“Instead of instructors lugging around heavy cases filled with maps, charts, manuals, weather reports, flight plans and checklists every time they go into the simulator — they use iPads instead,” Martinelli reports.
MacDailyNews Note: Half an inch thin and only 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg) for the Wi-Fi model or 1.6 pounds (0.73 kg) Wi-Fi + 3G model.
Martinelli continues, “‘It’s absolutely fabulous, it’s no exaggeration to say that the iPad is going to revolutionise our business, whilst being used in an unenvisaged role,’ James Stevenson of Virtual Aviation said.”
Full article, with many photos, here.
great… now pilots can browse their ipads while flying and overshoot the Minneapolis airport because they are distracted….
Really, MDN…this has very, very little to do with Apple. Just change the colors and logo to the Royal Air Force and start advertising for them already. 17 and a half more articles or so and the app and bookmarks are gone.
Come on MDN. Most of us are not interested in your reactionary views on human flight. Your promotion of an idiot app like this has ZERO to do with Apple or its products. If you want to risk driving away half or more of your audience keep this up. We actually read Erica Jong’s book!
Virtual Aviation? Call it what it isn’t.
Watch this post get censored.
What about Rachel, and Keith, and Alan Colmes, and all of the others that nobody watches???!!!
Racists! Agnostics! Jesus freaks! Fiscal conservatives! Limited government proponents! Hitler-lovers! Circus clown fsckers! Effeminate Upper West Side Elites! Unafraid to fly! Cheney! Rummy!! *gasp* Buuussshhh!!! (43, not 41. I kind of like 41.)
Blaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Forget it, you commie, fascist, socialist, neocon, gun-nut, bible-thumping, oil-drilling, pro-life, lawn-fertilizing, anti-death penalty, pro gay marriage scumbags – I’m not waiting! MDN app deleted. MDN bookmarks deleted. MDN autofill deleted. All memories of MDN forgotten. MDN is dead to me. MDN sleeps with the fishes.
Superior Being, out!
” …. “‘It’s absolutely fabulous, it’s no exaggeration to say that the iPad is going to revolutionise our business, whilst being used in an unenvisaged role’ …. “
Going to be reading this type of sentence over and over!
Superior Being:
you’re actually funny!
@”Superior” Being,
“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”
–from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long by Robert Heinlein
hilarious in fact
Do you think those Vulcans will notice us if NASA starts using iPads in space?
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@superior being
Don’t let the door hit you on the a$$ on your way out
-iPhoneEnvy
BTW…. First Post Baby!!
The article quoted seemed rather thin, but I must be missing a vast amount of subtext that is patently obvious to ‘Superior Being’. Can anyone explain what gives?
If/when Jeppesen is on board with this, the iPad becomes a game changer.
@MacAngus
I’m with you. I didn’t grasp the genesis of that rant, nor do I know if it was meant seriously or in jest. Superior Being… some of us need an explanation.
My guess is ….not a superior being.
By the way my iPad has 80 books and growing. Still only half an inch thin.
Explanation:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/25209/
I have no idea what Superior Being is talking about…
Anyway, back on topic; this has given me a fantastic idea for an Enterprise App.
I have one question: if you have an Enterprise Developer Licence and create and Enterprise App, can you lock down the iPad so you can only use the App I’m thinking about developing and disable things like the iPod, Mail etc.?
Great report. I have used this since day one. Only trolls hate this. 1.5 pounds vs. 30 for paper products. And this thing is fast. Not like a laptop. Thanks MDN.
Speaking of pilots with iPads, I can just hear the VFR Navigation App saying bank 30° left at that next Cumulus Cloud and continue on a heading of 137° for 230 miles.
Superior Being is bitchin’ about assholes that complain about every posted topic that isn’t precisely about their own personal interests.
@Superior Being
LOL — I skipped that Glenn Beck article ’cause I knew it would turn into a flame war. I guess that’s why I didn’t “get” your satirical rant.
I am a teacher and would like to see the ipad used as a teaching tool in English, math and so on. rosetastone language apps. translator apps for adult education Chinese to English and so on. dictionary apps as well as encyclopedia apps. I see this as replacing text books for everything that is taught in schools today. just download text books. add a printer app and you can do your home work and print it out. this is all very exciting. I will be transferring to China to begin teaching in Beihai. and this ipad can take the place of the 500 plus books I have to have sent ahead .
Just two days ago, Somebody recommed iFunia iPad Column to me . “There are many resurce. —–Also information about Apple iPad tablet, its video & audio formats, review, tips and tutorials.”
There are some apps that is close to what I just want.
Source: http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/index.html
@Superior Being-
I think that you need to get your meds regulated.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
It is not legal in most schools as far as I can tell
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