Software for glider pilots running on Ipad

On Apr 8, 9:18*am, Jim wrote:
On Apr 8, 1:58*am, nimbus wrote:

Hello,

I am glider pilot and looking for a good navigation software running
on Ipad.

What would you propose?

Many thanks,
Bruno

My Ipad has been rock solid reliable.

I've gotten Glide Path, Final Glide, *and Track Log from the app
store, hope to get some experience with them as the season starts I
also use WxRadar.

My Garmin 396 in the Super Cub doesn't have a private airport
database, the Ipad came in handy last month when looking for an
private airport that I hadn't been to in a while. I used skycharts
pro, it was much easier than digging for and folding a paper sectional
from the seatback pocket, it also has airport facility directory
information.

There's an interesting soaring program on the German app store if you
can read the language.

There are a lot of cool non soaring apps for the ipad. The Android
tablet doesn't have a lot of software available to use when not
soaring.

The Ipad has replaced my laptop at work.

Jim

Jim

Thanks for the WxRadar pointer I just installed it on my iPhone. Nice,
but a small niggle is it does not seem to do composite high resolution
radar between two adjacent radar sites. Its composite maps only seem
low-resolution or am I missing something?

Was the German iOS soaring software the iGlide software from Butterfly
Avionics? e.g. see the English translation for the high-end iGlide Pro
version here http://goo.gl/UEs90 iGlide is really intended for the
iPhone/iPod Touch - but those screens are pretty small and not as
daylight readable as others (but probalby better than my current iPAQ
4700). The current version will just do the 2x scaling on the iPad. At
least looking at the iTunes store and the Butterfly Website http://goo.gl/ot32h
it looks like there are some nice UI ideas here. I believe Butterfly
intend to bring this software to the USA, and I've talked to some of
their staff to make sure their USA version should work like people
will probably expect - e.g. hopefully they will make it easy to load
the airspace data from http://www.justsoar.com and Lynn Alley's data
on the Soaring Turnpoint Exchange.

There is some silly handwriting software in the USA app store called
iGlide, wonder how Butterfly will deal with that. I wonder if any new
apps will be announced at Aero.

Darryl