Garmin today announced a major upgrade for its popular Garmin Pilot iPad app — we’ve already been flying a beta version of it for a week now — and this one might be a game changer. There are a few cool new features: version 5.0 adds track up, chart annotating and cloud-based syncing (so your flight plans are available on any device you use to run Garmin Pilot). But all of these pale in comparison to one update, which makes Garmin Pilot in many respects a brand new product.
This feature is what Garmin refers to as dynamic mapping, and Garmin is not the first to market with this feature, though its implementation of it is extremely well done.
