Meh. Get a cheaper/used Samsung Galaxy Tab 6. Decent screen, still viable and really cheap. I have one (since release) and still use it daily for everything: streaming, reading books, navigraph stuff. I got a mini keyboard with it as well.

The iphone would be too small.

I have a hard time with my steam deck sometimes later in the night in desktop mode as it is haha

Edited December 1, 20232 yr by Sonosusto

30 minutes ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

Although a couple of years ago, that is what a friend of mine was using when flying a real  Cessna.

That's either reassuring or worrying depending on which way you look at it 😄

1 minute ago, Jazz said:

That's either reassuring or worrying depending on which way you look at it 😄

HAHA

VFR flight. He was just using it as backup so it was ok.

Ron

 

 

I'd like to add to the subject of tablets. Don't go too cheap and get something with some grunt. I have a cheap tablet that came free with a phone and it's fine for checklists and such things but trying to run Navigraph on it is a painful and frustrating experience. Actually, I consider it unusable on there so it's important to have somehhing with a fair amount of processing power. Navigraph is quite complex these days.

As I previously said, I actually prefer to run it on a small laptop myself but decent tablets with a large enough screen really have no trouble at all with it.

You can always use a second monitor, they are cheap now a days.

I have an ipad (9th gen 10.2 64gb)  and most of the time I end up using my second monitor, but if you plan to use the ipad for other stuff besides navigrah, then get it, it is worth every penny, I spend $230 on mine.

Edited December 1, 20232 yr by CarlosF

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Edited December 1, 20232 yr by CarlosF

40 minutes ago, Jazz said:

I'd like to add to the subject of tablets. Don't go too cheap and get something with some grunt. I have a cheap tablet that came free with a phone and it's fine for checklists and such things but trying to run Navigraph on it is a painful and frustrating experience. Actually, I consider it unusable on there so it's important to have somehhing with a fair amount of processing power. Navigraph is quite complex these days.

As I previously said, I actually prefer to run it on a small laptop myself but decent tablets with a large enough screen really have no trouble at all with it.

I use a 6 year old Samsung 8 inch A2 Tablet. It has a 1.9GHz quad-core CPU and 32 GB Ram.

It use it for Navigraph charts and also dock the PMDG 737 FMC to it using Fergo (not at the same time, obviously!).

I don't really know what specs put a tablet into the "grunt" category but this old Samsung runs those two apps without issues.

 

 

Edited December 1, 20232 yr by Noell
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2 hours ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

And yet he is just deciding to take simming to the next level.

hmmmm.

Sorry Ron, Jazz is right....

 

I have a super hardware set up which I only upgraded to last year now I can afford it...

 

On this occasion next level is a tablet for charts etc....pretty much complete then..

7 hours ago, davenicoll said:

1) What is the best tablet/memory size available...I would assume I do not need the latest iPad

2) Which is best for simming Navigraph or foreflight. I am not a real world pilot but do like to make my simming as close as possible.

1.  Most pilots like the size of the iPad Mini in the real aircraft, so that is what I use.  I also use a Samsung Tab 7s tablet for Navigraph.

I like to use Garmin Pilot for simming as that is used real world, as is Foreflight. I use xmapsys to feed Garmin Pilot with positional & traffic data from MSFS.

Navigraph is excellent, but it is not 'as close as possible' to real world. However, I use it on every flight alongside Garmin Pilot.

Although Garmin Pilot and Foreflight are more expensive, I feel the expense is well worth it.

Edited December 1, 20232 yr by MrBitstFlyer

1 hour ago, Noell said:

I use a 6 year old Samsung 8 inch A2 Tablet. It has a 1.9GHz quad-core CPU and 32 GB Ram.

I'm pretty sure that tablet doesn't have 32GB RAM. 😜

You bet it doesn't!! Should have said 3 GB.

Thanks for noticing the error and pointing it out.