On Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 8:09:07 PM UTC-7, wrote:
I ended up spending the extra bucks for the iPad cellular, which includes a GPS chip. Yesterday and today were the first flight tests for IGlide on the iPad mini 4. And wow is it fantastic!

Task planning, including in flight decisions about how deep to fly into a cylinder, is a breeze. You just touch the way point, move it, and IGlide instantly recalculates the task distance and ETA to finish. The map is easy to read, very detailed, and scalable in any proportion.

The only wrinkle that I didn't like is that the "glide ratio" to a waypoint is the ratio that puts you in the ground there, not the ratio that puts you there at your safety altitude. My other minor complaint is that I does not recognize a start out the top of the start cylider. But you can start the task manually, so it's a minor inconvenience, but I suppose the joy of starting out the top of the cylinder makes up for that!

Overall it's really fantastic. Maybe I'll be able to retire that old pocket pc after all.

There is a quirk in iGlide that you should be aware of when flying AAT type tasks. The statistics including finish ETA etc. will show be based on: the your excursion into the cylinder, or the actual waypoint, whichever is furthest. If you turn short of the actual waypoint, the statistics will be off.. The way to fix this is to move the waypoint within the cylinder by touching and dragging it to a point closer than your actual turn. iGlide will then calculate the furthest excursion and snap the waypoint to that location.

Another quirk is that until you exit the cylinder, statistics for the rest of the task are calculated assuming you have not yet reached the waypoint and still need to. For example if you have a large cylinder around the last waypoint before the finish, as you glide towards the finish (but still inside the cylinder) you will see the altitude and time required to finish increase, even though you are getting closer to it. As soon as you exit the cylinder, it is all updated correctly. This is mainly a problem only on large cylinders.

I mention these things not to detract from the program which I think is the best out there, but because they are not well documented in the manual and can be confusing until you understand what is going on.