The iPad’s software settings allows you to customize which apps can use your location to improve the user experience. While this is essential for moving map navigation apps in the airplane, you’ll find that it’s not necessarily important for all types of apps to be able to access this data. Here we’ll show you how to customize these settings to improve your iPad’s battery life.
Running out of battery power is a nightmare scenario for many pilots flying with iPads. The new Professional Power backup battery will give you peace of mind, providing plenty of backup power and four USB charging ports.
It’s important before each flight to properly configure the iPad’s wireless radios, especially when using a Bluetooth or WiFi accessory. Here are our recommended wireless settings for various iPad and accessory combinations.
While the iPad has delivered excellent reliability since the day it came out, there are still a few issues that can pop up if you’re not careful. Here we’ll review potential problems and how to resolve them.
This is part of a series where we ask different pilots what they carry when they fly with an iPad. Today we’ll hear from Bret Koebbe, CFI and editor at iPad Pilot News, to see what makes up his list of essential flight gear.
ForeFlight mobile offers several in-flight audio alerts to help get your attention at critical times. Here we’ll show you how to connect your iPad to your headset to hear these in the air.
The FuelBurn app tracks your fuel status in flight and alerts you when it’s time to switch tanks or when reaching a critical fuel state. We’ll show you how it works here.
The iPad was bigger than ever at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this year, with over 40 educational seminars on the topic and lots of new iPad product and app news. Here are the slides from two of the presentations covering essential iPad pilot tips and a pilot’s guide to the ADS-B system to review on your own schedule.
Garmin was busy this week with lots of new iPad-related product updates, including new releases of the iPad and Android versions of the app, and a preview of an all new Piper-specific version of the Garmin Pilot app.
CloudAhoy now allows pilots flying with Stratus 2 and 2S ADS-B receivers to export AHRS pitch and roll data into the app for a more realistic post-flight debrief. We’ll show you how it works here.
The Garmin Connext wireless cockpit system is now compatible with ForeFlight and Jeppesen apps, allowing them to receive GPS and ADS-B weather and traffic information from compatible panel-mount Garmin avionics.
The official 2015 EAA AirVenture Oshkosh show app is now available for iPhone and iPad, and includes an exciting interactive GPS map and enhanced notification features to help you get the most out of your visit to AirVenture.
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