Yeah – I just went to look at an iPad as a b’day present (for meself) and when quizzed the so-called Apple expert finally acknowledged there is no GPS receiver built in to the iPad – you have to be in range of a 3G cell tower. Not a lot of use in the outback

Cheers

Dom Crain

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From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of H & J Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2010 1:21 PM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: iPad in the cockpit

 

Bob Are you positive that your unit has a built in GPS? I just upgrade my iPad from the standard wi-fi to the 3G + wi-fi and was wanting the unit w/ a GPS but was told that infact they do-not come w/ a GPS. There are 'GPS emulators' that make it work like a GPS but it isn't infact and gps.  I can't get any 'gps' functions to work on my w/out the 3G operating.

As to external GPS units that integrate w/ blue tooth, what or where does one get such a beast?

REALLY liking my iPAD for in-cockpit work. I did an entire trip last night central Canada to Denver and return to Canada w/ two stops and didn't pick up a single chart book or map [I have them still, I just don't use them]. It doesn't get better than that!! Esp when going into somewhere larger like Denver Metro area and getting 'yanked' around a bit switching up arrival plates or approach plates is a synch.

Couldn't recommend it enough!

Btw, to date [only been using a iPad for ~4 weeks] I've not had issue w/ heat or altitude and I generally fly Fl240 or Fl250 w/ a cabin alt of 7-8000'

Fwiw

Jarrett Johnson

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