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Old 03-16-2011, 06:34 AM
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I'm sorry, but to me there just is no place in the cockpit for non-aviation consumer electronics. They simply aren't built to aviation quality standards. If airplane parts failed as often as the cheap electronic junk we all own, then airplanes would be crashing left, right and center, and nobody would be brave enough to fly. Let's face it, the cheap prices you get on electronics are the result of a "use it and throw it away" engineering philosophy. They're not built to be relied upon.
I think the misunderstanding here is that someone thinks the IPad or another tablet device will be used as the PIC's PRIMARY navigation. I've looked back thru this and several other postings that have beat this to death and didn't find anyone saying that.
My IPad is a backup to my panel-mounted Garmin. Foreflight Mobile is a much better program than any Garmin software as far as user friendly. I have it on my IPhone too so one of them can be considered a backup to my backup. I'm not going to get lost!
The majority of the IPad/tablet bashing is being done by aviators/builders that don't even own one and never will. I think it's time to say "enough is enough". If you have a question, great, ask it. If you want to bash something over and over because you don't have anything else to do, get back in the workshop and finish your RV.
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