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Old 11-20-2010, 09:18 PM
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I just went on the Amazon link from the Foreflight blog and they quote a price of $99 with free shipping. Maybe they worked it out with the mfr to sell in bulk now. Looks like a great gadget.

Bill Near
The Bad Elf dongle GPS is $99 with free shipping, but the GNS bluetooth GPS is $99 + $60 shipping.
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Old 11-22-2010, 08:05 PM
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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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Old 12-23-2010, 07:43 AM
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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.
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Old 12-23-2010, 08:25 AM
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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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Old 12-23-2010, 08:30 AM
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The new iPad is supposed to be released in April and will have more inputs to include a USB port.


I am waiting!
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Old 12-23-2010, 08:46 PM
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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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Old 12-27-2010, 08:49 AM
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Default 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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Old 12-29-2010, 07:02 AM
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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.
The embedded GPS in the iPad absolutely will not get a fix in an airliner under any circumstances, so this is very encouraging to hear.
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Old 12-29-2010, 08:04 AM
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I have some of the GNS 5870 BlueTooth GPS units on order, if anyone is interested. See my classifieds post.
Guys, this is what you need. It is a little bigger than a credit card. charged it up, and threw it up on the dash. It connects via bluetooth to the IPAD. I used sky charts pro. The little airplane followed me through three different sectionals on the Ipad flying from Alabama to South Carolina. Basically, I now have a backup GPS independant of anything else in the airplane.
Skychartspro does ALL of the charts, IFR-low, VFR, TAC, APP. How ever, the approach plates are not geo-referenced
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Old 12-31-2010, 04:23 PM
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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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