I went with an Android pad, because of the requirement to get a cell capable iPad in order to get a gps chip (even though activation not required); just something that irritated me about apple. I run Garmin pilot. Panel mount on my 8, under the glare shield with a slight tilt down, no overheat issues. I am going to go back to the 696 though. I wanted moving map, adsb, flight plan in and out (flight stream 510, 635, and 345). So the pad worked. However, like the iPad at my other two jobs (one foreflight, one jepp pro), the Android is not 100%. Occasionally, like the iPads, it has a hiccup and never at the right time. The 696 while much older is designed exclusively for aviation and I never had issues with it before (even with an old database), it always worked. With a gdl 39 I can get adsb in and also squirt my flight plan from my 635, didn't realize this until recently. So the only thing I'll loose is being able to go from 696 (replace pad) to gtn. However, almost always I go from the pad to the gtn on start up only from preflight planning; I'll still have the pad in the cockpit probably on my knee so I can do this. Anyways, long story short is I quickly got tired of the pad as a primary reference for moving map and adsb and am going back to a 696.