Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #55540
From: John Schroeder <jschroeder@perigee.net>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] ForeFlight Flight Information System, Moving Map, etc.
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:40:06 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
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.


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