FAA OKs iPad for Pilots’ Charts

[mshunter]

With fore flight you just type in the fix you are looking for and it centers it on the screen, no panning required.

All well and good when you know what your looking for. But I find them useful for approach plates, and approach plates alone. Say you are enroute, and the owner changes his mind. He wants to turn his 3 hour stop into a 15 minute "just drop off the pay checks and we'll go here now" stop. I have had to pull out Enroutes before and do the flight planning/call FSS while trying to brief an approach and fly the airplane and get it all done in a matter of minutes. Panning would have been a PITA. Yeah, I understand that that is a very rare occurance, but it's only one example. And if you forget to charge tha dang battery, they need to make an adaptor that works on 24-28 volts, not just 12.

You guys can have your do-dads and widgets. I'll take my paper enroutes and 800-WX-Brief thanks. (But I do love me some Avidyne MX-500 with app. plates )

 

[embraer07]

Just heard on Friday that over here at Eagle they are now authorizing pilots to carry their FM and AOM manuals loaded on an Ipad instead of the actual bulky manuals we have now. The catch is that apparently Eagle has only authorized the Ipad 1 for some reason.

 

[scooter2525]

You guys can have your do-dads and widgets. I'll take my paper enroutes and 800-WX-Brief thanks. (But I do love me some Avidyne MX-500 with app. plates )

You got SAS (shiny avionics syndrome). Terrible plague.

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

True, but that's an easy work around. I enter the route and favorite it. Then it's simply clear the route, type the fix name, find what you are looking for, then either reselect the route from the favorites list or enter your new clearance from the fix you just found.

Don't even have to "favorite it." It's at the top of the "Recent" pull down.

 

[RDoug]

Anyone else find it odd that the FAA would do this less than eighteen months after two pilots overshot Minneapolis while using a laptop in the cockpit? I mean, how are you going to govern against using other apps installed on the iPad, which is basically a tablet computer with a software keyboard?

 

[IslandFlyer]

Anyone else find it odd that the FAA would do this less than eighteen months after two pilots overshot Minneapolis while using a laptop in the cockpit? I mean, how are you going to govern against using other apps installed on the iPad, which is basically a tablet computer with a software keyboard?

They were sleeping....

 

[RDoug]

They were sleeping....

Yeah, you and I know that . . . but they never admitted to it. ;o)

 

[ZeroPapaGolf]

Anyone else find it odd that the FAA would do this less than eighteen months after two pilots overshot Minneapolis while using a laptop in the cockpit? I mean, how are you going to govern against using other apps installed on the iPad, which is basically a tablet computer with a software keyboard?

Are you expecting the FAA to ban portable electronics in the cockpit?

 

[RDoug]

Are you expecting the FAA to ban portable electronics in the cockpit?

Obviously not anymore.

 

[nocturnalaviator]

I can see it now, "Pilots overshot their destination, and declared a fuel emergency. ipads confiscated and found Angry Birds running in background."

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[jtrain609]

Anyone else find it odd that the FAA would do this less than eighteen months after two pilots overshot Minneapolis while using a laptop in the cockpit? I mean, how are you going to govern against using other apps installed on the iPad, which is basically a tablet computer with a software keyboard?

Probably an admin password, it's not hard to lock this stuff down.

 

[Firebird2XC]

I'm looking forward to this. The three giant binders of plates- most of which I'll never use- are getting old.

I'm not keen on having to buy an iPad, but if the system was genuinely adopted, I likely would.

 

[scooter2525]

I'm looking forward to this. The three giant binders of plates- most of which I'll never use- are getting old.

I'm not keen on having to buy an iPad, but if the system was genuinely adopted, I likely would.

Wouldn't your employer provide them?

 

[Roger, Roger]

Wouldn't your employer provide them?

Yeah wouldn't they do something similar to the ship sets concept, but with iPads?

 

[Crockrocket94]

Does anyone have a good method of holding them in the cockpit via a clip or mount? Our company is looking at going paperless with the IPAD + Jepp VIEW.

 

[scooter2525]

Does anyone have a good method of holding them in the cockpit via a clip or mount? Our company is looking at going paperless with the IPAD + Jepp VIEW.

If my memory serves correctly, the 135 company that recently was approached was required to use kneepads for them when shooting approaches.

 

[Crockrocket94]

EJM? Yeah I think I heard that as well.

 

[Bumblebee]

you know I have found it a bit cumbersome so far...I have the iPad2 and it is difficult to put it in a place where it doesn't reflect light or block part of the windscreen.

Does anyone have a good method of holding them in the cockpit via a clip or mount? Our company is looking at going paperless with the IPAD + Jepp VIEW.

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

you know I have found it a bit cumbersome so far...I have the iPad2 and it is difficult to put it in a place where it doesn't reflect light or block part of the windscreen.

I found that to be an issue on my first flight - and discovered that I had the backlighting turned down low (duh).

Other than that, the glare has been a non-issue. It's certainly there but considering that I only look at it the same amount of time I would look at a paper chart, a momentary movement of my leg or hand is all it takes to make it completely readable.

 

[Firebird2XC]

Wouldn't your employer provide them?

Yeah wouldn't they do something similar to the ship sets concept, but with iPads?

You'd think, but with contract talks looming and the penny pinching ways of management, etc, if they can find a way to pass the cost on to us, they would.