Garmin’s Connext system offers a direct link between installed Garmin avionics and the Garmin Pilot and ForeFlight iPad apps. This allows pilots to stream weather, traffic and GPS information from the panel to an iPad and more. Learn all about how it works and the benefits it can provide in this informative video presented by Garmin’s Michael Kerrigan and hosted by iPad Pilot News.
We’re starting to see an uptick in update activity from just about every aviation app developer as we near the start of the spring flying season and the winter weather begins to break. Here’s what’s new in WingX Pro, FltPlan Go and FlyQ.
ForeFlight offers the ability to continuously monitor your position, altitude and flight profile to provide a number of in-app audio and visual alerts. Here we’ll go through each alert type to show how to enable them and what they mean.
The free datalink weather component of the ADS-B network has been a big hit with iPad pilots flying with portable ADS-B receivers. But how well do you really know the system? Test your knowledge here in our latest quiz.
Time to get current on iPad regulations. In this detailed article, we explain what you need to know to stay legal with your iPad in the cockpit, including a review quiz and helpful flow chart.
The iPad is one of the best consumer tablets on the market for pilots, thanks to its bright screen, great battery life and aviation application support. It’s not perfect, though, and our latest video tip explores a few of the”gotchas” that can sneak up on you if you’re not careful.
CloudAhoy has found a lot of fans among general aviation pilots because of its powerful flight logging and debriefing tools. The new version 5.0 expands its usefulness by bringing new technology to its flight analysis features and offering the ability to display your international track logs on worldwide charts.
The landscape for full-featured EFB apps continues to evolve rapidly as developers push the limits of the iPad’s capability with exciting new features. This chart represents the latest comparison of the most popular EFB apps available today.
Sporty’s has been in the E6B flight computer business since the company started in the early 1960s. Today the newest version of Sporty’s E6B is now available, extending the full functionality of the mobile app version to the Apple Watch.
After the iPad was released in 2010, pilots quickly realized that the tablet was far more useful with an accurate position source. Initially there were very few options for pilots, but the market has rapidly expanded and there are more choices than ever. How do you pick the right one?
Several years ago we published an eBook that combined our most popular articles and top 10 lists into a single resource. It doesn’t take long though for the information in technology publications to get old, so we’ve updated and expanded the eBook with over twice the content of the previous edition to cover the latest information for pilots.
ForeFlight released their first big update for 2017, adding new preflight weather features, chart color inversion for en route charts and approach plates, logbook enhancements and a few new in-flight utilities.
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