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I've been playing with the Orange Gadget's GPS dongle. http://www.orangegadgets.com/ I've been pretty happy with it's performance but it requires a jailbreak.
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GNS 5870 MFI
Take a look at this one. They have it on sporty's. I am about to buy an ipad but was wanting a better gps. This might work. |
The GNS is $129.99 @ sporty's. Making it $30 cheapers than Amazon. Mine should be in tomorrow. I'll let you know how it works. I think it will be better than the dongle thing hanging off the bottom of the IPad.
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The new iPad is supposed to be released in April and will have more inputs to include a USB port.
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I just traveled from Nashville to Denver to Ontario using my iPad and the Bad Elf GPS. Sitting by a window it worked really well in the SWA 737. Showed 38000 feet, 485kts. Locked on fairly fast and stayed on no problem. Didn't work too well from the middle seat of roll three. Itried both Foreflite and SkyCharts.
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GNS 5870 BlueTooth GPS
I have some of the GNS 5870 BlueTooth GPS units on order, if anyone is interested. See my classifieds post.
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Skychartspro does ALL of the charts, IFR-low, VFR, TAC, APP. How ever, the approach plates are not geo-referenced |
Received the GNS in the mail from Sporty's today. Turned it on and connected the blue tooth on the Ipad to the GNS. Foreflight works great with this device. Quick SAT lock and track very well. A piece of velcro and I'll tuck this little GPS easily out of the way in the cockpit. It comes with a USB charging cable and a car adaptor. It auto shuts off without a BT connection after 15minutes saving battery life.
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