X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:27:52 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from s6.cableone.net ([24.116.0.232] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.10) with ESMTP id 4590129 for lml@lancaironline.net; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:06:35 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=24.116.0.232; envelope-from=bbreen@cableone.net Received: from [192.168.1.104] (unverified [174.126.5.173]) by s6.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service s6) with ESMTP id 37787728-1872270 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:05:58 -0700 X-Original-Return-Path: X-Original-Message-Id: <8FDC7C07-5235-4103-A91C-4B92E41B6ED8@cableone.net> From: Berni X-Original-To: Lancair Mailing List In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-2-826465602 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (iPad Mail 7B500) Subject: Re: [LML] Re: iPad in the cockpit X-Original-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:26:34 -0600 References: X-Mailer: iPad Mail (7B500) X-Vpipe: Scanner said ok (av_avast) X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 2, First 85, in=27, out=0, spam=0 ip=174.126.5.173 X-Originating-IP: 174.126.5.173 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net --Apple-Mail-2-826465602 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If you are using a 3G iPad with airplane mode turned off the Unit does = maintain your position even if you turn it off, move to another location = and turn it back on. I cannot definitively tell you if it can see = through the carbon fiber fuselage but I am quite sure it would. Great unit and really sweet with Foreflight! Sent from my iPad Berni Breen Bbreen@cableone.net On Nov 22, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Isaac Heizer wrote: > I've been using a wi-fi only ipad plus external bluetooth gps receiver = plus foreflight since July and it works great. >=20 > I had to jailbreak my ipad to get the GPS to work. I used Cydia to = jailbreak the ipad, loaded BTStack to enable ipad bluetooth GPS devices, = and purchased a MobileMate 886 Mini Bluetooth GPS receiver ($56 on = amazon) that i set on the glareshield at the start of a flight. >=20 > I'm able to turn the ipad on and off in flight, and Foreflight = immediately resumes as though i never turned the ipad off because the = bluetooth GPS receiver stays locked on the satellites while I have the = ipad turned off. Does it work the same way on an ipad with its internal = GPS? In other words, can you turn the ipad off in flight, leave it off = for 30 minutes, turn the ipad on and have an immediate GPS location? >=20 > Does the internal ipad GPS work just fine through a carbon fiber = fuselage top, or do you have to position the ipad in some special way? --Apple-Mail-2-826465602 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
If you are using a 3G iPad with = airplane mode turned off the Unit does maintain your position even if = you turn it off, move to another location and turn it back on.  I = cannot definitively tell you if it can see through the carbon fiber = fuselage but I am quite sure it would.

Great = unit and really sweet with Foreflight!

Sent from my = iPad
Berni Breen

On Nov 22, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Isaac Heizer <ijheizer@comcast.net> = wrote:

I've been = using a wi-fi only ipad plus external bluetooth gps receiver plus = foreflight since July and it works great.

I had to jailbreak my = ipad to get the GPS to work.  I used Cydia to jailbreak the ipad, = loaded BTStack to enable ipad bluetooth GPS devices, and purchased a = MobileMate 886 Mini Bluetooth GPS receiver ($56 on amazon) that i set on = the glareshield at the start of a flight.

I'm able to turn the = ipad on and off in flight, and Foreflight immediately resumes as though = i never turned the ipad off because the bluetooth GPS receiver stays = locked on the satellites while I have the ipad turned off.  Does it = work the same way on an ipad with its internal GPS?  In other = words, can you turn the ipad off in flight, leave it off for 30 minutes, = turn the ipad on and have an immediate GPS location?

Does the = internal ipad GPS work just fine through a carbon fiber fuselage top, or = do you have to position the ipad in some special = way?
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