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FrankR
Joined: 31 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:53 pm Post subject: EFB |
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Got a Vizio Tab 1008 Android tablet for christmas. The tablet costs around $200.
Loaded WingX and Avilution on it. Alot of redundency here. WingX is slick and cool. It does weather really well. But it does not have a moving map sectional.
Avilution pretty much is a moving map Sectional. The GPS on the tablet works wonderfully well. It has integrated A-F/D as well. Very handy.
The tablet is a slightly larger 8 inch model so the sectional actually makes sense. I can see the flight path of most of my 1-2 hour flights.
Both of them have E6B's that are a bit confusing. The whiz wheel is still working for me. |
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drseti
Joined: 28 Nov 2009
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Location: Lock Haven PA
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I went the iPad route a couple of months ago, with WingX, and have stopped carrying paper charts! Today I flew from Lock Haven PA to Columbia SC, using its moving map as primary nav (and the Garmin GPS as backup) and everything worked well. EFBs are definitely the future. |
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zaitcev
Joined: 05 Jan 2010
Posts: 258
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Another popular moving map application for Android is Naviator (note spelling). |
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comperini
Joined: 24 Feb 2008
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Location: California
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| Foreflight appears to be pretty popular too (Iphone/IPad) |
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designrs
Joined: 23 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| +1 ForeFlight and BadElph GPS |
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theoarno
Joined: 26 Mar 2010
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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I use Foreflight for iPad. The one thing I would like to see for it is a rotating screen such as they use in Google Earth.
I would like to be able to swivel the view around so I could Orient the map to direction of flight. |
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drseti
Joined: 28 Nov 2009
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Location: Lock Haven PA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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| WingX with the Synthetic Vision add-on has both those features. |
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