Foreflight now has Jeppesen Charts

[ghancock]

Well, the one thing I was missing with Foreflight that Garmin had has now been eliminated.  You can now purchase Jeppesen charts and access them through Foreflight and they've also upgraded their custom map view so its more inline with Garmin Pilot.  So we're getting even closer to a perfect iPad GPS app.

Glenn

[ghancock]

Cancel that last comment about the map looking better.  It still has same flat coloring so Garmin still wins that race.   I had Sat view on which tricked me :-)

Glenn

[donv]

I've been using Garmin Pilot for a while, and I really like some aspects of it (I never got into Foreflight, although I have used FltPlan Go a bunch).

The big issue for me about Garmin Pilot is that it just kills the iPad battery, even when it's in the background-- in fact, especially when it's in the background.

[ghancock]

If you start using Foreflight you'll find a few other things that bug you that you don't realize at the moment.  ie: The garmin pilot airport page is a complete mess.  I was working with their engineers to correct it but they never got to it and don't seem interested.  So I just gave up.  Foreflight has so many other aspects to it that you'll grow to love that Pilot just can't do.  They also add new 20 new features to Garmins 1 and over time that adds up.

Another cool feature is if you need to shoot an approach you can go to Foreflight and click approaches, select the one you are flying, which approach point you'll be entering at and it will not only get the chart ready for you but it changes you're entire course to flying each waypoint.  So you have complete and total situational awareness during the entire segment.

Anyway,  Garmin Pilot is not a bad app but Foreflight is much more capable.  Oh, and btw: I'm a complete Whore when it comes to software.  I want the best no matter who's it is so if Garmin got better I'd switch to it tomorrow.  I also have both apps installed and regularly play with both to keep up with them so not just talking.

Glenn