Foreflight version 4.9 was just released and supports track up

soyAnarchisto wrote:Foreflight version 4.9 was just released and supports track up

What is "track up". I went to the Foreflight web site and they said it is a new feature, but didn't describe what it does.

Nizina wrote:

soyAnarchisto wrote:Foreflight version 4.9 was just released and supports track up

What is "track up". I went to the Foreflight web site and they said it is a new feature, but didn't describe what it does.

I haven't upgraded yet but I would expect that feature to always have your track oriented toward the top of your screen, as opposed to North up, which orients north to the top of the screen.

Is anyone else using the IHUD app? or after actually using it did you find that it was not worth buying? I have a bare bones panel and while I would never use my phone for basic navigation etc, it may be nice to have something to help keep the wings level in the event that my dumb ass gets surrounded by low clouds or a snow squall... I think that has happened to a buddy of mine before and I heard it puckered him right up

I like GPS Tuner. Makes the iPhone 5 act like a GPS for hiking. Lat, Lon, MPH, MSL. If you have internet use several types of maps. If off line use maps you have down loaded.

G'Day

Nizina wrote:

soyAnarchisto wrote:Foreflight version 4.9 was just released and supports track up

What is "track up". I went to the Foreflight web site and they said it is a new feature, but didn't describe what it does.

which ever way you are going the airplane is at the bottom of the screen and up is the direction you're going like a normal GPS. Now all the chart info moves around the little plane, so now we need to ask them to orient the writing horizontal always so you don't have to read upside down

I personally have always preferred North Up, and always have to change the 496 map setting back from Track Up whenever I fly the rentals.

Zzz wrote:I personally have always preferred North Up, and always have to change the 496 map setting back from Track Up whenever I fly the rentals.

Zzz, Do you have to look at a map from the bottom and then turn North to find where you are at?

GT

Track up doesn't do much good if the writing is all oriented as if North is up. WingX works track up because they use Seattle Avionics chard data - which has separate layers for the graphics and labels. ForeFlight uses the publically available FAA data - and those chards are just a big graphic all mushed together oriented like the paper charts.

I've not had a chance to demo the track up feature of foreflight - but I suspect it will still suck. I don't care anyway - I have no problem with north up - been doing it that way since I started training - and I'm used to it. Even in the back country with a topo map for hiking - I never turn the map away from North. Seems to me track-up versus north-up is a religious debate.

North up is the only way to fly. Track up is for heathens.

OregonMaule wrote:North up is the only way to fly. Track up is for heathens.

GT

OregonMaule wrote:North up is the only way to fly. Track up is for heathens.

North up is for people that don't know which way is up Track up is for people that know where they want to go

In the "Work" airplane (hours of boredom), I use "North Up" for the En-route phase.
When I start working the arrival phase, I switch to "Track Up". That way, the displays match the compass.
If I had only one choice, it would be Track Up.
But that's just me..... an' old fart that really doesn't care for all this automation/gizmo shit

Always preferred the view outside the plane over the view inside.

Ok, I'm a techno have-not. Trying to enter the current century but need somebody to explain some things. I bought this iPad mini, Verizon 3G, gizmo. I plan to put something like Foreflight on it.

So the question is: when I'm tooling along at Mach .002 in my Maule, navigating off this thing, I'm assuming it is keeping up to date with weather and TFR's by eating data through the Verizon account. How much data does it require? The folks I talk to who have an iPhone say that they don't do much navigating with it because it's so data intensive. If walking around Frankfurt trying to find a restaurant eats data, I would assume flying around the Pacific Northwest would make the accountants at Verizon smile.

Anyone running one of these things that can offer insight into a reasonable data plan?

Thanks,

Mr. Ed

I've always been a heathen...

Gump

Mr. Ed wrote:Ok, I'm a techno have-not. Trying to enter the current century but need somebody to explain some things. I bought this iPad mini, Verizon 3G, gizmo. I plan to put something like Foreflight on it.

