You know you can do the thing with your fingers and show the exact distance, right?
Yes.
That's not what I was referring to. I used to be able to correlate an inch on my sectional to a given swath of land below. What I discovered, while exclusively using my iPad over the course of a round trip between Chicago and Houston is that there is no correlation between an inch on my iPad and anything... because an inch can be anything. I no longer had an intake innate sense of scale, and I found it vaguely disorienting.
It's a small drawback, but a drawback never the less. Also, quick access to the legend and the tower/frequency tab are points for paper.
That said, I love having Garmin pilot in my iPad, and a GDL-50 receiver paired to it. I download the briefing for my planned flight, but let's face it, I was traveling with my 3 year old. Planning is a loose term. 45 minutes into my three plus hour leg, someone has to go potty. No big deal, compare fuel prices at the logical choices, pull up the NOTAMs, I'm covered.
Add to it the compete A/FD and US Terminal Procedures... I'm not willingly giving up my iPad. That doesn't mean that I can't find paper to be superior in some respects.
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