About a year and a half ago when I got my Citabria I had to plan the flight home. I had been looking all over the country for an airplane and figured the flight home would be a good way to kick off the adventure of getting back into GA ownership. Having been out of it for a few years I started with an order of charts and AFD's from Sporty's! To the tune of about $60! Little did I know how far along smart phones and tablets had come, I was completely ignorant.
It occurred to me there was probably an app for flight planning so a quick search and I was introduced to AVARE, a GPS based moving map and flight planning app. I had heard about Foreflight and was a little familiar with it but I couldn't see myself needing that much sophistication and couldn't see where I'd fit a small tablet in a Citabria. AVARE on my Android based cell phone worked perfectly and has been a reliable nav aid ever since that first flight home from Boston.
They have since added ADS-B compatibility and the ability to link to an external GPS receiver. You can download/update the charts you'll need for free and the app scrolls through the route across multiple charts seamlessly. In the smaller confines of a two place tandem taildragger, this is a lot of capability that displays very well on a small screen.
Intro Part 1
Intro Part 2
It occurred to me there was probably an app for flight planning so a quick search and I was introduced to AVARE, a GPS based moving map and flight planning app. I had heard about Foreflight and was a little familiar with it but I couldn't see myself needing that much sophistication and couldn't see where I'd fit a small tablet in a Citabria. AVARE on my Android based cell phone worked perfectly and has been a reliable nav aid ever since that first flight home from Boston.
They have since added ADS-B compatibility and the ability to link to an external GPS receiver. You can download/update the charts you'll need for free and the app scrolls through the route across multiple charts seamlessly. In the smaller confines of a two place tandem taildragger, this is a lot of capability that displays very well on a small screen.
Intro Part 1
Intro Part 2