Little Equipment Help

Let the poor bastard figure it out the hard way. If you have not seen the movie "Hall Pass", I think it should be a pre-req for anybody about to propose, so many one liner's that sum up the single to married transition, at least it rung true for me and about 10 buddies.

I wonder what the feasibility of issuing ipads to students in API and then using nothing but e-copies of pubs the rest of the way, (as well as FLIPs, etc...) would be.

Our ready room looks like a damn Starbucks when you walk in with all the iPads floating around.

They could always mandate carrying two of them when flying solo or whatever. Ipad + a backup Ipad still beats the hell outta 4 different approach plates/STARS/charts/AFD/IFR Supp and whatever else you've got to have with you.

Blue water, yeah no pubs.

Green/Brown water and no tanking, pubs. Pubs that covered 7 countries.

I've used the iPad pubs in the C-12 (a buddies' personal one, not issued) and it was outstanding. Almost like having a moving map again, but in some ways better.

For TACAIR? Not sure, but definitely worth a try. Aren't they using them in AFG these days?

Good. I had to carry around an accordion file full of GRGs.

PITA.

I wonder if they can use a search function? Or it's just a space saver?

Talking with guys who have used them to replace paper charts and plates in the T-45 they say they are awesome. It's easier to navigate and it takes less time to find stuff, which means more time spent on flying the airplane and working your scan. They are backlit, so no more trying to decipher what the thing says, and the screen is big enough and the ability to zoom means not having to figure out what the fine print is telling you.

Bad stuff- you can gouge up plates but it's very difficult. It's much easier to use a pen on a paper plate. The back light can be bright and distracting ( Not an issue under the hood where you turn everything up like a baseball park) from the front seat, so you have to play with dimmer settings. Not sure how it would work with NVGs.

Other cool stuff- you can plug a GPS receiver and it will track you across the Lo and Hi charts. Apparently they are working on linking it to plates as well. Someone makes a kneeboard strap for it, so you can slap the thing to your knee no prob.

the FltPlan.com app is extremely easy and searchable. From what I've seen from goofing off with foreflight is that it's even easier to use.

If I had an M3 or a Z06, I could have gotten to work faster, which would have enabled me to spend more time on my briefs, overall doing better in flight school. It is unfair that other studs had Vettes and M3s when I went through. This system is stacked against me!

I think we may have just found the answer to the "what % get jets?" question.....the same % that drive M3s and Vettes? New flight school motto: Vettes get ya Jets.

Good thread and discussion...but I find it amusing that we're getting excited about bringing our aircraft navigation technology up to speed with your average -172 driver.

I'm not upside down or underwater in mortgages, but I do drive a Saturn. Either way, I think spending $800 on something that's going to cost $300 in a year is fucking asinine. Maybe us old geezers are just better at spending money...

We must all live with our decisions...

Rounding 499 up to 800 is a little bit of a stretch
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Apple&#...lack/1945531.p?id=1218303031896&skuId=1945531

Besides, you should be using a Droid.

Only if I want to be annoyed at bad design.

Base model without cellular data access and only 16 gigs of space. the 64 gig one with a 3g sim card will run you 799. Now add the annual cost of foreflight and the cost of the gps adapter... It isn't cheap.

If you have 3G, GPS is built in. Is there a special one that's 'mo betta?

You're right, there's nothing better than the iProducts. They are perfect. (Which is why they come out with new ones every few months.)

Speaking of which, shouldn't you be in line for their latest and greatest?

I guess so. I don't have one. Saw a couple guys with a GPS thing that plugs into the one port.