So the question is: when I'm tooling along at Mach .002 in my Maule, navigating off this thing, I'm assuming it is keeping up to date with weather and TFR's by eating data through the Verizon account. How much data does it require? The folks I talk to who have an iPhone say that they don't do much navigating with it because it's so data intensive. If walking around Frankfurt trying to find a restaurant eats data, I would assume flying around the Pacific Northwest would make the accountants at Verizon smile.

Anyone running one of these things that can offer insight into a reasonable data plan?

Thanks,

Mr. Ed

You're more than likely not going to get much data once you're airborne anyway unless you're flying over the city all the time, just download as much of the current data you can before you take off, and then buy something that you can get XM weather on.

Hafast wrote:

Mr. Ed wrote:Ok, I'm a techno have-not. Trying to enter the current century but need somebody to explain some things. I bought this iPad mini, Verizon 3G, gizmo. I plan to put something like Foreflight on it.

So the question is: when I'm tooling along at Mach .002 in my Maule, navigating off this thing, I'm assuming it is keeping up to date with weather and TFR's by eating data through the Verizon account. How much data does it require? The folks I talk to who have an iPhone say that they don't do much navigating with it because it's so data intensive. If walking around Frankfurt trying to find a restaurant eats data, I would assume flying around the Pacific Northwest would make the accountants at Verizon smile.

Anyone running one of these things that can offer insight into a reasonable data plan?

Thanks,
Mr. Ed

You're more than likely not going to get much data once you're airborne anyway unless you're flying over the city all the time, just download as much of the current data you can before you take off, and then buy something that you can get XM weather on.

It seems to work okay for me, Last fourth of July I flew from Riverside KRIR To Muskegon Michigan Using the iPad and ForeFlight Never opened a paper chart, I was also using my Garmin 560 with XM weather.
The combination of the two was invaluable. It's not hard to learn, I'm using a combination of Wi-Fi and cellular.

Glidergeek wrote:

Hafast wrote:

Mr. Ed wrote:Ok, I'm a techno have-not. Trying to enter the current century but need somebody to explain some things. I bought this iPad mini, Verizon 3G, gizmo. I plan to put something like Foreflight on it.

So the question is: when I'm tooling along at Mach .002 in my Maule, navigating off this thing, I'm assuming it is keeping up to date with weather and TFR's by eating data through the Verizon account. How much data does it require? The folks I talk to who have an iPhone say that they don't do much navigating with it because it's so data intensive. If walking around Frankfurt trying to find a restaurant eats data, I would assume flying around the Pacific Northwest would make the accountants at Verizon smile.

Anyone running one of these things that can offer insight into a reasonable data plan?

Thanks,
Mr. Ed

You're more than likely not going to get much data once you're airborne anyway unless you're flying over the city all the time, just download as much of the current data you can before you take off, and then buy something that you can get XM weather on.

It seems to work okay for me, Last fourth of July I flew from Riverside KRIR To Muskegon Michigan Using the iPad and ForeFlight Never opened a paper chart, I was also using my Garmin 560 with XM weather.
The combination of the two was invaluable. It's not hard to learn, I'm using a combination of Wi-Fi and cellular.

He was talking about getting current weather and TFRs enroute with the iPad using his Verizon data plan, not gonna happen consistently at altitude outside of a populated area. Like you I use XM weather on my Garmin, and my iPad for charts, but the charts are downloaded and updated before you leave. You can get an ADS-B receiver for your iPad and get the weather and TFRs if you are near a ground station, but they are pretty spotty too, we use one in the King Air all the time, even at FL270 they're still iffy.

Garmin Glo for Aviation.

This little bit of kit is the gps reciever you would need to get basic function out of a tablet running the Garmin aviation app.


Garmin GDL39

This little bit of kit is what will give you full function including weather and traffic. (A lot more $$$$)

Foreflight with the new stratus supports Traffic! Awesome! Also has attitude indicator with ADHRS.

Now if they would just implement the NMEA signal so I can change the radio frequency - my ipad would be a complete glass panel for my non-electric J3C.

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