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I am not familiar with the Anywhere Map program, but does not sound like an aviation related speciality program better than google maps, even for a handglider. If you are flying anything, you need much, much more at a minimum. If you want everything you could imagine for flying, purchase the ifly 720, take 2-3 hours to play with it, and take off for anywhere. Everything you need except for fuel is at your fingertips.

First of all, I bought a Zenith 801 that had a panel mount Lorance 2000 that is no longer supported. I tried to use an ipad with WingX Pro. The information and capapabilities of the ipad and WingX were great but I kept having to look down at my lap and back up so much and that was not comfortable for me. Also I had to turn it on the edge to pull the stick back for landing. I needed a panel replacement, and the size of the Ifly 720 just fit the Lowrance 2000 space, except for the fact that it is a portrate space rather than a landscape space (Protrate mode is the next update I am told).

I started looking at this site. By the comments everyone was making, and not only seeing the promptness, but seeing the straight forward intuition of the people who are not only producing this device, but take their time to address comments on this forum, I ordered about 10AM one day, UPS delivered the next day.

I programmed flights, flew with it, ran it through the wringer, then decided after 2 days I would look at the manual to see if it might do something I had not thought of. I had missed a few things, not much. Everything is behind the button you would expect it to be, not hidden in a subminue off somewhere else. If you get it in your hand, you will not turn it loose.

In he beta section, many people were giving opinions of what they would like for terrain features as the ifly people were developing it. It finally came down to ifly asking what would you like (can you imagine a company asking what a customer would like?) A this, B this, C this, etc. for input. Then what they did is release their version for testing which I did not see anyone suggest or thought about that resolved many of the individual issues each promoter of a,b,c,etc had suggested.. Simply Amazing.

I then took one of their Beta versions of software out and locked it up doing a very, very tight turn very low in a cove where the forward looking terrain feature overloaded. I though I had found something they would have a hard time fixing. I posted my comments about midnight, had a reply when I first got up the next morning, sent them some sample data, and there was a revision fix ready for download that afternoon. I tried to lock it up again with 60 degree turns at 50MPH, same place, problem resolved. I have been longer than that just finding out who to talk to in tech support with other companies, much less addressing and fixing a problem.

I am not turning loose of mine, I just move it from plane to plane. It is just my opinon, but I consider my ifly Simply Amazing.

Ken N801S, N845BY, N67VG

I have both. I do development work so I have access to droid and apple tablets. I also have a lifetime subscription to anywhere map from an older and discontinued product which can be used with their freedom apps so it was a small price ($79) to pay to try it out. It has great potential, especially on the platforms being offered, but they have ALOT of ground to cover to be anything like a wingx or forflight.

As for the ifly and 720, it is essentially the best and simpliest device to fly with. I commonly use the simile of the ifly is to flying as the tomtom is to driving. You plug it in, turn it on, enter or upload you flight plan and go fly! Everything is at your fingure tips, litterally, for afd, plates, charts, etc... Add a skyradar and your get weather and supposedly traffic (still haven't seen any but it seems I stay far enough away from it to be shown). There's no real specs to compare on the 720 except that it's a dual core running windows ce. It's possible and likely the droid and apple tablets have os and processor advantages. But It does have the brightest and clearest screen of any portable device compared to any droid or apple tablet.