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Re: Navigation App for iPad
[Re: rhans]
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05/05/2018 11:40 PM
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Posts: 61 San Antonio, TX
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I like to use all available tools. Paper charts, Navionics and eyeballs for me...
Tom C.
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Re: Navigation App for iPad
[Re: casailor53]
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05/06/2018 01:59 PM
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None. Paper charts and your eyes. casailor 53 and rhans: Given that boat chartplotters and backup apps on devices also require the use of "eyes", what is your rationale for not using electronic assistance in addition to paper charts? I n your land based vehicles, do you use GPS units and/or cell phone apps or do you rely solely on Rand McNally atlases and road maps? If you use electronics in your car / truck / motorhome, then why not do so on the water?
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Re: Navigation App for iPad
[Re: sail445]
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05/06/2018 02:48 PM
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casailor53
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except that someday those satellites are gonna fall outta the sky...you need to keep up the old skills...and if you started boating in the GPS age, you need to learn them anyway
Last edited by casailor53; 05/06/2018 02:53 PM.
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Re: Navigation App for iPad
[Re: aarpskier]
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05/06/2018 02:49 PM
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too many people get wrapped up staring at screens...I didn't say I don't use a GPS, but pretty much never in the BVI...and no, I don't use electronics for nav in the car
Last edited by casailor53; 05/06/2018 02:52 PM.
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Re: Navigation App for iPad
[Re: casailor53]
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05/06/2018 03:12 PM
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sail445
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except that someday those satellites are gonna fall outta the sky...you need to keep up the old skills...and if you started boating in the GPS age, you need to learn them anyway
As a matter of fact if we go to war in our country they’ll shutdown the GPS and all aids to navigation and street signs on land. I really like Imrays plastic charts which I use in my cockpit with a thin sheet of plexi glass over them held down with bungee cords and a black crayon marker to put an X on my GPS position every hour or so.
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