Garmin or Foreflight??

[David Lloyd]

From what I have seen, Garmin Pilot and Fore Flight are similar but different. Mine is more capable or mine is easier to use.  No, both will do much more than you will most likely ever use.  Either is easy to use if you have learned how, not just tried for a short time.  Both will talk to a Garmin navigator.  The only significant difference is the GP ability to upload a new database to the 275s and 300 series navigators.

[Andy95W]

2 hours ago, bluehighwayflyer said:

just so darn bougie 

And here I thought I was too old to use the word “bougie”.  Nice!

[toto]

7 hours ago, bluehighwayflyer said:

I’ve tried them all starting with Anywhere Map running on a Dell Axim PDA.

This could be a fun trip down memory lane

My first EFB foray was with a Sony E-Reader that I bought specifically to use a product called Reader Plates. It was freaking amazing. After years of paying exorbitant prices for Jepp plates that took untold hours of filing and updating giant leather binders, having all of my approach plates on one little E-Ink device was unbelievable. I really preferred the Jepp plates to NOS until I could get them on my E-Reader. But once I had them there, I dropped Jepp like a bad habit. 
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20080906234849/http://www.readerplates.com/plates/description

[N231BN]

This could be a fun trip down memory lane
My first EFB foray was with a Sony E-Reader that I bought specifically to use a product called Reader Plates. It was freaking amazing. After years of paying exorbitant prices for Jepp plates that took untold hours of filing and updating giant leather binders, having all of my approach plates on one little E-Ink device was unbelievable. I really preferred the Jepp plates to NOS until I could get them on my E-Reader. But once I had them there, I dropped Jepp like a bad habit. 
 
https://web.archive.org/web/20080906234849/http://www.readerplates.com/plates/description

I had one of those too, it was good product at the time.

I started with GP on an Android tablet when it was a spinoff of the My-cast weather app. I now use an iPad as they seem to prioritize development of that platform over android but I have always preferred it to fore-flight.

[toto]

3 hours ago, N231BN said:

I had one of those too, it was good product at the time.

I started with GP on an Android tablet when it was a spinoff of the My-cast weather app. I now use an iPad as they seem to prioritize development of that platform over android but I have always preferred it to fore-flight.

Same. I used GP on a series of Android tablets but grew increasingly frustrated when I would see new feature announcements that were iPad-only. To their credit, when I contacted Garmin about the new features, they were always very responsive and very candid. But the feature roadmap for Android was clearly a low priority, with some features arriving 1-2 years late (if at all). I ended up just buying an iPad and stopped complaining about it