My first post also ... I have an iPad 2, WiFi only, recently upgraded to ios 6, and I just purchased a GNS 1000 external GPS today. The indicators on the GNS showed a good Bluetooth connection and GPS position received OK. iPad settings showed that the GNS 1000 was connected. However, I found that SkyDemon in flight mode was not recieving a signal, i.e. the aircraft symbol was Red. (To be precise, the symbol was Yellow for 5-10 seconds when entering flight mode, then went red permanently after that.)

I powered the iPad off and on and saw the same results. I spoke to Skydemon (who were REALLY helpful by the way) and they suggested a set of things I should try. Before starting on the suggestions, and for no particular reason, I turned the iPad off and on again and everything then worked - huh?

I can honestly say that nothing changed between the 2 power off/on cycles, so I can't see any logical reason it should have worked after the 2nd cycle, but that's what happened. I hope this helps someone out there.

ps I am evaluating the software, but now ready to buy. Great product and a great service guys, please keep doing what you're doing!

I was about to follow up the suggestions I found on the web when I saw that there is a software update available for the Ipad (6.0.1). After upgrading the software and do some test, the issue seems to be solved..pffff

Please can someone help me?

I have a new iPad2 (iPad3?) with wi-fi and 3G. I have SD installed on it and it works brilliantly.

Today, I bought an external "Garmin GLO For Aviation" GPS receiver as I thought it might be even more accurate and reliable than the internal iPad GPS receiver as it uses GLONASS & GPS satellites.

It says in the manual that is has been made for the iPad / iPhone, etc, and I had no problems pairing it to my iPad with bluetooth. I get a solid blue LED telling me that it is talking to the iPad and a solid green LED telling me it has found out where it is!

So then I decided to disable the internal iPad GPS in order to use the external Garmin GLO GPS. Therefore, I went into Settings - Privacy and disabled Location Services. The problem now is that when I try to open Google Earth for instance, it just doesn't find my location and asks for Location Services to be turned on. When I open up Maps, it wants me to turn on Location Services to allow Maps to determine my location.

When I open up SD, it asks me to go back into Settings to turn on Location Services. When I don't do this and simply open up SD in Flight Mode, I see a red aeroplane icon instead of my usual yellow one meaning that my GPS hasn't found my location.

The iPad and GPS receiver are still bluetoothed to each other and I have tried all the solutions listed in this thread such as switching the iPad off & on, doing a hard reset and resetting everything back to factory defaults. Now, I am at my wits end!

Are there any 'boffins' out there who can see what I'm doing wrong ....or not doing?

Thanks.

Paul

Yep - quite simply, don't disable Location Services!

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

Purely in the interests of furthering aviation research - and not because I, in any way, doubted your profound words of wisdom(!) - I switched my iPad on, loaded SD and then selected "Go Flying". Sure enough, the 'plane icon was yellow as it started to use its internal GPS. Then I took my iPad down to the garage under the house where I was sure it could not "see" any satellites, closed the garage door and the little 'plane icon turned red signifying a loss of GPS reception.

Then I switched on the bluetooth GARMIN GLO and noted that, although it paired instantly with the iPad, there was a flashing green LED signifying that it, too, had no GPS reception and the iPad SD 'plane icon still stayed red.

Then, I got the household's C-in-C to take the GARMIN GLO and stand outside the garage door. Lo and behold, the GARMIN GLO's green LED became solid - signifying that it had locked-on to some satellites - and the SD's 'plane icon turned yellow again!

Not only that, but when I instructed her to 'make like an aeroplane' outside the garage (without sound effects, of course!), the SD 'plane icon started moving about on the iPad screen! Fantastic!

Conclusion: An external GPS receiver bluetoothed to an iPad does override its internal one and you do, indeed, have to leave "Location Services" enabled!!

Thanks again!

Paul

Ton,
Many thanks for this, I had exactly this problem and solution 2 solved it.

On a slightly different topic, does anyone know of an app that will give the satellite data such as you get with Garmins and Skymaps?

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