mapping system for the iPad. The cost is $149. It gets you the geo-referenced approach plates. Personally, I can't imagine watching my geo-referenced approach plate while shooting an actual approach.

[WebMaster]

On the iPad

https://www.baronservices.com/news_pdf/MobileLink.pdf