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by durnygbur 1823 days ago
Professional Garmin equipment is already orders of magnitude more expensive though.
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FearlessNebula 1823 days ago
Foreflight on an iPad is fully certified
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brunooo 1822 days ago
As a flight bag / printed material replacement.

Try tapping on Belfast Muni airport (KBST in ICAO) in Maine in ForeFlight, and the dataset consolidation will pull Bost airbase (BST in IATA) in Afghanistan. While it’s fairly obvious that you’re not going to Central Asia in your Piper, imagine pulling the 3x longer runway into your FMS and have it compute landing settings or add it as emergency alternate for your A350 into Boston.

It’s still completely different levels of reliability.

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ericpauley 1822 days ago
Wow, just tried this and can confirm it pulls the wrong airport info. Interestingly searching KBST directly does not have this issue.
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alfalfasprout 1822 days ago
Not for instrument flight it's not. You can view charts on it. You cannot use it as your primary instrument (except in an emergency).

That said... in practice it's a FAR better experience than crappy built-in avionics.

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