midlifeflyer

This is very old information. Hopefully you’ll hear something more current. We flew into BOI 14 years ago. Overnight enroute to Coeur D’Alene from Denver. Two FBOs one closest to each of the parallel runways. Nothing prearranged: BOI was a planned enroute alternate. We landed on 28L, so we went to Western. Walked in wearing my AOPA cap. First words out of their mouth, “we give a discount to AOPA members.” They arranged a hotel over night, recommended restaurants for dinner and breakfast the next day, brought us there, and picked us up. One of the best FBO experiences we’ve ever had.

Yes, mistakes are what kill people. Instead of twisting your heading bug to 100 you accidentally twist it to 010 and look at your iPad and it potentially becomes a bad day. Actually, forget that newfangled heading bug. You heard the instruction wrong and hand flew it to the wrong heading. There are hundreds of things we can do with our equipment (and I don't only mean automation) to give us a bad day (or worst, our last day). "Airmanship" includes proper equipment use.

If you’ve set it up that way, it’s the way to go. An EFB is more than any one feature and I’m not sure any one feature is a good reason to make a change. I run both for instructional purposes (and because I’m a geek when it comes to avionics and EFBs) and often come across things i think one or the other does better. But the ultimate choice of one or the other is about the whole package. Since you have the choice, see which one you actually go to more often.

Having used both, these are two different products, not attempted clones of each other. At their most basic level, Dynamic Procedures is a Map informational overlay; SmartCharts are terminal areas charts (IAPs, SIDs and STARs). Intended use is different. SmartCharts are a potential chart replacement. As Garmin says in some of it's videos on the product, SmartCharts satisfy FAA requirements (at least in the Part 91 world). Once the offering is complete, you could conceivably fly with only SmartCharts without either FAA or Jepp terminal charts. Foreflight's Dynamic Procedures, OTOH, are not. They may start from the same data source, but as FF specifically says on the Sidebar, you are expected to This is not a huge surprise. FF is part of the same company as Jepp. If FF said you could replace Jepp Charts with these, that would be the surprise. One of the more practical differences is the depiction of weather and traffic. As a Map overlay, with Dynamic Procedures, it's there. SmartCharts, as somehting separate from the Map, do not (currently?) display those. But, unlike Foreflight, Pilot does split screen and, from playing with that, the SmarCharts are so decluttered that I think they work well side by side with the Map (so long as you leave the vertical profile off). These are two different approaches, but with every turned on that can be at any one time, you can get an small idea of the basic differences between the two. It will definitely be interesting to see a full side-by-side comparison, but I'm not sure if Aviation Consumer is the place. I did a few comparison articles in IFR and it was always difficult even when trying to show only a single feature (I did one on custom holds). A bunch of words don't do it justice compared to a video, and in this case, you'd probably need 30 pages to cover something that could be shown better in a video flying even one procedure with both

That link works fine for me.

Sidebar, chart, and vertical profile are toggles.

BTW, the profile has two views. Just above the view you see the icon symbol for the route, which is selected. Next to it is an APR icon, which I forgot to enable. This is on the ground now , but you can see that when APR is enabled, it drills down to a display that is a little more helpful for the approach.

No, it's not just for Jepp charts. I thought so at first too, but saw some FAQs to indicate that the information is from the Jepp NavData, which FF uses, but it works fine with the FAA charts or with no charts displayed at all. Here's what it looks like with everything on during an approach. (See what I mean by "cluttered"?) The chart is the FAA chart. You'll see the aircraft in the profile view and that both the profile and the sidebar magenta follow the approach.

It doesn't show in the screen shot above, but that profile view at the top is geotagged.

As it turns out, not quite the same, but it's being discussed in this thread:

There are some general rules of thumb and some POH even give numbers. But the problem is that unimproved runways are so variable with respect to condition that anything is really just a guess. Dry well mowed grass will have a similar landing distance to pavement, but the numbers I’ve seen for takeoff are to increase the numbers 10-15%. But unless I know the field, I’m thinking in terms of double the takeoff roll.

They have also begun to add in the missing SmartCharts. i like the way they handle the timing table. It’s there but it’s a touch-activated dropdown on the assumption it will be rarely needed.

In the FWIW Department… I’ve looked at it too. Glad you took that screenshot. I don’t have the same initial reaction to this that I had to the SmartCharts. It adds a lot of clutter. I do like the idea of the pictorial view of breaking out, but if the sidebar is intended ti be an enhanced briefing strip to be slid away when complete, why the disclaimer? If I have to “verify with chart” anyway, I’m not sure what value it adds.

Definitely. I was lucky enough to see former FAA safety program manager and accident investigator Mick Wilson’s “How to Crash an Airplane and Survive “ program live.

No one should. As I said, damage or lack of damage should not be a consideration. Walking away from the crash is. Sadly, there have apparently been fatalities from trying to save the airplane. You may not like the slogan, but that’s where it comes from.