What's the best approved chart for Ipod?

[beeryboats]

My lovely wife gave me the latest Ipod for Christmas. What is the best approved chart app?

[kmach]

I use foreflight and like it

[Av8r3400]

I'm a big fan of Garmin Pilot. Add a Garmin GLO and you have a great system.

[David McCormick]

Fore flight

[Marvk7]

I like Wing X. Most allow a 30 day trial. Try them all.

[DanB]

Wing X was the one I decided on. This was over a year ago, but at that time...it was the only one that operated "track up". It was just what I liked. I use it on my I Pad and works very well. I tried out a few of them using the free trial...try them all on and see which one fits.

[Av8r3400]

Most allow a 30 day trial. Try them all.

++1 This is the best advise you will get over this entire thread! Don't take any of our word for it-- Try them all!

[Danh]

I am using the Garmin Pilot and like it I do not have the glo

[beeryboats]

Now the second half of the question. Has anyone had any issues with the feds using an Ipad chart? The gent I talked to told me he always kept a chart in the airplane "just in case". I don't know if he was talking about an Ipad "crash" or a ramp check.

I'm a little rusty, but I remember learning "ARROW" while I was learning to fly. Now I've read that one of the "R"'s is no longer needed. The radio license is no longer needed. But from what I remember just the Airworthy cert, registration, owners manual, and weight and balance were mandatory to keep in the aircraft.

[Danzer1]

No requirement unless you are large AND turbojet and/or part 135 or part 121 and/or IFR.

However; lets say you violate a restricted airspace or hit a newly constructed obstruction, because it wasn't shown on an outdated chart or you had no chart - then the outdated chart or no chart could be considered a contributing factor in an enforcement action (IE: different and bigger problems).

So, (IMHO) always a good idea to have current reference (that you can comfortably rely on - with the FAA) or a very good memory of everything in the airspace you will travel in. Needless to say, I carry a few charts just in case. My brains just not that good!

If anything, it just eliminates on more possibility of a "contributing factor" statement - that all insurance carriers read as "pilot stupidity".

Greg