The AFE plates are fine. It is likely to only be AIP plates (over which we have no control) that are occasionally published in a portrait orientation even when their content is landscape. We have made some progress with the authorities in getting this changed in the future.

The quick fix for this is to lock the rotation of the iPad and turn the device as a whole.

-- Chris.

You can do that anyway - just download them into an app such as Goodreader, and you can organise them in folders and even annotate them as you wish.

Has anyone tried the AFE plates? Do they appear in the correct orientation on the iPad?

Another solution would be to allow upload of pdf documents manually. This would solve two things:

1) I could obtain the public chart myself, rotate it in Acrobat and Upload the rotated chart to SD.

2) It would allow me to upload custom charts or charts that aren't available yet such as VFR approach charts.

What do others think?

-- Chris.

I agree that is a quick fix, and works easily 'on the ground', but with my iPad joke mounted in the air, not sure it's a practical solution when airborne!

I'm in debate with AIS, and certainly the more of us that ask them to produce a plate version suitable for electronic display, the more chance we have of solving this minor issue. ais.supervisor@nats.co.uk

My own quick fix is to use the the iPads rotation "lock" button when displaying the chart and rotating the iPad to suit!

That would be a quick fix. We cannot add such a button to the default PDF viewer in the iPad, which we are currently using.

Please contact ais.supervisor@nats.co.uk if you find the delivery of a landscape plate inside a portrait PDF to be a problem.

Tim, I note you say that there is no quick fix, but could your software experts add a button to 'rotate through 90' in the header for the plate pages, as found in some picture programmes?