Originally Posted by RockyBoy

Update after first trip with iPad.

GPS works great on the ground, not good when airborne in the 320. It is probably on and accurate about 1/3 of the time. It appears as if the side window heat may be the issue. If you move it to the aft window it seems to work more often. Very nice on the ground. We do not have the Airport Moving Map option which would be even better.

Nothing ever locks up and the thing is fast. You can use Touch ID to open up from when it is locked and you can get into FD Pro in seconds basically.

Battery is way better. I worked a 2-leg 8:30 block day and had 35% left. I never attempted to save any battery. Did not have the FWV so it may need a charge if you had that running.

There are some issues with the HTML flight plan. If you open it from an e-mail link with Safari then the D-0 countdown timer won't work. To get that to work from an e-mail you have to open it from content locker. When you do that the hyperlinks don't work. It works great from the pop-up in safari, but if that gets closed then you have to open it from the e-mail. Not a big deal because once airborne you don't need the D-0 timer so you can open it from Safari and it works.

FD Pro is great, but the iPad version does not have the ability to select runways and departures or arrivals so you have to type those in.
FD Pro app is fast. You can go from one chart to another as fast as you can touch the screen....no drawing icon and it doesn't lock up a dozen times each leg. Never locked up or slowed down on me once. Nice..

At&t data is super fast. I found myself turning off wifi and using that because the wifi is almost always unreliable and slow when at a jetway. Nice not having to use my phone as a hotspot anymore. They are going to use up a ton of data though unless they get good wifi at the gates for us.

Massive improvement over the POS Surface. I think everyone knew it would be though so that's not big news.

Originally Posted by Han Solo

When the time comes it will be tempting to buy my Surface, but only to break the effing thing in half over my knee as repayment for years of frustration.

Originally Posted by Mesabah

If you want the GPS to work the entire flight, it's a lot more stable if you leave the app open, screen on, and run the iPad on a battery backup. It appears that once you close the app or lock the iPad, the GPS loses position, and can't reacquire inflight. It happens in the back of the plane too, but the window heat mesh does hinder satellite signals.

Originally Posted by Navmode

This was never suggested by anything I’ve read.

Originally Posted by Bluto

Which part? You never heard we would get external GPS receivers? or...?