For over a year now I have been running SD on an original iPad and enjoying the benefits of such a good piece of software.

However, I'm now using the latest version of the iPad SD (late Dec release) on the same iPad with iOS 5.1.1 and have found that the SD software constantly crashes out on me. I've tried this on the ground and in air, only to find the same results. Whether I'm in plan mode or GPS navigation mode, it just keeps on happening!

I've restarted the iPad, shutdown all other apps -- all to no avail. On today's flight in MVFR the longest that I managed to keep SD running in Navigation Mode was about 5 minutes and the shortest time was 15 seconds. According to the logs I have about 20 flights logged in the space of 90 minutes, mainly from "unknown to "unknown" , as I tried to restart SD in mid flight.

SD is a fantastic piece of software but I'm not able to rely on this latest iPad release whereas in the previous version I may have experienced a crash on the odd occasion and was happy to live with that.

I've be thinking about purchasing the iPad mini but will be putting that on hold and returning to the Navsgo as my main SD device. What a shame as SD and iPad ae made for each other.

Is anybody else experiencing the same problems?





Biggles -- EGKB

Used latest version in anger for first yesterday, it is crashed-out on me 3 or 4 times - once soon after getting airborne. Wasn't quite as bad as 'a few seconds', more like 10-20 mins or more (I did close the cover a few times). I wondered if it had reverted to a demo mode, but then it ran fine for the last 4 hours of the flight.

However, it is rather annoying that track logs are constantly broken up; For yesterday's flight alone, I have 19 different logs! A couple are very short (2 seconds!), longest is 1hr36. This long one records the max alt as NaN, the max speed as 151kts, and the average speed as 0.6kts (recorded distance only 1.3nm)!!! When asking for breadcrumbs, it warns that two points were recorded 1hr36mins appart, so this track log only managed two or three points!

I'm running iOS 6.