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Subject: Re: [LML] ForeFlight Flight Information System, Moving Map, etc.
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Hi John -

Thanks for the summary of Fore Flight. I tried it on a demo basis on an  
iPad 3G for a couple of hours. There is lots to love about it. However,  
after seeing the Flight Guide iEFB app at Sun N Fun, I'm going to wait to  
see their final product before buying. On the whole, I liked it better.  
But as Ron Galbraith says - it will only get better. Hopefully, there is a  
printing capability and a USB capability in its future. I understand that  
Voyager is going to port their system to the iPad. I currently use that on  
a PC/Windows-based Motion LS800. I have a huge amount of energy and work  
invested in the area under the learning curve, and may want to keep that  
investment. However, the iPad version had better have a simpler interface  
and about a 30-50% reduction in buttons to tap on the screen :-))

Let me know off line how it is going. I did test it in direct sunlight. It  
is better than the LS800 and very functional.

Cheers,

John Schroeder
ES - 348 hours.


On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:52:37 -0400, John Hafen <j.hafen@comcast.net> wrote:

> Gents,
>
> I hope this doesn't sound like an advertisement, but I wanted to share  
> with you a pretty handy tool that I have been using.
>
> Check out:  http://www.foreflight.com/
>
> I bought it for my iPhone originally (I think it's about $75/year).  I  
> used it mostly for weather information (I live in Seattle), but it  
> offered lots of other capability as well.  The only problem was the  
> small size of the iPhone --  even though you could easily zoom in -- not  
> ideal.
>