Well it seems NavCanada has finally decided to join the 21st century. Foreflight is now offering electronic charts for Canada.
http://blog.foreflight.com/2013/07/03/c ... app-store/

Just in time for my trip to BC at the end of the month. Awesome job Foreflight!

What a damn relief.

Yea I sure wasn't looking forward to buying paper charts and then having my nephew hold it while moving a toy airplane over it so I knew where I was. Phew!

Barnstormer wrote:Yea I sure wasn't looking forward to buying paper charts and then having my nephew hold it while moving a toy airplane over it so I knew where I was. Phew!

Haha, I can relate to that!

Last year on my way north I bought the paper vfr charts and used the IFR low charts on the iPad, this will be much better! Was just buying oil filters from AC spruce online and noticed my $120 chart order from last year for that trip......

Bought paper charts a month ago. Damnit.

It was kinda fun navigating through Canada with the paper charts. I was one step from circling a couple water towers to figure out where the hell i was. I marked the route on my VNCs with a magenta(ish) highlighter for good GPS habit transfer.

Brett

Just upgraded my subscription to foreflight Canada! No more US sectionals that ended 80nm north of my home airport.

You have to upgrade your subscription through the website. It's more expensive at $150/yr, and another $75/yr if you want the US sectionals as well.

I elected to only get the Canadian version, I don't plan on crossing the border anytime soon. It automatically refunded me the reminder of my US subscription ($40 for ~6 months).

swixtt wrote:have you updated yours skinner?
i had the US one loaded on mine and just used the geo-maps while flying. worked quite well and much more detail on the mountain valley's than the Garmin hand-helds.
i am about to renew and only see the IFR one as a selection... i am assuming the VNC's will come along with it? just curious if you've updated yours or renewed it?

I run a garmin aera 500. I really have had bad luck with apple products, but am thinking I may have to get an ipad mini.
Just wondering, with the foreflight, doesvit show your airplane over the vnc as you are flying?
David

A1Skinner wrote:

swixtt wrote:have you updated yours skinner?
i had the US one loaded on mine and just used the geo-maps while flying. worked quite well and much more detail on the mountain valley's than the Garmin hand-helds.
i am about to renew and only see the IFR one as a selection... i am assuming the VNC's will come along with it? just curious if you've updated yours or renewed it?

I run a garmin aera 500. I really have had bad luck with apple products, but am thinking I may have to get an ipad mini.
Just wondering, with the foreflight, doesvit show your airplane over the vnc as you are flying?
David

It sure does, in either a "track up" or "north up" configurations. Has a lot more features than I'm willing to type. If you have data, you can check the metar for any airport, and it automatically gives you the crosswind and headwind component for each runway. If you plan a flight in the map page, it calculates the estimated time using the current upr level winds. Just a few of the features I appreciate.

Just wondering, with the foreflight, doesvit show your airplane over the vnc as you are flying?

It does show it on sectionals, FWIW, and with the FF Pro, it shows the airplane icon geo-referenced on all of the IFR charts, hi, low, approach, and taxi. So I'd suspect it would show it on the VNCs, too. Foreflight is really pretty amazing.

Cary

FarmerFranck wrote:

A1Skinner wrote:

swixtt wrote:have you updated yours skinner?
i had the US one loaded on mine and just used the geo-maps while flying. worked quite well and much more detail on the mountain valley's than the Garmin hand-helds.
i am about to renew and only see the IFR one as a selection... i am assuming the VNC's will come along with it? just curious if you've updated yours or renewed it?

I run a garmin aera 500. I really have had bad luck with apple products, but am thinking I may have to get an ipad mini.
Just wondering, with the foreflight, doesvit show your airplane over the vnc as you are flying?
David

It sure does, in either a "track up" or "north up" configurations. Has a lot more features than I'm willing to type. If you have data, you can check the metar for any airport, and it automatically gives you the crosswind and headwind component for each runway. If you plan a flight in the map page, it calculates the estimated time using the current upr level winds. Just a few of the features I appreciate.

Thanks Franck. How much data does this feature use? Over in Ab we get hosed pretty hard for data.
Now if the could give me the crosswind components for all the sandbars along the river... land places like that a lot more then actual airports.

Measuring foreflight's data usage has been on my to-do list. Apple doesn't seem to have a feature to measure individual app data usage like my android does. My plan is to link my ipad to my android, drive around for an hour in map view with radar "on", and see what I can come up with for a "mb per hour" rate.

Stay tuned! (Should be able to get a result within a week)

That would be awesome! Thanks Franck. One more question, if I let the subscription lapse, can I still use the charts from last year, or do I have nothing?