USMCFLYER thanks, your comments makes absolute sense and I agree with you 100%. Heads down time can range from simply being inattentive, to burying your head in an electronic gizmo in the cockpit. The ipad has so many applications from free books to a plethora of help in situational awareness in the cockpit. To carry an AFD, charts, and plates and to use them in the cockpit can be quite a process and the ipad solves this problem. I might as well go ahead and make the purchase! My only fear is that the week after I get one they will come out with the ipad 3!