201Mooniac

I wonder who that could have been...

Could be though it isn't obvious to me why that might be the case. There may be some environmental issue or something that I just don't experience, we don't get very cold here and I rarely have it on the battery minder when it gets too hot either. I'll have to look up their documentation to see if they explain why.

No problem using Jepp charts with GP either, I've been doing it for many years. My Jepp subscription includes GP with no per device charge.

Understood, but it still passes the load test so I don't think that is really the issue

When I did my instrument check ride more than 30 years ago my examiner had me continue the ILS to landing under the hood just using the pressure altitude to decide when to flare. It was certainly an experience and not my best landing, even back then. He wanted me to know it would be survivable I guess. I have recently done an LPV approach under the hood with a safety pilot and used the LHS to decide when to flare. Worked out pretty well. Certainly hope to never need it but much more than just survivable.

I wasn't aware of that. I've had my Concorde on a battery minder for the last 7.5 years and it still passes the load test, it must not be too bad for the battery.

Overall I think this is great. One feature I'd like to see that I might have missed in my quick check of the app, is there a way to auto-route via airways and constrain the max MEA? I miss that functionality because I often fly to small airports where there are no ATC routes that show up and given I'm NA, I worry about MEAs in the mountains out west here..

Same in my M20J. At about 1000' I reduce from 2700 to 2600, definitely quieter with no noticable loss of climb rate. Also drops fuel flow by about 0.7 gph.

Jeff, either Rutgers was too cheap or its just because you are younger than me but no card sorter. Actually I was thinking of the mainframe model, I'm thinking it was a 3031 but I'm not sure. I don't really remember the card punch machines at all, probably blocked that unpleasant memory.

Yep, when I did my Intro to Fortran course it was punch cards on an old IBM (can't remember the model number). We did one fairly extensive program of several hundred cards and the one lesson I learned, other than editting the cards, was to draw a diagonal line across the top of the stack so when you drop them it is easier to get them back in order. Ask how I know...

Agree, I just thought it was funny that you could put such a ridiculous stack of code together to get something 45 years old to run.

Okay, got me there, no EMP hardened platform that I'm aware of for running JS.

Sure, you just need an ESP32 with Espurino (https://www.espboards.dev/blog/programming-esp32-with-javascript/)

Don't worry, you can get a 6502 emulator written in javascript and run it in your browser

I've been using Garmin Pilot for a long time now and am very happy with it but I've stil been using Jepp charts as I really prefer the visuals on the approach charts. If this means the prices go up even more, it likely will no longer be worth the added cost and I'll get used to using flightcharts which will allow me to save some money with a Garmin data plan.