Poll: what’s your backup?
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The iPad has been out for over six years now and has become a staple of cockpits big and small. From a legal standpoint, most GA pilots don’t need a backup when using it as the sole source of aviation charts in the cockpit, but backup paper charts or bringing a second iPad is cheap insurance. So we want to know, what type of backup do you bring along with you, if any at all?
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Ideal back up would be another Ipad running a different apps, in case of app crash
Wrong! When all modern technology fails, revert to what you were taught initially…read the map and make sure it is current, just like the pilot should be !