I just bought a new iPad Air (iPad 5). I got Wi-fi + G. I disabled G because I don’t use/need it. The GPS still works. If I need to use the cell network to connect I use the mobile access point on my phone. Avoids paying for cell service on the iPad.

If you don’t have the GPS, it calculates an approximate position using wi-fi sources. This is not the same nor near as accurate as GPS.

Jay Phillips

John,

I don't know what else to tell you, but my iPad2 tracks!!!  It is wifi only with 64GB of memory.

I use ForeFlight and have flown all over the US and it tracks.  It tracks while taxiing on airfield diagrams, it tracks on approach plates, it tracks enroute.

And it is not connected via Bluetooth or to any other external device like Bad Elf.

I use it while traveling in the car with a number of APS to get directions and find restaurants, hotels etc.  It tracks.

 

Perhaps I have the only iPad2 (wifi only) that works, perhaps whoever built my iPad inadvertently made a mistake.  I don't know.

What I do know is that it tracks.

 

I might add that this same discussion took place a few years ago on LML,  and the same kind of disparity took place.

 

PC

 

 

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Jay Phillips
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 7:15 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: iPad Mini

 

The Wi-fi only ipad does not have an internal GPS, so you would need an external GPS to have georeferencing. The Wi-fi+G model does have an internal gps.

 

Jay Phillips

 

From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of John Barrett
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:10 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] Re: iPad Mini

 

That's good news to me, PC.  Just to be sure, are you saying you are georeferenced without a blue tooth or other GPS hooked up to the iPad?

 

Thanks,

John

 

Sent from my iPad

 

On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:44 PM, "PC" <pcdavis@shasta.com> wrote:

Greetings,

I have used an iPad2 (64G, WiFi only) since it came out very successfully with ForeFlight.  It georeferences fully on charts and plates.

The top of my canopy of my 360 is lined with dark window film that makes the iPad screen easily seen.

 

PC Davis

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