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Old 10-13-2015, 07:02 PM
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I won big today at a raffle and left work today with a wifi-only 16GB iPad. I've got a Garmin 396 and GNS 430 already, but something like Foreflight seems like it could be a great add. I've starting looking in to what accessories I'd need to make it work (my free prize is going to be expensive!)...

Does anyone have advice on a good nav app and how to best get GPS in? I don't think I'm ready to spend a few hundred bucks on ADS-B in yet...

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Old 10-13-2015, 09:05 PM
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I have both Foreflight and WingX and prefer WingX, although both have their points..

Try 'em.

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Old 10-14-2015, 06:45 AM
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Foreflight and a Stratus 2 will give you GPS, Weather, Traffic, synthetic vision, and a really cool (free) artificial horizon app.
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Old 10-14-2015, 07:13 AM
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Ifly is a great program. Yearly cost is quite reasonable. Works great on the internal GPS on android. IPad needs an external GPS I think?
For your GPS receiver you should look at DUAL.
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Old 10-14-2015, 10:58 AM
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Does anyone have advice on a good nav app and how to best get GPS in? I don't think I'm ready to spend a few hundred bucks on ADS-B in yet...
If you like Do-It-Yourself projects, you can build a dual band ADS-B receiver with WAAS GPS for about $160 that will talk WiFi to an Ipad running either WingX or Foreflight (and others, I believe).

https://www.reddit.com/r/stratux/

I built one and it seems to work well, and just 3D printed a case for it yesterday.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1019324

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Old 10-14-2015, 08:14 PM
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Great - thanks for all the good info
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Old 10-14-2015, 08:31 PM
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For an external gps the bad elf pro is a fantastic unit. I love mine.

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Old 10-19-2015, 06:05 PM
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Just bought all the parts for this - the winters can have a lot of 'no fly days' here, so now I have a project. Thanks for the info

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If you like Do-It-Yourself projects, you can build a dual band ADS-B receiver with WAAS GPS for about $160 that will talk WiFi to an Ipad running either WingX or Foreflight (and others, I believe).

https://www.reddit.com/r/stratux/

I built one and it seems to work well, and just 3D printed a case for it yesterday.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1019324

-Dj
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