AltitudeAlert is one of our favorite supplemental apps and continues to add new features year after year. The latest update includes an in-flight VNAV planning feature that allows you to easily comply with IFR crossing restrictions and plan for comfortable VFR descents.
While iPad apps like ForeFlight have consolidated all the flight planning resources in one convenient location, you have to know where to look in the app to find key data when planning a flight. Test your knowledge on some of these gotchas in our latest quiz.
One of ForeFlight’s strengths compared to other aviation apps is its ability to take common flight planning data and present it in meaningful ways to help pilots make better-informed decisions. The latest update, version 12.1, continues this focus with three new features designed to help with route planning on the ground and reduce workload in the air when viewing datalink weather imagery.
Pilots trust the iPad because it is easily the most reliable and functional tablet available today. Even with this reliability, it’s important that you periodically take time and dive deeper into your iPad’s settings, apps and accessories to make sure everything is configured properly to ensure peak performance.
Having trouble finding an installed app on your iPad? Use this tip to quickly locate and launch a lost app in a matter of seconds.
More and more connected panel options are hitting the market, allowing you to wirelessly connect your iPad to panel-mount GPS and ADS-B receivers. Here’s a rundown of all the aftermarket GA avionics options and mobile app compatibility with each.
There’s no shortage of weather resources available to pilots in today’s popular EFB apps and they all do a great job at presenting text weather reports, interactive radar imagery and complete weather briefings for pilots. Sometimes though you just need a quick glance at the latest radar imagery, or view the updated METAR to see how things are trending. Yes, you […]
There are a wide variety of iPad apps available designed for pilots flying turbine airplanes, including performance planning, support directories and international trip support. Check them out here in this comprehensive listing.
The hidden Control Center screen remains one of the most useful features on iPhone and iPad, allowing you to quickly access commonly-used settings and apps. It’s especially useful during iPad preflight, allowing you to quickly optimize wireless and network settings before takeoff without the need to leave your EFB app.
There are no shortage of aviation apps available in the app store, and this list is designed to help expand your app horizons and check out some new aviation apps you might not have heard of yet.
Garmin recently introduced a new GTN training course to bring the GTN 650 and GTN 750 Pilot’s Guide to life with videos, animations, and tips and tricks. The course is available for iPhone and iPad in Sporty’s Pilot Training app.
Over the past decade we have written hundreds of articles here at iPad Pilot News with tips for pilots, app and accessory reviews, the latest news and of course the famous iPad app debates. To make things easier, we’ve collected our most popular educational articles and videos designed to help get pilots off to the right start with the iPad in the cockpit.
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