Cool, then Wifi iPad it is, thanks !
But I can tell you from personal experience installing several Echos that the iPad can't use that gps data to know where it is. If you buy a wifi only iPad you will need an external gps chip for that.
Cool, then Wifi iPad it is, thanks !
Personally I would spend the extra $100 and then be able to use the iPad in the car when on vacation.
Specifically the issue I've seen running ForeFlight on a wifi-only iPad is that traffic is depicted in the correct location on the map background, but ForeFlight (the iPad) doesn't know where your own aircraft is. It was an easy thing to check. My iPad has an internal GPS (wifi + cellular version). The iPads in question did not. I'd go flying with the customers in their airplanes with both iPads along. Mine knew where we were, the others didn't. Plugging a Bad Elf external GPS or similar into the wifi-only iPad would solve the problem.
I have a WiFi only iPad and use ForeFlight and my echo/safefly gps with no problem, the position data works fine. But remember that the echouat itself has no gps. What position source was the echo using when you had issues?
Chris
The Echo with the SkyFYX GPS is exactly the combo I plan to use so then it seems like wifi only iPad is back on the table?
I have a WiFi only iPad and use ForeFlight and my echo/safefly gps with no problem, the position data works fine. But remember that the echouat itself has no gps. What position source was the echo using when you had issues?
Chris
It only works if your app can eat ADSB data such as an EFB like Foreflight or iFly. It doesn?t go directly into the iPad. It works for me with iFly. YMMV
This is the answer, but I'll explain more to clarify:
The application that runs on your ipad is an application that can get it's GPS source from anything it's been designed to. So in the case of ifly or flyq or whatever, they know how to get the GPS position from the ADS-b receiver using the same connection it gets traffic from (wifi).
The ipad itself, and it's built in applications use the internal gps if there is one, or a bluetooth GPS (like a bad elf).
If the ipad is talking to an external GPS over bluetooth, it can export that data to any application.
So if you are fine with only having the GPS data when you are using a compatible app and ads-b receiver at the same time, then you can get away with a wifi only ipad. If you want GPS for anything else, you need to get the internal gps model or use a iOS supported external GPS.
If I had an airplane dedicated ipad, and the app I was using supported getting gps from the asb-r receiver I was using, I'd probably just get the wifi model.
Right now I'm using flyq and a stratux. When in flight the flyq app ignores the internal GPS and uses the one on the stratux because it's much more sensitive than the internal one on the ipad.
schu
Shane, any updates on the disappearing targets. It happens to me on occasion.
Thanks,
Bob
As info the EchoUAT transceiver software, 2.4.43 update is now on the UAvionics website. If you haven?t already asked for it (like me). Bob
Did they add any new features with it or just fixing bad software?
Garmin has chosen not to work with the Uavionix products.