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Another Web site, iPad Pilot News by Sporty’s Pilot Shop (http://ipadpilotnews.com/2013/12/editors-choice-top- apps-2013/), provides recommendations and reviews of general aviation-focused apps for the iPad, and also supports Android. In the list below, they provide ten of their favorite (in no particular order) and you can read more about them on their Web site: 1. Weight and Balance/Performance: Gyronimo 2. Weather: WSI Pilotbrief Optima 3. NEXRAD radar: MyRadar 4. Flight Track Recording: CloudAhoy 5. Flight Tracking: FlightAware 6. Charts on a Budget: FltPlan.com Go 7. International Charts: SkyDemon 8. Flight Computer: Sporty’s E6B 9. Logbook: LogTen Pro 10. Private Pilot Training: Learn to Fly Course


11. Pilot Profi ciency: PilotWorkshops 12. Best “I Can’t Believe My iPad Can Do That” App: Cloud Topper


Rather than rehash others content, we encourage each of you to learn more about any of apps that might appeal to you.


CONCLUSION Many magazines and aviation Web sites have their own lists of recommended apps. I attempted to simply identify ideas for you to consider and research on your own, along with some background information on the tablet and apps industry niches. The market for apps is constantly changing and expanding, so any such list becomes outdated rather quickly. The part to keep in mind is that Apple is trumping its rivals at the moment in the mobile computing market, and should do so the foreseeable future. Google’s Android has a place, but it seems to be second place, and unless it changes how its hardware OEM partners utilize Android, it will never be able to grow much. Microsoft cannot be counted out due to its dominance in the enterprise and desktop/laptop markets, and even more, due to its history of being a follower and capitalizing later on the mistakes of others. But, for the next year or so, iPads will


continue to rule aviation. The fi nal installment of this series on tablets in aviation will be on security issues.


John Pawlicki is CEO and principal of OPM Research. He also works with Information Tool Designers (ITD), where he consults to the DOT’s Volpe Center, handling various technology and cyber security projects for the FAA and DHS. He managed and deployed various


products over the years, including the launch of CertiPath (with world’s fi rst commercial PKI bridge). John has also been part of industry eff orts at the ATA/A4A, AIA and other industry groups, and was involved in the eff ort to defi ne and allow the use of electronic FAA 8130-3 forms, as well as in defi ning digital identities with PKI. His recent publication, ‘Aerospace Marketplaces Report’ which analyzed third-party sites that support the trading of aircraft parts is available on OPMResearch.com as a PDF download, or a printed book version is available on Amazon.com.


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