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Dick Baker
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Why I Want an Apple iPad
from Dick Baker
wrote 2 years 15 weeks ago
"I'm an Apple ACSA and I would LOVE to know if there is a moving map/flight planning package in development for ANY Apple hardware."
I'm pretty impressed with a nifty $10 iPhone app that I now use as my backup GPS. It shows your location on a moving sectional (or IFR or TAC) chart, along with ground speed and heading. If you plug in a destination, it shows a line to the destination and displays bearing, distance and ETE to that destination.
Way too small to use as a primary GPS, but if my Lowrance should fail, this could easily serve as a backup.
Look for SkyCharts at the Apps store or skycharts.net on the web.
Mastering the Metar
from Dick Baker
wrote 17 weeks 1 day ago
Nuts. Tweets are for iPhones and pre-teenage attention spans. The delivery time difference between a METAR that is condensed/abbreviated to the point of imcomprehensibilty and one that is decoded into plain English is scarcely perceptible in modern delivery modes. Why make it harder than it has to be to get vital WX info?




