cellis132

I recently bought an Asus TF 700 to use while flying. I got the Garmin pilot app and I love both so far. I only have a couple things that bother me so far. One, is the internal GPS seems to go in and out quite a bit in the plane, depending where I am holding it and what battery setting it is on. Also it seems to drain the battery quite fast and I feel like the ipads do not drain as fast (Ive never actually used one). Does anyone else who has the transformer experience these problems and is there anything I can do to fix it?

Falconone

Don't use the garmin app on mine, use aviation maps instead, but I can get a constant lock when in a 172 but can't get a lock in the b200. Been looking around for a bluetooth gps. Do you put it in airplane mode while flying or do you leave everything turned on? If it's constantly looking for wifi it will drain the battery fast.

If I have mine in airplane mode the gps portion will still work and can get through a day easily. Also have the keyboard dock on mine which can get me through two days.

AZFlyer

Agreed with the above. Make sure you're on airplane mode with the GPS on. That will save some juice.

I use Anywhere Map Freedom (which I like a lot), and my tablet receives the GPS signal pretty well in a C402 cockpit but not very well in a single engine Cessna cockpit.

I also have the app installed on my smart phone and use an inexpensive suction based phone mount from Walmart to attach my phone to the side of the windscreen. Works great. I love it.

If you have a source of electrical power in the cockpit you can usually get enough current to at least prevent the battery in your device from draining. I do this with my phone while running Anywhere Map and it works like a charm.

You can also research to see if there are any external GPS receivers that are compatible with your device. Usually easy to find on Amazon/Ebay etc, and arent usually very expensive.

Mode

Here's a good bluetooth GPS. I use it with an ipad and foreflight and it works great.

Amazon.com: Dual Electronics XGPS150 Universal Bluetooth GPS Receiver for iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone and Other Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops: GPS & Navigation

deadpixel

Curious does anyone here use the nexus 10? I know the nexus 7 has gotten popular for it's size but I think I'd want the nexus 10 and curious if anyone uses it garmin pilot or anything similar!

cellis132

I usually turn the wireless off when I fly, but havent tried airplane mode yet. Ill try that next time. Im flying 152/172s at the moment. Ive asked other instructors who have ipads and they say they dont have either of these issues. Ill keep messing around with it I guess. Thanks for the advice