Rjddillan,

I can not confirm what you're saying. I've flown with my iPad (iPad1 and iPad Air now since a year) and neither had any problems reading the screen nor had any overheating problems, although my aircraft is a Roland Z602, which features a glass canopy all round and above.

Regards
Eric

iOS and Android are by far the most popular operating systems for mobile devices. Windows represents a tiny fraction by comparison. It would be folly for us to divert significant development effort to making our Windows product better for navigation. Sure, it technically has most of the features of our iOS and Android versions but their presentation is much more evolved on the latter platforms.

Rjddillan, I absolutely respect your personal opinion on the deficiencies of iPads. It's just that the vast majority of our users appear to disagree.

Seems I am in a minority on this subject. I used to love iPads - now I find them irritating. Flimsy, screens keep breaking, rubbish outside, overheating, crashing. And that's just my iPads - don't get me on to the subject of my kids and iPads. Thinking about banishing them from the house. They have cost me a fortune and are the devil.

I wish apple would release a tough version with a decent screen. SD is peerless for VFR and if truth be told IFR (not that I would ever admit to having done that) so it would be terrific to see it on a proper aviation device. I'd install an EFIS if it had SD on it. Now that would be the buisness. Plan routes, file flight plans from the iPad, and upload to EFIS.

Someone told us recently that the new iPad Mini 4 includes an excellent screen, much more sunlight readable than any previous iPad. We haven't got one in the office yet though.