Using your iPad on a Caribbean flying trip

Today you can confidently navigate the islands with everything you need right on your iPad, including geo-referenced VFR and IFR en route charts, airport and airspace databases, synthetic vision and even ADS-B weather in certain spots. Here we're going to take a closer look at ForeFlight Mobile and Garmin Pilot, since they offer the most comprehensive resources for Caribbean-bound pilots.

MyRadar adds weather maps to CarPlay app

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MyRadar recently added Apple CarPlay support, allowing you to view a weather radar overlay on interactive driving maps in the car.

Quiz: ForeFlight badges, labels and alerts

ForeFlight is much more than just an airport directory and moving map on your iPad. It's smart, always analyzing each piece of data you input and calling out errors or abnormalities you may have overlooked. Our latest quiz takes a look at some of these to help you better understand what is going on under the hood.

App troubleshooting: how to close, delete and restart

Everyone knows how to open an app on the iPad--just tap the icon and it's off to the races. But what about closing apps--do you know the difference between sleeping an app, shutting down an app and deleting an app? It's an important distinction that comes into play when an app starts misbehaving.

View an interactive map of your 2023 flying in ForeFlight

ForeFlight's 2023 Recap feature allows pilots to view all the airports they visited last year on a map and a summary of key flight stats.