Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350

Re:Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350 by FearlessNebula on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:22AM (#27590751)

Seriously, for $329 you can get an iPad with Foreflight that’s 100x smoother.

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Re:Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350 by durnygbur on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @08:42AM (#27590914)

Professional Garmin equipment is already orders of magnitude more expensive though.

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Re:Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350 by FearlessNebula on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:12AM (#27591150)

Foreflight on an iPad is fully certified

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Re:Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350 by brunooo on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:30AM (#27592935)

As a flight bag / printed material replacement.

Try tapping on Belfast Muni airport (KBST in ICAO) in Maine in ForeFlight, and the dataset consolidation will pull Bost airbase (BST in IATA) in Afghanistan. While it’s fairly obvious that you’re not going to Central Asia in your Piper, imagine pulling the 3x longer runway into your FMS and have it compute landing settings or add it as emergency alternate for your A350 into Boston.

It’s still completely different levels of reliability.

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Re:Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350 by ericpauley on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:51AM (#27593221)

Wow, just tried this and can confirm it pulls the wrong airport info. Interestingly searching KBST directly does not have this issue.

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Re:Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350 by alfalfasprout on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:28PM (#27597470)

Not for instrument flight it's not. You can view charts on it. You cannot use it as your primary instrument (except in an emergency).

That said... in practice it's a FAR better experience than crappy built-in avionics.

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