Re: [Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding

2013-03-12 Thread Ben Jones
ode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2013 10:12 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding At 11:43 AM 12/03/2013, you wrote: >On 12/03/2013, at 11:57 AM, Dave Long &

Re: [Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding

2013-03-11 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:43 AM 12/03/2013, you wrote: On 12/03/2013, at 11:57 AM, Dave Long & Cath Lincoln wrote: > Hi Emilis, > > I suspect that the GPS unit in the iPad is not as sophisticated as those we > are used to using in aviation. GPS is GPS. There hasn't been a huge amount of "sophistication" for mo

Re: [Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding

2013-03-11 Thread Mark Newton
On 12/03/2013, at 11:57 AM, Dave Long & Cath Lincoln wrote: > Hi Emilis, > > I suspect that the GPS unit in the iPad is not as sophisticated as those we > are used to using in aviation. GPS is GPS. There hasn't been a huge amount of "sophistication" for most of the last 20 years. You're pr

Re: [Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding

2013-03-11 Thread Dave Long & Cath Lincoln
relgauskas Sent: Tuesday, 12 March 2013 12:02 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: [Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding On 11/03/2013, at 7:43 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > Oz Runways chose the ipad platform for their GA planning and flight > software and I can see

Re: [Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding

2013-03-11 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:01 AM 12/03/2013, you wrote: On 11/03/2013, at 7:43 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: Oz Runways chose the ipad platform for their GA planning and flight software and I can see why. There was a good number of ipads in use and by choosing to run their software on that they could support only one p

[Aus-soaring] Apple - gliding

2013-03-11 Thread emilis prelgauskas
On 11/03/2013, at 7:43 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: Oz Runways chose the ipad platform for their GA planning and flight software and I can see why. There was a good number of ipads in use and by choosing to run their software on that they could support only one platform that was tightly specified.