Apparently I am in the minority here but besides the price of the iPad App, I'm not real impressed. Perhaps its because I have used the ForeFlight app for over a year but...I don't think that's the whole story.
First, I don't use the iPad in the cockpit because it's only marginially readable in my 9A when the sun is shining. My iFly 720 is far more readable and I think there's more information available on it, too. Where I do use the iPad extensively is flight planning. Two major shortcomings of the iFly app, imo are:
1. once I've completed a flight plan, I can't up load the plan to the 720. If I could do this via WiFi that would be a HUGE improvement over enter 5 or 10 way points by hand, and
2. The chart coverage is very local. Unlike FF which gives you the whole US seamlessly, I get one chart at a time with the iFly. When it comes to picking a place to land, 3 or 4 charts away, the iFly is seriously handicapped.
Let me assure everyone, I like my iFly 720 and use it every flight - this isn't sour grapes, its about what makes the product useful for me (and since it's my $$, yes, it's all about me<g>). YMMV. I was really hoping there would be a more seamless connection between the app and the iFly 720. Since there isn't, and since flight planning is so much easier in FF, they have my subscription - at least for the time being. In the cockpit, FF stays in my flight bag unless the 720 won't boot...and that hasn't happened for 5 months now.
Don