Thanks to all who replied. George, in particular, I am ASTONISHED the WiFi only models fail to have a GPS. That's quite an omission & a deal killer. Enroute chart use on a EFB without it is a hassle to the point of being useless and I'm just not going to carry another device and have more wires in the cockpit or dead batteries to deal with.

... you just saved me $600. Thanks. Time to work on my hacked up Linux/Andriod tablet some more.

 

They look good.

If we get a FSU vs. Auburn (80knots vs. FTB ) national championship, APC will be the place to watch.

 

I'll point out that I was never able to get any GPS signal when inside the 757/767 cockpit, heated windows and all that I think. That's both with the iPad with cellular (this GPS) and also standalone GPS unit.

Maybe an Aviation unit might have better luck.

 

I'll be ugly all month.

 

I'm currently one of the test guys with both devices. I've been running Jeppesen FD Pro on both the iPad and Surface. The Surface software is only protype (not even Beta). I'm using an iPad with 32GB. I don't have any movies or games on it. I have 7.3GB available. I'd consider a 64GB if Delta decides not to use the Surface. FD Pro is the biggest hog with 1.9 GB of any of my apps.

 

Thank you for the report. Will the Company give FDPro to Content Locker users? (if so, I may buy one of George's GPS hockey pucks after all)

That FD Pro is actually a lot lighter than AviationMaps for Android. It's at a little under 6GB, but for my GA flying I keep Terminal and Sectional VFR equivalents and every airport's charts for CONUS and the Western Atlantic. The GPS does not work in jets with heated thick acrylic, but it works great in a Bonanza ... for enroute stuff it's terrific to have your aircraft on the chart ... further it makes a good hozgoezit for the wife + kids. The iPad might be World's better, but the GPS function is a deal killer for the little airplane flying.

So do you think Delta might actually give up on the Win RT project? It seems with Microsoft's (ref Julie Larson-Green) announcement that the third OS does not have a future that we might as well give up development of a product that even MS isn't going to support. After all, the big deal about RT was the locked down delivery of software ... if Microsoft unplugs that then RT is nothing more than Palm OS, or Windows Mobile, or any of the other 26 tombstones in the platform graveyard.

Dead OS are expensive. The last article I read for Symbian was $750 million for development and $100 million a year for ongoing software revisions, updates, etc ... . A dead OS with specialized applications like Delta needs may be a really expensive dead end that we're dragging our vendors down until they simply refuse to go.

 

16G phone fills up quick. Constantly have to dump photos to the desktop to make room. Average number of apps FWIW. The OS is massive. 32G is an absolute minimum IMHO and 64 is likely the realistic end requirement for all we are hoping it will end up doing. Going cheap on the front end will be very expensive later.

And MS tablets are all POS orphanware the moment they are released. What is MS going to do, take their business to iPad using Alaska? Right.

 

Hey shamecocks, my wife is awake and watching the game. Sooooo, Clemson can't lose. Take it to the bank. She is nervous though.

 

What a freakin GAME!

Carl

 

well holy ****.