I never did ForeFlight, I went straight from JeppFD to Garmin Pilot.

That said, I don't know where Garmin Pilot gets the approach data from... I don't have FliteCharts on my iPad, but I do have Jepps, so I assume it is extracting the data from the Jepp database?

I've started flying with them. I have been a longtime Foreflight user, tried Garmin Pilot for a while, went back to Foreflight for its intuitiveness. I'm now trying Pilot again to see about these SmartCharts and so far am pretty impressed. They not only make the approaches very intuitive, they let you filter out only the information for your category, and for any exceptions (AWOS not available, radar required, whatever) so you don't see a lot of irrelevant fine type, but still see everything you need.

They also have made the baseline Pilot app significantly better. One reason I am checking it out is Boeing sold Foreflight (and Jepp) to a PE company called Thoma Bravo, who have a reputation for raising prices and cutting services to customers, so.....

Not sure why Garmin would need any information from Jepp charts to do this: it is a whole new way of giving us approach guidance, after lo these many years!

David

Anyone tried this? It looks really interesting. They have taken terminal charts and re-thought them for a digital presentation, as opposed to just showing an image of the paper chart.

I believe they are using NACO charts, so it will be interesting to see if Jeppesen does something similar or allows Garmin to use their charts as a basis. Given that Jeppesen is ending paper charts soon (yes, I still like Jeppesen paper enroute charts), it makes me wonder if I will bother with Jeppesen at all in the future.

Actually, now that I am thinking about it, it wasn't the steering, it reduced the braking pressure and was a little pressure reducer on the hydraulic line on the gear. Sorry for the misdirection!

I remember the Shrikes that I flew having very sensitive steering (and brakes) compared to the Turbo Commanders. I know on a Turbo Commander that the steering is not powerful enough to move the nosewheel while the aircraft is stopped, but I'm not sure if that was also true of the Shrikes or not.

Spot on - no Commander is scrubbing the nose tire at a standstill unless it’s on ice.

Hopefully this link will work and we’ll have some fun, I hope you all can join us:

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:8a7aab2a-0d78-4a44-b2de-d1e69bafd706